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February 10, 2025
Today, the Congressional Equality Caucus is announcing the 191 U.S. Representatives who have joined the Congressional Equality Caucus for the 119th Congress, the most members the Caucus has ever had at the start of a Congress, and making it the largest caucus in the House:
February 7, 2025
Today, the leaders of the Congressional Equality Caucus (CEC), Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC), Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), and the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), released the following statements highlighting how President Trump has spent his first three weeks in office undermining civil rights protections and enforcement for workers:
February 5, 2025
Today, Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Takano (CA-39) and Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) released the following statements after President Trump issued an Executive Order that seeks to ban trans girls and women from participating in girls and women’s sports:
February 5, 2025
Today, Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Takano (CA-39), Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-08), and Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (VA-11) sent a letter to Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Acting Director Charles Ezell, calling on OPM to halt implementation of the anti-trans Executive Order 14168, including by rescinding a January 29, 2025 memorandum on how to carry out the Order:
February 5, 2025
Three House Democrats including Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Mark Takano (Calif.) issued a letter on Wednesday urging the Office of Personnel Management to not implement President Donald Trump’s anti-trans executive order, “Defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government.”
February 1, 2025
Today, Rep. Mark Takano (CA-39), Chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, released the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s censorship of transgender-inclusive and other LGBTQI+ resources across the federal government:
January 29, 2025
Today, Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Takano (CA-39) made the following statement after President Trump issued an Executive Order targeting LGBTQI+ education and students:
January 28, 2025
Today, Equality Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Takano (CA-39) made the following statement after President Trump issued an Executive Order to target medically necessary health care for transgender individuals under 19 years of age:
January 28, 2025
Today, Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Takano (CA-39) released the following statement after President Trump issued an Executive Order that would effectively ban transgender people from serving in the United States military:
January 20, 2025
Today, Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Takano (CA-39) released the following statement after President Trump issued several anti-LGBTQI+ Executive Orders on his first day back in office: