Democratic Women’s Caucus members led by Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03), Vice Chairs Emilia Sykes (OH-13) and Hillary Scholten (MI-03), and Policy Task Force Co-Chairs Deborah Ross (NC-02), and Sydney Kamlager-Dove, led 44 DWC members in a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to demand that the workers the Trump administration fired from the Office… Read more »
**Livestream link HERE**TODAY, Tuesday, March 4, leaders from the Democratic Women’s Caucus, including Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-05), DWC Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03), DWC Vice Chair Emilia Sykes (OH-13), DWC Vice Chair Hillary Scholten (MI-03), and DWC Policy Task Force Co-Chair Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) and Sarah Wroblewski, parent of Declan, a four year… Read more »
TODAY, Tuesday, March 4, the Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) announced dozens of members will wear pink and focus on Trump’s betrayal of America’s women in favor of billionaires in their rebuttal to President Trump’s Joint Address tonight. Many members will also bring guests directly impacted by Trump and Republicans’ betrayal of women and… Read more »
Today, Friday February 28, Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) joined an amicus brief led by Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee Maxine Waters (CA-43) in conjunction with House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08), Assistant Leader Joe Neguse (CO-02), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee Jamie Raskin (MD-08), and the… Read more »
Yesterday, Tuesday, February 25, Republicans passed a budget resolution with more than $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid that will destroy programs that support women and families. They are cutting health care and nutrition for women and children so that they can give $4.5 trillion in tax breaks to billionaire donors and big corporations. Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair… Read more »
Please see here data compiled by the House Committee on the Budget about the ways that the Republican budget resolution will harm women and families in every community across America. Read more »
CONTACT: Lizzie Johnson, lizzie.johnson@mail.house.gov (DWC) Clara Benice, clara.benice@mail.house.gov (Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick)Lauren McIlvaine, Lauren.mcilvaine@mail.house.gov (Rep. Jacobs) Democratic Women’s Caucus Global Women’s Issues Task Force Chair Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-20) and Member Services Task Force Co-Chair Rep. Sara Jacobs (CA-51)… Read more »
Members said programs on chopping block are not waste, they’re lifelines for women and families.On Friday, February 7, leaders from the Democratic Women’s Caucus hosted a press conference to address the constant attacks on women and families by President Trump, Republicans, and Elon Musk since January 20. DWC Vice Chair Hillary Scholten (MI-03), Communications Task… Read more »
CONTACT: DWC: Lizzie Johnson, lizzie.johnson@mail.house.gov 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… Read more »
DWC: Lizzie Johnson, lizzie.johnson@mail.house.govToday, Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) and Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Mark Takano (CA-39) 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:“Today, on… Read more »
