Press Releases

DWC Calls on Trump to Stop Dismantling the Programs and Services That Allow Women to Thrive and Grow Their Families; Pursue Policies that Actually Help Women Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) led 38 Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) members in sending President Trump a letter blasting his proposals to “get women to have more babies” while dismantling services and… Read more »

April 14, 2025CONTACT:  Lizzie Johnson, lizzie.johnson@mail.house.gov (DWC)  Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) members Ilhan Omar (MN-05) & Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) and Servicewomen, Women Veterans, and Military Families Task Force Chair Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06) led 48 DWC members in a letter to U.S Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer urging her… Read more »

Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) and Vice Chairs Hillary Scholten (MI-03) and Emilia Sykes (OH-13) released the below statement condemning House Republicans’ passage of their so-called SAVE Act. “Trump and Republicans’ SAVE Act is a direct attack on women’s ability to register to vote. Republicans’ requirement to… Read more »

Democratic Women’s Caucus Policy Task Force Co-Chairs Sydney Kamlager Dove (CA-37) and Deborah Ross (NC-02) led 30 members in a letter to President Trump calling on him to stop his persistent attacks on women’s health research. As part of their demand to stop the attack on women’s health research, the Members called on the administration to remove a cap on indirect… Read more »

Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03), and Policy Task Force Co-Chairs Deborah Ross (NC-02) and Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) led 18 of their colleagues in sending a letter to President Trump expressing their grave concerns with his Anti-Voter Executive Order and demanding he revoke it.The Executive Order signed by President Trump on March 25 is… Read more »

CONTACT:  lizzie.johnson@mail.house.gov (DWC) April 3, 2025 Democratic Women’s Caucus Reproductive Health Care Task Force Chair & Liaison Judy Chu (CA-28), Reproductive Freedom Caucus Co-Chairs Diana DeGette (CO-01) & Ayanna Pressley (MA-07),  Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03), Reproductive Freedom Caucus Vice… Read more »

Today, Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (D-NM), Member Services Task Force Co-Chair Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), and Committee on Education & Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA), led 236 colleagues in a letter to President Donald Trump in response to his unprecedented and unlawful… Read more »

Democratic Women’s Caucus members 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 (CA-37) led 49 of their colleagues in sending a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson expressing their grave concerns with the SAVE Act and demanding he does not to… Read more »

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 (CA-37) sent a letter to President Trump and Acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA) Mr. Leland Dudek demanding that they reinstate… Read more »

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 (CA-37) sent a letter to President Trump demanding that he end his see-saw tariff policies that are raising costs for women and families. Tariffs, when used… Read more »