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Black Enterprise: Congressional Black Caucus Stands Behind Rep. Al Green After Censure

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Read article here.  After 10 Democrats voted with the Republican Party to censure Rep. Al Green (D-TX), the Congressional Black Caucus is backing him and the intent behind his protest. According to The Hill, Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY), the chair of the CBC, indicated in comments on March 7 that the Caucus is standing against the Republican Party’s attempts to gut social…

Forbes: Congressional Black Caucus Lays Foundation For Movement Following Trump’s Joint Address

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Read article here.  Who is the leading the resistance on Capitol Hill? That is the question we wanted to answer before a second-term President Donald J. Trump delivered his first address before a joint session of Congress. On the evening of March 4, the Congressional Black Caucus —representing 60 members of the U.S. House of Representatives—held a gathering…

USA Today: 'Don't mess with Medicaid': Texas lawmaker's final message to Trump before dying at 70

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Read article here.  A new Democratic lawmaker had a message for Donald Trump about cutting Medicaid for everyday Americans that he shared widely before the president's Tuesday night primetime speech. A few hours later, 70-year-old Texas Rep. Sylvester Turner - who had recently struggled to overcome bone cancer - had died. The cause of death is not yet known for…

USA Today: Some Black congressional lawmakers boycott or walk out of Trump's address in protest

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Read article here.  Several members of the Congressional Black Caucus walked out of President Donald Trump’s address to Congress Tuesday or boycotted the speech altogether. “There's a MAGA fest, a MAGA rally going on in the House chambers,’’ Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said soon after leaving the chamber as Trump…

The Hill: CBC calls Trump suspension of USDA 1890 Scholars program ‘outrageous’

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Read article here.  The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is calling on President Trump to reinstate an education program designed to support students from rural and underserved communities pursuing degrees in agriculture and related fields at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) indefinitely suspended the 1890 Scholarship…

Fox News: Black Caucus chair accuses Trump of 'purge' of 'minority' federal workers

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Congressional Black Caucus Chair Yvette Clarke has accused President Donald Trump of trying to "purge" non-White workers from the federal government. "Our republic’s president, Donald Trump, chose to address a nation in mourning with only fiction and White supremacist ideologies," Clarke said during a Friday press conference in Brooklyn, New York. "Yesterday, he spun…

The Grio: Black leaders condemn Trump’s ‘racist’ remarks which blamed DEI for D.C. plane-helicopter crash

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By GERREN KEITH GAYNOR Members of the Congressional Black Caucus swiftly condemned the president's remarks in which he suggested diversity hiring was to blame for the deadly collision, and he took shots at Obama and Biden. Black elected officials are condemning President Donald Trump‘s remarks on Thursday in which he blamed DEI hiring for the deadly Washington,…

Washington Post: Congressional Black Caucus: Trump blaming DEI programs for crash is ‘truly disgusting’

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By Praveena Somasundaram The Congressional Black Caucus condemned President Donald Trump’s attempt to blame the Federal Aviation Administration’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs for the D.C. plane crash, describing his remarks as a “truly disgusting and disgraceful display of racist political prognostication.” In a statement Thursday, the caucus said Trump…