Washington, DC —  A coalition led by Get Free, a GenZ and Millennial-led movement organization that recently led civil disobedience at the Office of Management and Budget protesting Trump Administration attacks on pro-equality efforts called on Congress today to use every tool at their disposal to block, delay, and reject all legislation and all Trump Administration orders attacking diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and attempting to take away hard-won civil rights. Additional signatories include organizations like the American Federation of Teachers AFL-CIO, NAACP Youth & College, United We Dream, and Sunrise Movement.

In a letter to Senator Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the groups called MAGA’s anti-DEI attacks “a trojan horse to take away our civil rights…and to drag us back to a time when only wealthy, white men called the shots.” 

The coalition called on Schumer and Jeffries to lead Senate and House opposition and defend and deepen our freedoms by directing their caucuses to: 

• use every tool at your disposal to block, delay, and reject all legislative and executive attacks on our civil rights, including bringing the chambers to a halt until the Trump Administration withdraws its authoritarian power grabs 
• advance legislation that defends and deepens our freedom to learn, be ourselves, and protest, and champion policies that create real equality by rectifying historical discrimination and repairing ongoing inequalities.

View the letter and the full list of endorsing organizations here.

“We are in a fight for our freedoms and we need our leaders in Congress to be fighters. Since taking federal office, the MAGA regime has banned diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, attempted to abolish birthright citizenship, and unraveled longstanding civil rights protections in the workforce so they can drag us back to a time when wealthy, white men called all the shots, “said Nicole Carty, Executive Director of Get Free. “The Trump Administration is spreading false claims against DEI to justify resegregating our country. We need Sen. Schumer and Rep. Jeffries to use every tool at their disposal to refuse to comply with MAGA’s attacks on our civil rights. It’s time for our leaders to show they are serious about defending and deepening our freedoms, not stand idly by while the MAGA regime bolsters white supremacy and wipes out generations of progress toward equality.”