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September 17, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC – Ahead of today’s House Appropriations Committee markup of Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) funding legislation, Rep. Judy Chu (CA-28) and Senator Mazie Hirono (HI) led a bicameral letter to stop Republican lawmakers from reinstating the China Initiative, which unfairly targeted and profiled Chinese American and Chinese researchers and scholars.


September 11, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Chairs of the Congressional Tri-Caucus—Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) Chair Rep. Grace Meng (NY-06), Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chair Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), and Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chair Rep.


September 11, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the House Appropriations Committee advanced a key spending bill that includes language to reinstate the “China Initiative,” a now-defunct program within the Department of Justice that purported to combat espionage but in effect targeted and profiled researchers of Chinese descent. 


September 6, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) and Georgia’s Congressional Delegation issued the following joint statement today in response to an immigration raid at a manufacturing site in Ellabell, Georgia — the largest single site enforcement operation in the history of Homeland Security Investigations:


August 22, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on National Security, Department of State and Related Programs, and Rep. Young Kim (R-CA), along with U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) announced today that they wrote a bipartisan letter to President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging the administration to prioritize the reunification of Korean American families with their relatives in North Korea.


August 15, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC – Reps. Judy Chu (CA-28), Grace Meng (NY-06), and Juan Vargas (CA-52) led 58 of their colleagues in a letter to the Trump administration demanding answers regarding its rollback of language access across federal agencies.


July 21, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the leadership of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) issued a joint statement condemning the Department of Justice’s new memorandum that slashes access to multilingual government services: 

“Everyone deserves full and equal access to federal programs, no matter what language they speak. Yet President Trump is determined to strip multilingual services away from millions of immigrants and people with limited English proficiency under the guise of ‘national unity.’ 


July 18, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Rep. Grace Meng (NY-06) issued the following statement after House Republicans passed President Trump's rescissions package: