--- title: Congressional Black Caucus Rejects Donald Trump Meeting description: The Congressional Black Caucus turned down a meeting with President Donald Trump Wednesday out of frustration with the Administration canonical: https://time.com/4827482/cbc-black-caucus-letter-donald-trump/ author: Aric Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-21T21:20:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:15:30.684Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read the Congressional Black Caucus' Letter Rejecting a Meeting With Trump og:description: The caucus wrote that Trump had taken "steps that will affirmatively hurt Black communities" og:url: https://time.com/4827482/cbc-black-caucus-letter-donald-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt854b0b99ae4e67b3/6988d2bdbc6cfc74193e1f0b/congessional-black-caucus-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-TRUMP-BLACK CAUCUS og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read the Congressional Black Caucus' Letter Rejecting a Meeting With Trump twitter:description: The caucus wrote that Trump had taken "steps that will affirmatively hurt Black communities" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt854b0b99ae4e67b3/6988d2bdbc6cfc74193e1f0b/congessional-black-caucus-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read the Congressional Black Caucus' Letter Rejecting a Meeting With President Trump by [Aric Jenkins](https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Jun 21, 2017 9:20 PM UTC  US President Donald Trump (C) meets with the Congressional Black Caucus Executive Committee at the White House in Washington, DC, March 22, 2017 US President Donald Trump (C) meets with the Congressional Black Caucus Executive Committee at the White House in Washington, DC, March 22, 2017JIM WATSON—AFP/Getty Images by [Aric Jenkins](https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Jun 21, 2017 9:20 PM UTC The Congressional Black Caucus turned down a meeting with President [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4825917/trump-hire-new-staff/) Wednesday out of frustration with his administration’s previous failures to address the agenda of the group, its constituents, and [black Americans](http://time.com/4823524/gun-violence-black-children-study/) as a whole. In a letter addressed directly to Trump, [obtained by Politico](http://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015c-cc29-da41-a37e-df79b86c0001), CBC Chair Cedric Richmond (D-La.) wrote that the President had ignored the requests of the caucus since their March 22 meeting and that policies the White House is pursuing will endanger the well-being of African-Americans. “\[W\]e have seen no evidence that your Administration acted on our calls for action, and we have in fact witnessed steps that will affirmatively hurt Black communities,” CBC Chair Cedric Richmond (D-VA) said. “While we agreed to explore possible future discussions when we first met, it has become abundantly clear that a conversation with the entire CBC would not be entirely productive, given the actions taken by your Administration since our first meeting.” You can read the CBC’s letter to Trump in full below: [Congressional Black Caucus Trump Letter](https://www.scribd.com/document/351932751/Congressional-Black-Caucus-Trump-Letter#from%5Fembed) by [Mathew Katz](https://www.scribd.com/user/290502639/Mathew-Katz#from%5Fembed) on Scribd ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4827482/cbc-black-caucus-letter-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4827482/cbc-black-caucus-letter-donald-trump/"},"headline":"Read the Congressional Black Caucus' Letter Rejecting a Meeting With President Trump","datePublished":"2017-06-21T21:20:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:15:30.684Z","description":"The caucus wrote that Trump had taken \"steps that will affirmatively hurt Black communities\"","url":"https://time.com/4827482/cbc-black-caucus-letter-donald-trump/","keywords":["Congress","White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt854b0b99ae4e67b3/6988d2bdbc6cfc74193e1f0b/congessional-black-caucus-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Aric Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt854b0b99ae4e67b3/6988d2bdbc6cfc74193e1f0b/congessional-black-caucus-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-POLITICS-TRUMP-BLACK CAUCUS","caption":"US-POLITICS-TRUMP-BLACK CAUCUS","creditText":"JIM WATSON—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/congress/","name":"Congress"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4827482/cbc-black-caucus-letter-donald-trump/","name":"Read the Congressional Black Caucus' Letter Rejecting a Meeting With President Trump"}}]}] ```