Today, President Trump continued his attack on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by signing a new executive order which undermines state regulations and ACA protections. Trump’s new executive order could open loopholes that draw younger and healthier people to bare-bones plans, destabilizing the marketplace, inflating costs for ACA participants and undermining protections for people with…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump today signed an executive order that would allow religious organizations to endorse political candidates and expand participation in politics. The executive order signed today also enables private employers to use religion as a pretext to deny reproductive health care to their employees. “Faith is deeply embedded into the history of…
WASHINGTON — Today, the Human Rights Campaign joined other LGBTQ organizations, civil rights leaders and hundreds of supporters in front of the White House to rally and speak out against Trump’s #LicenseToDiscriminate Executive Order that would put millions of LGBTQ Americans at risk. Yesterday, Politico first reported that Donald Trump is planning to sign his…
President Donald Trump is expected to sign a religious exemptions executive order this Thursday. Politico reports that Trump has invited conservative leaders to the White House on that day for what they expect will be the ceremonial signing of a long-awaited—and highly controversial—executive order on religious liberty. Earlier this year, a leaked draft of this discriminatory…
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Gov. McAuliffe today issued Executive Order 61, which will advance the cause of equality in Virginia by requiring all future state contractors with the Executive Branch to agree to a non-discrimination policy that includes discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. This action builds on Executive Order Number 1 by extending…
Today, House Republicans defeated a motion in the U.S. House of Representatives to safeguard President Obama’s executive order protecting LGBT employees of federal contractors from discrimination. During consideration of a bill to require federal agencies to cut costs by eliminating existing regulations, Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) offered a procedural motion to exempt regulations implementing the…
WASHINGTON, DC, — President Obama plans to issue a new executive order that would help reduce employment discrimination against formerly incarcerated people applying for federal government jobs. Earlier this year, the National LGBTQ Task Force sent a letter along with a dozen organizations urging the president to eliminate the requirement from job applicants to check off a…
NEW YORK – Major achievements have been made in the domestic HIV/AIDS response as a result of increased realignment and coordination of efforts at the federal level. However, that level of consistent coordination and alignment has yet to take place in most states. In an effort to identify what needs to be done, amfAR, The Foundation…
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback today issued Executive Order 15-05, “Preservation and Protection of Religious Freedom,” protecting the religious freedom of Kansas clergy and religious organizations. EO 15-05 prohibits state government from taking any discriminatory action against any “individual clergy or religious leader,” or any “religious organization” that chooses not to participate in a marriage that…
Today, President Obama’s Executive Order on LGBT Workplace Discrimination went into effect. This executive order prohibits federal contractors and subcontractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. For the first time, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people employed by federal contractors will have the right to be judged by the quality…
