Little Substance From Trump, CBC Meeting

On March 22, members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), including U.S. Rep. Anthony Brown of Prince George’s County, met with President Trump at the White House. Little, if anything, of substance came out of gathering. The only Baltimore-Washington area representative at the meeting was Brown, parliamentarian of the CBC. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) met with the president on March 8. While D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) hasn’t met with Trump yet, she attended the groundbreaking of his downtown Washington hotel on July 23, 2014, when he was a private citizen. Brown attended the meeting with U.S. Reps. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), who serves as Assistant Democratic Leader for the U.S. House of Representatives; CBC Chairman Cedric Richmond (D-La.); Andre Carson (D-Ind.); Brenda Lawrence (D-Mich.); Gwen Moore (D-Wisc.); and Karen Bass (D-Calif.). During the meeting, Richmond discussed the “We Have a Lot to Lose: Solutions to Advance Black Families in the 21st century,” a document outlining America’s Black history, CBC history, and details on policy solutions that face Blacks.