Democrats Demand Hearing on EEOC Demographic Data Reporting Pull

The Democratic leaders of a House committee called for the head of the EEOC to publicly explain the agency’s proposal to rescind decades-old requirements for employers to report race and gender data.

House Education and the Workforce Committee ranking member Bobby Scott (Va.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minn.) called for an oversight hearing with Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Andrea Lucas, a Republican, to examine the agency’s fiscal year 2027 budget request. The pair wants her to explain “troubling actions taken over the past year to advance the political directives of the Trump Administration at the expense of workers who ...