Hageman’s House Caucus Aims to Root Out Woke Agenda in Government

A group of lawmakers are working to uncover the radical Left’s woke agenda that had wormed its way into nearly every corner of the federal government under the Biden administration.  

Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs were embraced under the previous administration, but the Anti-Woke Caucus is exposing how these “insidious theories have infiltrated so much of our government so that we can start pulling them out,” Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., told The Daily Signal at the Conservative Political Action Conference just outside Washington, D.C., in Oxon Hill, Md., on Saturday.  

Hageman chairs the Anti-Woke Caucus, a group she says is targeting the “social justice-type nonsense” in America’s schools, medical system, and beyond.  

“I’m very excited to be working with the president of the United States and his administration to pursue a policy that gets back to our constitutional foundation, which is equality, which is about a colorblind society, which is that everybody in this country has an opportunity, being the land of opportunity,” she said.  

In the same way the Department of Government Efficiency under Elon Musk is working to root out waste in the federal government, the Anti-Woke Caucus is uncovering the radical Left’s agenda for the government and society.  

The Anti-Woke Caucus was founded in 2023 under the leadership of then Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana, now a senator, before Hageman took over it leadership reins this year.  

Hageman is also working to restore the U.S. government to be that which the Founders intended through her leadership of the Article One Task Force, which operates under the Republican Study Committee.  

The Article One Task Force, according to Hageman, is focused on “reclaiming the authority of the legislative branch,” the Wyoming lawmaker said.  

Article One of the Constitution is dedicated to explaining the role and powers of the legislative branch, but over the past 60 or 70 years, Hageman says the powers of the executive branch have expanded and began “taking over much of the legislating that goes on in this country through rulemaking.”  

Lawmaking power is intended to flow only through the House and Senate, and through the work of the Article One Task Force, Hageman is working to return the federal government to that standard laid out by the Founders in the Constitution.  

Returning the power of lawmaking solely to the legislature also requires Congress to draft laws in a way that is specific and does not leave room for creative interpretation, as has often been the case, according to Hageman.  

“I’m trying to make us better legislators, better practitioners of the legislative art, so that we actually are the ones that are legislating, rather than the executive branch,” she said. 

Take the Clean Air Act, for example, Hageman said, that gives the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency the rulemaking authority necessary to carry out the intent of the act.  

“You can drive a Mack truck through that. That is horrible language,” Hageman said.  

This kind of “legislative malpractice” is what the Article One Task Force is working to prevent, and “the president gets this,” she said. “The president is identifying the problems with these administrative agencies, even though he oversees them. And it’s why he is, I think, going to be one of the very best presidents that we ever had.”  

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