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Congressman Gerald E. Connolly (VA-11), the Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), the Ranking Member of the Committee on Education and Workforce, issued the following statement on President Trump’s union busting Executive Order:   “This executive order is another example of the Trump-Musk Administration’s war on… Read more »

The top House Democrats on military, intelligence, foreign affairs and government affairs oversight committees are demanding answers from senior Trump administration officials on the leak of secret attack plans on Iranian-backed militants in Yemen by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The release of national security secrets occurred when Trump administration officials included Jeffrey… Read more »

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to reinstate tens of thousands of fired federal employees across six agencies, calling their terminations “unlawful.” U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that the Trump administration must immediately reinstate all of the probationary employees it fired from the departments of Defense, Treasury, Agriculture, Energy,… Read more »

The top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is skipping President Trump’s speech to Congress on Tuesday night. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), who represents a large number of government employees and federal contractors, said he’ll boycott the address “in solidarity” with those workers who have been laid off as part of the federal firing blitz that’s been a… Read more »

Rep. Gerry Connolly, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, plans to investigate Washington’s top prosecutor for making threats against the Trump administration’s political adversaries — including one of his own members. In a letter shared first with POLITICO, Connolly, a Virginia lawmaker, announced he was leading the minority party in a probe against… Read more »

House Democrats are pressing every major agency head in Washington to reject the recent demand from Elon Musk that federal workers must detail their recent work accomplishments or be fired. More than 100 Democrats endorsed a Monday letter to the leaders of 24 federal agencies characterizing Musk’s missive — and a subsequent memo from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)… Read more »

The Treasury Department’s Office of Inspector General on Friday said it was launching an audit of the security controls for the federal government’s payment system, as Democratic lawmakers raised red flags about the access provided to Trump aide Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team. The audit will also review the past two years of the system’s transactions as it relates… Read more »

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) on Thursday knocked President Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk over what he called a new McCarthy Era for government employees. “It really is sort of like the McCarthy Era 2.0 [for a lot of] federal employees and for all of us as well, so, but they’re standing up and they’re being heard, and I think that’s a hopeful sign that … Elon Musk and Donald Trump… Read more »

A fiery group of about a dozen congressional Democrats blasted Elon Musk and President Donald Trump on Monday afternoon outside of USAID’s headquarters amid their attempts to shut down the overseas funding agency, claiming the rapidly unfolding events are causing chaos and harming national security. The Democrats called the actions against USAID “illegal” and a “constitutional crisis”… Read more »

Two key Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday demanded more information after the Trump administration abruptly fired career prosecutors who investigated President Donald Trump, and reassigned others from their positions to a newly created "sanctuary city" working group. In a letter to Acting Attorney General James McHenry, House Judiciary Committee ranking Democrat… Read more »