Federal Workforce

Washington, D.C. (June 6, 2025)—Today, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, Acting Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, submitted a comment letter urging Charles Ezell, Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), to rescind the agency’s proposed rule to reclassify 50,000 federal employees under a new version of Schedule F.  This reclassification ends the civil service protections that prevent federal employees from being fired for political reasons, allowing the Trump Administration and DOGE to continue their devastating purge of America’s nonpartisan, expert federal workforce that has already upended the delivery of vital services to Americans.

Washington, D.C. (June 4, 2025)— Today, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch,  Acting Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick following reports received by Committee Democrats that illegally fired employees were denied health coverage for which they had already paid and that Commerce did not honor its required commitment to continue employee health coverage for a 31-day period after their termination.

WASHINGTON, DC –  In response to the Trump Administration's unprecedented purge of tens of thousands of federal workers without cause, Acting Ranking Member on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Rep. Stephen F. Lynch (MA-08), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on FSGG Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations Rep. Kweisi Mfume (MD-07), and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Delivering On Government Efficiency (DOGE) Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) led more than 30 Democrats in sending a letter to Comptroller General of the United States Gene L. Dodaro calling on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to provide Congress with regular updates on how the Trump Administration's personnel actions are affecting the federal workforce.

Washington, D.C. (May 14, 2025)— Today, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch and Rep. Steny Hoyer, the Ranking Member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, hosted a roundtable with major federal employee groups and civil service organizations to coordinate action against the Republican Budget’s House Oversight Reconciliation provisions that steal earned wages, benefits, and retirement security from federal workers to subsidize tax giveaways to billionaires.  Republicans’ budget includes provisions to steal earned retirement benefits, decrease the take home pay of existing and new federal employees, claw back already-promised retirement payments, and force new federal employees to choose between being subject to President Trump’s political purges of the federal workforce or receiving a smaller paycheck for their entire career.

Washington, D.C. (May 1, 2025)—Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Charles Ezell, Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), opposing OPM’s plan to strip civil servants of protections to escalate the Administration’s political purge of the civil service.