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Ranking Member Connolly’s Statement on Mass Firings at HHS

March 27, 2025

Washington, D.C. (March 27, 2025)— Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement after U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced he would be eliminating 10,000 employees in the Trump Administration’s latest attack on the civil service.

Subcommittees

119th Congress

Issues: Administration Federal Workforce Health Care

Subcommittee Ranking Member Mfume’s Remarks on Resolution of Inquiry into Trump and Musk’s Purge of Federal Workers

March 25, 2025

Press Release

Washington, D.C. (March 25, 2025)— Watch Subcommittee on Government Operations Ranking Member Mfume’s remarks on his Resolution of Inquiry to investigate the Trump-Musk Administration’s unprecedented attacks on federal workers and their efforts to embed political loyalists willing to turn a blind eye to corruption and grift.

Subcommittees

119th Congress

Issues: Administration Congress Ethics and Transparency Federal Workforce

Democratic Leaders Demand Reversal of Unlawful EEOC Commissioner Firings

March 25, 2025

Press Release

Washington, D.C. (March 25, 2025)—Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, Ranking Member of the Committee on Education and Workforce, and Rep.

Subcommittees

119th Congress

Issues: Federal Workforce

During Sunshine Week, Ranking Member Connolly Demands Transparency on DOGE Officials Double-Dipping and Conflicts of Interest with Outside Employment

March 19, 2025

Press Release

Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, wrote a letter to Amy Gleason, the supposed “Acting Administrator” of DOGE, calling for much-needed transparency into the DOGE workforce, their potential conflicts of interest, and possible ethics violations.

Subcommittees

119th Congress

Issues: Ethics and Transparency Federal Workforce

BREAKING: Ranking Member Connolly’s Statement on Federal Judge’s Order to Immediately Reinstate Federal Workers Illegally Fired by Elon Musk

March 13, 2025

Press Release

Washington, D.C. (March 13, 2025)— Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement after a federal judge ordered multiple government agencies, including the Department of Defense, the Department of Treasury, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, to immediately re-hire workers unlawfully fired by Elon Musk and DOGE:

Subcommittees

119th Congress

Issues: Federal Workforce

Ranking Member Connolly Launches Investigation Into Agency “Reduction In Force” Plans That Threaten Life-Saving Government Services

March 10, 2025

Press Release

Washington, D.C. (March 10, 2025)—Today, Rep. Gerald E.

Subcommittees

119th Congress

Issues: Federal Workforce

Ranking Member Connolly Moves to Defund Trump’s Purge of Federal Workforce and Plot to Turn Federal Agencies Into Partisan Machines

March 10, 2025

Press Release

Washington, D.C. (March 10, 2025)— Today, Representative Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, submitted an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2025 Continuing Resolution to block the Trump Administration from purging at least 100,000 expert, career federal workers and replacing them with inexperienced partisan loyalists.

Subcommittees

119th Congress

Issues: Federal Workforce

Ranking Member Connolly and More Than 100 House Democrats Demand OPM Reinstate All Unlawfully Fired Federal Employees

March 6, 2025

Press Release

Washington, D.C. (March 6, 2025)—Today, Rep. Gerald E.

Subcommittees

119th Congress

Issues: Federal Workforce

Ranking Members Connolly and Mfume Introduce Resolution of Inquiry Into Trump-Musk Administration’s Political Purge of the Federal Workforce

March 4, 2025