Ranking Member Connolly’s Statement on Court Action Blocking Trump’s Mass Firings

Washington, D.C. (February 27, 2025)—Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released a statement following a ruling by a federal judge blocking the Trump-Musk Administration’s unlawful mass firings of federal workers nationwide from several agencies, including the National Park Service, Department of Defense, the Bureau of Land Management, and others.

“This victory underscores the power of our growing coalition to fight back against the Trump Administration’s lawlessness and cruelty on behalf of the American people,” said Ranking Member Connolly.  “Trump and Musk are treating our hardworking public servants like numbers in a spreadsheet or garbage to be discarded rather than the valued, talented, and indispensable force that they are. Every day, federal workers—including park rangers, nuclear researchers, VA health care workers, and more—get up and choose to serve their communities and neighbors.  We owe them more than gratitude, we owe them our solidarity. Oversight Democrats will continue to hold the line and lead our coalition to mobilize, message, and litigate—and win.”

Earlier this month, Ranking Member Connolly hosted a roundtable with major federal employee groups and civil service organizations to coordinate action on the Trump Administration’s unprecedented and dangerous attacks on the federal workforce and the critical services they provide to the American people, laying the groundwork for today’s win in court.  Ranking Member Connolly, along with Reps. Joe Neguse, Rosa DeLauro, and Jamie Raskin, is co-chair of the House Democrats’ Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group.  Earlier this week, the Working Group led more than 100 Democrats in another victory in forcing Federal agencies to reverse Musk’s tweet threat against federal workers.