Ranking Member Connolly’s Statement on Trump Transition Team Questioning the Loyalty of Career Civil Servants at National Security Council

Washington, D.C. (January 13, 2025)—Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to reports that Trump transition team officials are questioning National Security Council career civil servants about who they voted for in the 2024 election, their political contributions, and their social media activity.  

“President-elect Trump and his transition team are making the National Security Council ground zero for its purge of non-partisan civil servants.  Replacing the experts on the council with political cronies threatens our national security and our ability to respond quickly and effectively to the ongoing and very real global threats in a dangerous world.  Partisan loyalty tests have no place in national security.”