Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), today issued the statement below responding to the reported firing of thousands of federal employees at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Beyer serves on the House Ways and Means Tax Subcommittee, and represents a Northern Virginia district containing one of the largest concentrations of federal employees in the U.S. House.
Beyer released resources for federal… Read more »
Dear Friend,
Like many of you, I am outraged by President Trump and Elon Musk’s lies and attacks on the work, character, and patriotism of federal employees and contractors in order to justify their crusade against the very people who make our government run.
This bile has been matched by actions that have targeted the civil service: Schedule F, a return to office mandate on an… Read more »
Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents a Northern Virginia district containing one of the largest concentrations of federal employees in the U.S. House, issued the following statement today on Donald Trump’s “workforce optimization initiative,” an Executive Order pairing mass purges of the federal workforce with a directive that all new hiring be vetted by a fake, unauthorized agency… Read more »
Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), who organized Members of Congress to show support for employees of the U.S. Agency For International Development (USAID) at USAID headquarters on Monday, issued the following statement today after a federal judge said he would temporarily halt the Musk Administration’s assault on USAID employees:
“I welcome a judicial order to halt the Musk Administration’s… Read more »
Rep. Don Beyer, who represents a Northern Virginia congressional district with one of the largest concentrations of federal employees in the country, issued the following statement today after a federal judge paused the Elon Musk-authored offer of “deferred resignation” to all federal workers:
“The offer of so-called ‘deferred resignation’ is deceptive and legally dubious. One of the… Read more »
Rep. Don Beyer today led a bicameral delegation today that spoke about the importance of the U.S. Agency For International Development (USAID), featuring remarks from Senators Chris Van Hollen, Brian Schatz, and Chris Murphy, and Reps. Gerry Connolly, Jamie Raskin, Ilhan Omar, Jim McGovern, Johnny Olszewski, Suhas Subramanyam, Sarah Elfreth, Eugene Vindman, and Yassamin Ansari. After… Read more »
Today, Congresswoman Jennifer L. McClellan (VA-04) led her Virginia Democratic colleagues, Representatives Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03), Don Beyer (VA-08), Gerry Connolly (VA-11), Suhas Subramanyam (VA-10), and Eugene Vindman (VA-07) in urging President Donald Trump to revise or revoke his hiring freeze on federal civilian employees.
Virginia is home to nearly 150,000 federal… Read more »
Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents a Northern Virginia district containing one of the largest concentrations of federal employees in the U.S. House, issued the following statement today on Donald Trump’s “Schedule F” order, which seeks to replace the merit-based civil service established by Congress with political cronyism:
“Trump’s order politicizing the federal workforce is a recipe… Read more »
Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents a Northern Virginia district that was home to many of those who protected the Capitol on January 6th including Officers Sicknick, Smith, DeFreytag, and Fanone, issued the following statement today on President Donald Trump’s pardons and commutations for the perpetrators of the violent January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol:
“With these pardons… Read more »
Last month, the Republican Study Committee, which counts 80 percent of House Republicans as members, rolled out a new FY25 budget which contained wide-reaching proposals to transform American society. The document was timed to contrast with President Biden’s budget, endorsing legislation offered by many individual members of the House Republican conference which, taken together, presented… Read more »
