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Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee are demanding more details from the Trump administration about its proposed reorganization of the Office of Personnel Management, after multiple requests for information have come up mostly empty-handed.

“To date, the administration has failed to provide the committee with the plans or any detailed justification,” Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), chairman of the Oversight and Reform Government Operations Subcommittee, wrote Thursday in a letter to leaders on the Appropriations Committee and Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee.

The administration briefed committee staff on the OPM reorganization, but the information they provided lacked detail, Connolly said.

“The administration also failed to provide written legal analysis of the authorities needed for the reorganization despite repeated requests for the information,” he added.

Connolly and others have mentioned their concerns with the proposed OPM reorganization in passing, but Thursday’s letter is one of the first times that a group of lawmakers of this size has publicly critiqued the administration’s plan.

Nearly all Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee have signed the letter, in addition to Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), Don Beyer and Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.), and David Trone and Anthony Brown (D-Md.).

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