Steny Hoyer to OMB Dir. Russ Vought: No Business on Earth Could Treat Their Employees Like DOGE Did and Expect Efficiency

EXCERPT:

HOYER: “Were the thousands of doctors, scientists and cancer researchers DOGE fired from NIH villains? The more than 800 employees DOGE dismissed from NOAA, people who take — track hurricanes and protect Americans from storms, were they deep state agendas? What about the food inspectors, intelligence officers, national park rangers, first responders and countless others purged by this administration? They’re just patriotic Americans trying to serve their country. All received an email seeking their decision to leave the federal service, 2-point-plus million of them. What sort of message does that send? I think of a Marylander named Caitlin, who worked at the center for medical and Medicaid innovation. After spending weeks agonizing over whether DOGE would fire her, she died of suicide back in February. I think of another Marylander, Monique, who worked for the Social Security Administration. She was forced to pick up more work as many of her colleagues took the buyout or were fired by DOGE. The stress grew and grew until, sitting at her desk in February, she died of a heart attack. Her friends and family are certain it was triggered by the stress she was under at work. No business on earth could treat employees like this and expect efficiency to improve or their enterprise to succeed. There is no doubt efficiency has gone down, backlogs have grown at the Social Security Administration, the VA and other agencies. Federal employees now have to spend hours filling out paperwork just to order basic office supplies, something that used to take minutes."