Fighting for Our Federal Workers

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Ms. McCLELLAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak out on behalf of our beleaguered Federal workforce which is currently under attack by the Musk-Trump-Vance administration.

Trump's OMB nominee, Russell Vought, said: ``We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. . . . We want to put them in trauma.'' Well, Mr. Speaker, they are in trauma.

Literally, on my way to the floor to vote tonight, I received a text from a Federal employee who said simply: ``Help us!'' Who exactly is the Musk-Trump-Vance administration terrorizing: the people who make sure your food is safe to eat, your water is clean to drink, and the air is clean to breathe; the people who work tirelessly to keep pregnant women, asthmatic children, and people with cancer from dying; the people who make sure you fly safely; and the people protecting American lives here and around the globe through diplomacy, intelligence gathering, and fighting crime.

Mr. Speaker, I see the Federal workforce. I am doing everything I can to help them. I won't quit. They shouldn't quit either.

THE SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Moore of West Virginia). Members are reminded to refrain from engaging in personalities toward the President.

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