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Alsobrooks, Warren, Smith Question HUD Secretary on Alarming Consequences of New DOGE Task Force on Housing for Americans

“DOGE’s actions thus far at other agencies have caused widespread chaos, hampered the ability of agencies to do their work, and provided potentially illegal data access to individuals with conflicts of interest. There is no indication that DOGE’s work at HUD will be any less detrimental.” Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, and Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Ranking Member of Senate Banking Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation and Community Development, sent a letter to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Scott Turner, questioning the alarming

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Senator Alsobrooks to Lori Chavez-DeRemer: “Do you believe that a collective bargaining agreement is enforceable under the law?”

Alsobrooks pushes Labor Secretary nominee on collective bargaining agreements for federal workers WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, questioned Lori Chavez-DeRemer, the President’s nominee to lead the Department of Labor. Alsobrooks focused her questioning on collective bargaining rights for federal workers, the rule of law, and more. WATCH ALSOBROOKS’ QUESTIONING HERE 

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Alsobrooks, Van Hollen Demand Trump Reinstate NLRB Member Wilcox, Protect Workers’ Rights

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Angela Alsobrooks and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.), and a bipartisan group of 265 lawmakers wrote a letter to President Trump demanding he immediately reinstate National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Member Gwynne Wilcox. The lawmakers called on the president to restore the NLRB’s ability to protect the rights of American workers to organize and collectively bargain, which have already been impaired by understaffing at the agency and now are effectively lost by the lack of quorum on the NLRB. “We are writing to express our deep frustration at the unprecedented and illegal firing of National Labor Relations Board Member Gwynne

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