Patty Murray

There is nothing ‘efficient’ about indiscriminately firing thousands upon thousands of workers in red and blue states whose work is badly needed.

The resolution is pro-billionaire, anti-middle class.

The firings last week are utterly callous and dangerous.

Until such time as we are briefed on these developments, we will not know the damage to our country and the world as a result of these haphazard and thoughtless firings.

We find it deeply troubling that the Department ... has sent a strong message that it does not view the oversight and safety of legacy nuclear weapons cleanup sites as a national security priority.

The firings last week were utterly callous and dangerous.

We strongly suggest your administration pay far closer attention to the work carried out by the federal employees subject to these seemingly indiscriminate and arbitrary layoffs.

To order the firing of employees without knowing that NNSA is responsible for maintaining a safe, secure, and reliable nuclear weapons stockpile while also preventing, countering, and responding to a terrorist or other adversary with a…

The efforts to fire employees of the National Nuclear Security Administration are shocking.

We are alarmed about the thousands of probationary employee firings across the Department of Energy.

Republicans tell you they want to empower local communities and that states, schools, and parents know best, and again and again use top-down threats to achieve their culture war agenda.

Rather than trying to make college more affordable or helping to improve our kids' outcomes, Trump is letting far-right extremists inject politics into the classroom at every turn.

There is simply no authority or basis for Trump to impose such a mandate.

I hope no parent, student, or teacher is intimidated by these threats—this former preschool teacher certainly is not.

This threat to rip away the federal funding our public K-12 schools and colleges receive flies in the face of the law.

Not because their work isn't desperately needed, but because Trump and Elon have decided to fire these researchers on a whim.

It is disturbingly dystopian.

One CTI graduate from Washington State... was disqualified from consideration by the biographical assessment.

One CTI graduate from Washington State had graduated with high honors, passed an FAA test for initial qualification, has almost five years of service in the air force, and a commercial pilot certificate but was disqualified from…

One CTI graduate from Washington State who had graduated with high honors, passed an FAA test for initial qualification, has almost five years of service in the air force, and a commercial pilot certificate but was disqualified from…

Running farmers out of business, derailing infrastructure projects, cutting cancer research and killing good-paying clean energy jobs isn’t just unpopular, it’s devastating for working people everywhere.

It is stunning to me that [Linda McMahon] wants to [DOE] but couldn't name EVEN ONE part of this basic federal education law she would focus on. It's disqualifying.

Make no mistake, this is just the first step Trump and Musk are taking to abolish the Department of Education.

Every kid deserves a great public education and that can't happen without nonpartisan research and data to understand what's working and what needs to be fixed.

Democrats and Republicans alike must be able to trust that when a deal gets signed into law, it will be followed.