To see her full remarks introducing the amendment, watch here. Washington, DC – Last night, Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) offered an amendment to Senate Republicans’ Budget Resolution that would address the wrongful termination of federal employees who protect the health and safety of Americans. It was voted down by Senate Republicans on a voice vote.  The amendment would protect scientists, emergency preparedness staff, frontline health care workers, drug or medical device reviewers, or other employees at the Department of Health and Human Services from unlawful termination. This comes as the Trump administration have gutted the HHS federal workforce, firing thousands of career employees who protect the health

“The list of real-life negative impacts of this Administration’s directives is expansive and growing every day.” Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) joined a group of 35 Democratic Senators calling on Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Doug Collins to immediately reinstate the more than 1,000 VA employees terminated last week who serve veterans and their families nationwide, including critical employees combatting veteran suicide working at the Veterans Crisis Line. The Trump Administration’s mass terminations of VA employees, which included a substantive number of veterans and military spouses, comes at a time when VA faces critical staffing shortages and increased demand for

To watch the full exchange, click here. Washington, D.C. – Today, Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, questioned Secretary of Labor nominee Lori Chavez-DeRemer on her commitments to supporting America’s workforce – including federal workers and the future of work. As Delaware’s former Secretary of Labor, Blunt Rochester pressed Chavez-DeRemer on the Trump Administration’s reckless, recent mass layoffs of public servants in critical roles across the federal government. Senator Blunt Rochester: “I know you are following the reports, the over 10,000 federal employees, civil servants, who have been fired in recent weeks, including staff at the FAA,