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Lawmakers demand data after department staff buyouts and deferred resignations; secretary cites litigation limits
Summary
Members of the House Appropriations subcommittee pressed Secretary Chavez de Remer for numbers and details about staff reductions, deferred resignations, buyouts and personnel actions at the Department of Labor; the secretary repeatedly said litigation and ongoing processes limit what she could say and pledged to provide data when available.
House lawmakers used portions of the Labor appropriations hearing to seek immediate transparency about personnel actions at the Department of Labor, including deferred resignations, buyouts and staff placed on administrative leave.
Representative Hoyer and others asked the secretary for current full‑time equivalent (FTE) counts and for the number of employees who accepted buyouts or were placed on leave. The committee cited reports that large percentages of staff in certain offices — in…
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