House panel probes mass firings at agencies and questions Elon Musk access to Labor Department systems

The House Education and Labor Committee spent a portion of its March 12, 2025, hearing examining a wave of recent personnel actions at federal agencies and probing whether private contractors tied to Elon Musk have been given access to sensitive Department of Labor (DOL) systems.

Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D‑Va.) told the committee that the new administration "illegally fired" inspectors general and other officials and said he had asked whether contractor access includes "files on investigations that include the name of confidential witnesses or whistleblowers," but had not received answers. Scott added that he and his staff had asked the chair to join oversight efforts to require answers about what a contractor code‑named in committee remarks as "Doge" has accessed and why. "We're now hearing about abrupt firings of public servants … this is outrageous," Scott said.

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