Dems imposes a roadside to prevent Trump from transferring Fed agencies outside DC
A cohort of Representatives and democratic senators They are proposing legislation aimed at blocking the efforts of President Donald Trump to transfer federal agencies outside of Washington, DC, something that the president has taken measures to start doing.
The guide issued in February by the Trump administration commissioned federal agencies to present any proposed transfer of offices and agency offices by April 14, instructions related to the president’s wider efforts to eliminate waste, fraud and abuses within the federal government.
The pair of accompaniment invoices from the Democrats to the Chamber and the Senate tries to request agencies to conduct and share a complete analysis of the cost-benefit with the congress and the public before any transfer.
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A worker removes the US agency for the international development sign outside its headquarters in Washington, DC, February 7th. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
“All those standing here, each of my colleagues, wants to get rid of fraud, waste and abuse … but the rhetoric (from the administration) is a coverage for a program that is perverse and contrary to the interests of the United States of America”, Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-MD., He said during a press conference held at the Capitol who announces the new legislative effort.
“All this is targeted to exhaust the federal workforce and cancel the United States government,” added the representative Jamie Raskin, D-MD. “This is the philosophy that is guiding all this.”
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Maryland Democrats introduced a couple of invoices to the Chamber and Senate aimed at blocking the efforts of President Trump to transfer federal agencies outside of Washington, DC (Getty Images/Fox News)
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Maryland’s Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen previously introduced “The cost of the Relocations Act” in 2020 and again in 2023.
“We hoped (the bill) would no longer be necessary, but it is,” said Van Hollen at the press conference. “It is necessary to stop Donald Trump And Elon Musk to waste the dollars of American taxpayers by sabotaged the services on which the American public depends. “
