Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) announced plans to reintroduce two bills covering inclusion and oversight of the federal workforce at a Feb. 23 House hearing.
National Security Diversity and Inclusion Workforce Act would require national security agencies to publicly report on their diversity and inclusion efforts and the Merit Systems Protection Board Empowerment Act would reauthorize the agency through 2026 and give it authority to survey federal employees.
Connolly, who chairs the Subcommittee on Government Operations of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform said the government is at a critical inflection point when it comes to federal workforce policy – and what he and other Democrats see as an assault on the civil service by former President Donald Trump and his administration.