Top House Dem seeks details on FOIA staffing amid agency firings
By Justin Doubleday, Federal News Network, Mar. 20, 2025
A top House Democrat is pressing agencies for details on their Freedom of Information Act operations, citing FOIA staff firings impacting at least one agency under the Trump administration.
In letters to 24 agencies today, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) requests their plans for complying with FOIA. “Preserving your agency’s ability to respond to FOIA requests is a critical tool to provide the American people the transparency to which they are entitled,” Connolly wrote.