Video: 100s of Federal Employees at Rep. Suhas Subramanyman (D-VA10)’s Town Hall Monday Evening Say They’re “Angry,” “Seething,” Appalled at What “DOGE” Is Doing, etc.

See below for video and a few highlights from US Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA10)’s town hall, focused on ” the recent federal freeze, federal cuts, and DOGE.” Among other things, Rep. Subramanyam “provide[d] an update on legislative efforts to protect the civil service and discuss[ed] efforts for government efficiency.” Also, see this excellent article in LoudounNOW on the town hall, as well as this story by NBC4 and this one by WTOP [and this one from the Prince William Times]:

• “It’s kind of worded as a buyout, but it’s not actually a buyout. It’s basically telling you to resign in the next six to eight months, and that if you take this option, you don’t have to come into work anymore…You should talk to a lawyer. If you’re part of a union, talk to a union. I’ll say that I don’t know if I trust this offer. I don’t know if I trust that they’ll pay you through when they say they pay you. We appropriate funds in Congress and there’s no appropriation for this right now. There’s no money for this. So, I would at least wait until you know the money is there.” – Rep. Subramanyam
• “We don’t have the majority in the House. What we do have is the ability to speak up, to tell people’s stories, and to make sure that whatever leverage we have in Congress that we use it. I’m going to use my leverage on the Oversight Committee to try to bring in people who can testify about what’s going on. And if I can’t do that, I will hold town halls like this and make those stories public.” – Rep. Subramanyam
• “We’re getting very little information as members of Congress, and it’s totally unacceptable. The DOGE committee has spoken with us never, basically.” – Rep. Subramanyam
• “I’d like to have Elon Musk come testify in our committee. If he has so much power, then why doesn’t he come and be accountable to our committee?” – Rep. Subramanyam
• “I feel like people should not be in despair and feel like their voice doesn’t matter…It matters more than ever, and they need to speak up.” – Rep. Subramanyam
• “I am angry. I am seething. … I want you and I want all of the other Democrats as angry as I am…Get off of the high road.” – Federal worker to Rep. Subramanyam
• “My concerns are very similar to the concerns we just heard about, particularly DOGE, having access to data like cybersecurity, to have access to data without having those [security] clearances…Those of us who have been there administering billions of dollars, know that those are positions of public trust with great scrutiny on your finances, on your conflicts of interest, and now we have private citizens, and if Wired is to be believed, 19-year-olds in college working along with a private citizen with access to our treasury payment system.” – Retired federal employee
• “Do you have any confidence that the legal or legislative action already taken to stop DOGE and the firehose of horror coming out, it seems by the hour, about Elon Musk and his underage army of machines?” – Federal employee
• “In the last week, we had Elon Musk in our building, and after he visited the building he called for a 50% cut of the entire agency…My colleagues are getting 15-minute one-on-one check-ins with 19, 20 and 21-year-old college graduates asking to justify their existence.” – Federal employee
• “Every day for the last week or two, everyone has been scared. Everyone’s afraid every day the other shoe’s going to drop and we’re going to get cut.” – Attendee
• “Could you tell me please, to which branch does Elon Musk belong?” – Attendee