WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Angela Alsobrooks, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Chris Van Hollen, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, (both D-MD) joined a group of colleagues to demand answers from the Administration on Head Start, a critical program that provides America’s most vulnerable young children what they need to succeed in school – food, resources, and more. The program still faces uncertainty after last week’s haphazard Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) memo that imposed a government-wide hiring freeze. Last week, Head Start programs were temporarily unable to access the Payment Management System (PMS)

WASHINGTON, DC – On Friday evening, Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) joined Jen Psaki to discuss the current Administration’s very disturbing witch hunt targeting the federal workforce and the dangerous rhetoric of Health and Human Service Secretary Nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “And as you mentioned these are, in so many cases, apolitical civil servants who are serving our country, and what we’re seeing now is really devastating. It’s devastating,” said Senator Alsobrooks. “It’s not just the FBI but you can just see, really, we can’t consider it in a vacuum. The witch hunt that we’ve seen regarding our federal employees.” “These are people, many of whom,

During his first days on the job, EPA Administrator Zeldin rubber stamps Trump’s crippling funding freeze, threatens jobs, jeopardizes infrastructure projects, and violates federal law WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) joined all Democratic members of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee in demanding answers from newly-confirmed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin about the agency’s freezing of Congressionally appropriated funds, including those that have already been obligated.  According to public reporting, the EPA sent letters to grant recipients explaining it was pausing “all funding actions related to” the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.  Not only are