Meeting with House panel, OPM officials cut short after clash between top lawmakers
Source: The Hill
03/25/25 5:02 PM ET
A closed-door meeting between members of a House subcommittee and officials from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was cut short on Tuesday after the top two lawmakers on the panel clashed over the terms of the gathering. The disagreement was confirmed to The Hill by the two lawmakers involved, Reps. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Dave Joyce (R-Ohio), as well as two other sources familiar with the matter.
The huddle, according to an invitation obtained by The Hill, was organized as a roundtable discussion where OPM officials could brief members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) on “updates and recent activity” by the agency.
OPM has been closely aligned with the priorities of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is the brainchild of Elon Musk. In recent weeks, OPM has rolled out buyout offers for government workers, instructed agencies to fire their probationary employees and initiated emails asking federal workers to recap their work week with five bullet notes.
The meeting, however, never fully got underway after Joyce, the chair of the subcommittee, and Hoyer, the top Democrat on the panel, got into a disagreement over the conditions of the gathering. The invitation said the meeting was an “off-the-record briefing,” but Hoyer said he told Joyce at the beginning of the event that he would not abide by those terms because he believed it was important for his constituents and others to be aware of what OPM has been doing.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5213662-house-opm-meeting-clash/
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