Interior Department threatens members of Congress for standing up for federal workers
By
Lisa Needham -August 29, 2019
The administration is moving the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado and lawmakers who oppose the move are met with threats.
The administration is continuing its quest to destabilize government agencies, but this time they're going after members of Congress, too.
In July, the Trump administration announced it would be moving the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management from Washington, D.C., to Colorado. That only comprises about 400 employees out of 9,000 nationwide, but the employees in D.C. are top officials who work with Congress.
Democrats have worried that this is a move designed to "dismantle and weaken" the BLM. They should be. Trump's acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, already bragged that relocations are a great way to get federal workers to quit.
Two members of Congress, Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) and Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN), wrote a letter to the Department of the Interior expressing their concern and asking the administration to consider suspending the move. They're concerned about the "incomplete and superficial" information regarding the move. They also pointed out that the relocation of a major government land-use agency should have been coordinated with more stakeholders, including Congress, state and local governments, and Native American tribes.
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