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October 23, 2025
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) and Congressmen Sanford Bishop (GA-02), Mark Pocan (WI-02), and Glenn Ivey (MD-04) sent a letter to the Trump Administration demanding answers about Donald Trump's sudden demolition of the White House's historic East Wing. Despite saying he would not dismantle any part of the White House to construct a privately-funded ballroom, Trump tore down the entire East Wing in a matter of days.

October 20, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC –  Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) joined Representative Lucy McBath (GA-06) alongside Representatives Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10), Lateefah Simon (CA-12), and 117 House Democrats in sending a letter to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought strongly condemning and urging the Trump Administration to rescind their decision to lay off federal employees dedicated to the education and support of students with disabilities and their families. 

Issues: Education

October 16, 2025
WASHINGTON, DC –  Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) joined Congresswoman April McClain Delaney, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks (both D-MD), U.S.

October 15, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05), U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), and Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and U.S. Representative Don Beyer (VA-08) led their 161 colleagues in sending a bipartisan letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought urging OMB to follow the law—which President Donald Trump signed in 2019—that requires furloughed federal employees to receive back pay during a government shutdown.


October 15, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC –  Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) released the following statement today on Republicans’ refusal to swear in U.S. Representative-elect for Arizona's 7th Congressional District Adelita Grijalva, who won the seat of her father, the late U.S. Representative Raul Grijalva, in a special election on September 23, 2025:

"The voters of Arizona’s 7th District, along with all Americans, should demand that Speaker Johnson swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva immediately.


October 15, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) released the following statement today to urge President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and White House Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff to apply pressure on Hamas to return all remaining hostages, prioritizing American citizens Itay Chen and Omer Neutra:


October 14, 2025
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) joined Members of Congress in the Maryland and Virginia delegations for a press conference to call out the Trump Administration for their illegal mass firing of thousands of dedicated public servants in the midst of the Republican government shutdown. Below is a full video and transcript of his remarks:


 


October 10, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) released a statement following reports that the Trump Administration has began another round of Reductions in Force (RIFs) at federal agencies:


October 10, 2025

Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks and U.S. Representatives Steny Hoyer, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie Raskin, Glenn Ivey, Sarah Elfreth, April McClain Delaney, and Johnny Olszewski (all D-Md.) released the following statement on the reports that the Trump Administration has initiated mass firings of federal workers amid their government shutdown: