I'm writing as one of your constituents who believes that government workers — the people who inspect our food, process our veterans' benefits, and keep our air and water safe — should be able to do their jobs without being silenced. The Trump administration's Office of Personnel Management has proposed a governmentwide nondisclosure agreement that would require all 2.3 million civilian federal employees to sign confidentiality terms set by the executive branch. That's not protecting sensitive information — that's muzzling the workforce that serves us.
This matters to everyday people. Federal employees are often the first ones to notice when something is going wrong inside an agency — waste, safety failures, political interference. Whistleblower protections exist precisely because we as a country decided that the public deserves to know when their government isn't working. A blanket NDA pushed from the top overrides those protections and tells workers: stay quiet or face consequences. That's a bad deal for taxpayers, for accountability, and for the millions of Americans who depend on federal services every day. And it sends a chilling message to anyone thinking about a career in public service.
Please go on record opposing this proposed OPM nondisclosure agreement and make clear to your colleagues that Congress will not stand by while the executive branch silences the public servants who work for all of us.
