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Rep. Lee Highlights How Ridiculous It Is for Oversight GOP to Hold a Hearing on Incompetence When It’s Woven Into Project 2025

Washington, D.C. – Today, Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA) delivered sharp remarks at a House Oversight Committee hearing, calling out the hypocrisy of Republicans holding a hearing on government incompetence while their own agenda, Project 2025, seeks to dismantle the very systems keeping our government functioning.

Rep. Lee opened her remarks by acknowledging the absurdity of the GOP’s critique, saying:
“The same Congress that can’t pass rule votes and can’t pass a government funding bill is coming after an administration that passed historic legislation—CHIPS, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the infrastructure bill.”

She then made it clear who really keeps the government afloat:
“Let’s be real—the people who are actually keeping things functioning are not Members of Congress or even the President, but our hardworking federal workforce. These career professionals ensure our air is clean, our medications are safe, Social Security checks get out on time, and our veterans live with dignity.”

Rep. Lee continued by explaining the critical difference between career civil servants and the partisan agenda behind Project 2025:
“These professionals aren’t partisan shills. They are experts with the experience and knowledge needed to serve the American people effectively. Yet Project 2025, driven by Trump and the GOP, seeks to replace them with corporate loyalists whose only qualification is loyalty to Donald Trump.”

Rep. Lee went on to emphasize the intentional nature of the dysfunction the GOP is creating:
“Let’s be clear—dismantling our federal agencies isn’t incompetence, it’s intentional. They’re purposefully creating dysfunction, shifting the balance of power to one man: Donald Trump.”

Full Committee Remarks Linked Here.

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Since taking office in January 2023, Lee, who serves on the House Oversight Committee and Space, Science and Technology Committee, has delivered historic levels of federal investment totaling over $1.85 Billion brought back to Western PA, including over $580 million for infrastructure, over $110 million for affordable transit, over $500 million to keep clean energy manufacturing at home in Pennsylvania, and over $55 million on clean energy efforts in and around schools to help keep our kids and communities safe. These investments will help improve Western Pennsylvania’s infrastructure and transit, ensure cleaner air and drinking water, lower housing costs, fund research institutions, fuel clean manufacturing, fund STEM innovation and entrepreneurship, boost workforce development, and create thousands of good paying union jobs.  Lee and her team have also delivered casework and constituent services to over 2,600 constituents with issues ranging from helping our seniors and disabled community access Medicare and social security to helping folks secure housing and helping families with immigration support and passports.