NDAs for Federal Workers: Unnecessary, Dangerous, and Unconstitutional

I'm writing as your constituent to ask you to push back on the Trump administration's proposed NDAs for all federal employees. This is not about protecting national security. The government already has classification systems, security clearance agreements, and federal law — including the Espionage Act — to handle that. This proposal goes much further, covering broad categories of routine government business with vague language about "pre-decisional" and "deliberative" material. That vagueness is the problem. Even if whistleblower rights are technically preserved in the fine print, employees who have signed a sweeping NDA will think twice before reporting waste, fraud, or abuse. That chilling effect is likely the point — and it's antithetical to the accountability that Congress and the public depend on. Federal workers serve the American people, not the administration. The information they handle in their jobs belongs to us. An NDA that insulates the executive branch from scrutiny isn't a security measure — it's a tool for controlling the political narrative. I ask you to use your oversight authority to oppose this proposal, speak out against it publicly, and defend the whistleblower protections that keep our government honest. Credibility in government has to be earned through conduct — not manufactured through silence.