Committee Leaders Lofgren and Foushee Call Out Trump's NASA for Alleged Employee Censorship
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Ranking Members Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Valerie Foushee (D-NC) issued the following statement after reporting from NASA Watch alleged that employees at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters in Washington have been directed to remove symbols aligned with or celebrating the LGBTQ+ community. According to the reporting, employees are prohibited from displaying anything related to pride in their office, including lapel pins, badge lanyards, laptop stickers, and flags.
“This is a ridiculous overstep and direct assault on NASA HQ employees’ free speech and humanity,” said Ranking Members Lofgren and Foushee. “Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s rampant homophobia—and phobia of anything that does not serve their narrow-minded view of who counts as American—is rapidly seeping into Washington at their direction, and according to this report, allegedly without an official paper trail. This government-sanctioned censorship is the latest assault on the rights of federal employees and should not stand.”
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