Maryland’s newly elected U.S. Senator Angela Alsobrooks condemned recent White House executive orders as illegal, deliberately destabilizing, and cruel.
“This president came into office, and he immediately attacked civil servants, and over 150,000 civil servants are Marylanders. So, it’s been a really, really difficult time,” Alsobrooks told 11 News.
Still settling into her new role, Angela Alsobrooks is currently working out of a temporary office in the basement of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. However, she told 11 News on Friday that hasn’t stopped her from pushing back against the White House, describing the past 17 days as “chaos by design.”
“We’ve seen so much chaos happening all at one time, and so we’ve rolled our sleeves up here,” Alsobrooks said. “In the last Trump administration, some Democrats said we made a mistake by being outraged about everything. How do you navigate what to fight back against and what to not fight against? I think people have a right to feel enraged about all of it. All of it is horrible.”
The influx of calls from concerned constituents has been so overwhelming that it temporarily shut down the Senate phone system this week, affecting the senator’s team and others.
“Oh my God, the flood … the phones literally, this week, stopped working, some of them — the phones and the voicemails — and it was a systemwide issue in the Senate because we have so many calls coming in,” Alsobrooks told 11 News.
Through constituent services, Alsobrooks has been actively opposing executive orders and White House actions she believes are unconstitutional, illegal, and intentionally chaotic.
On Thursday, she voted against the nomination of Russell Vought for director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, despite 30 hours of unified opposition from Senate Democrats.
Her vote came as legal challenges mounted against recent White House executive orders, with new court filings in federal lawsuits over transgender health care, birthright citizenship, and the closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
“We’re using every tool that we can here in the Senate. We held the floor for about 30 hours this week. I participated in that. We are demanding answers from this administration, and we’re going to continue,” Alsobrooks told 11 News.
Plans are still being finalized for a Tele-Town Hall for federal employees next week. The senator’s office stated that once details are confirmed, the information will be shared on Alsobrooks’ social media platforms, including X, Facebook, and Instagram.
