Press Releases

Congressman Joe Neguse, Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Federal Lands, joined Congresswoman Doris Matsui, Co-Chair of the Bipartisan National Service Caucus, and 148 of their colleagues from the House and Senate in sending a letter to President Donald Trump defending AmeriCorps and NCCC AmeriCorps members and calling on him to reverse cuts to the program made last week by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Following public reports of President Trump’s expected effort to implement disastrous funding cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in his upcoming budget proposal, Colorado lawmakers—Congressman Joe Neguse and Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper—moved quickly to defend the agency and its Cooperative Institutes (CIs).

Congressman Joe Neguse and Small Business Committee Ranking Member Nydia Velasquez sent a letter to the Trump Administration calling on them to reconsider the imposition of on-again, off-again tariffs following the fallout on small businesses.

After addressing concerned constituents outside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) facilities in Boulder, Colorado, Congressman Joe Neguse released the following video. In the recording, Neguse reaffirmed his support for the scientists and civil servants who have dedicated themselves to advancing discoveries in weather forecasting, climate monitoring, emergency preparedness, cybersecurity, and more.

Following public reports that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) entered into an agreement with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”), Congressman Joe Neguse and Colorado Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper penned a letter to the Acting Postmaster General urging him to ensure on-time and reliable mail delivery in rural and mountain communities along the Western Slope, and to ensure DOGE does not further exacerbate problematic mail delivery issues in these areas.

Today, Democratic Representatives Joe Neguse, Seth Magaziner, Mike Levin, Steven Horsford, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and David Min penned a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson requesting that he call on every member of the House of Representatives to immediately file and release their Periodic Trading Reports (PTR) for any transactions conducted between April 2, 2025 and April 9, 2025 – the window in which President Donald Trump and his administration plunged the United States into a reckless trade war, issuing on-again, off-again tariffs on nearly 90 countries, and immediately schedule for a vote legislation to ban stock trading by representatives.

Congressman Joe Neguse (CO-02), Ranking Member of the Federal Lands Subcommittee, and Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper called for immediate clarification regarding recent announcements from the Trump Administration that nearly twenty federal leases for land management agencies are to be terminated throughout Colorado.

Congressman Joe Neguse, Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Federal Lands, issued the following statement after leading with Rep. LaMonica McIver an effort to reinstate federal employees who were unjustly fired by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s “DOGE” initiative which enacted mass terminations at critical agencies like the United States Forest Service (USFS) and the National Park Service (NPS).