Hill Heat

Full committee hearing to examine multiple nominations.

Nominees:

• Edward Forst, of Florida, to be Administrator of General Services
• Charles Arrington, of Illinois, to be a Member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority for a term expiring July 1, 2030
• Paul Ingrassia, of New York, to be Special Counsel, Office of Special Counsel, for the term of five years
• John Cuong Truong, Elana S. Suttenberg, and Stephen F. Rickard, each to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for the term of fifteen years
• William “Bill” Kirk, of Maryland, to be Inspector General, Small Business Administration
• Anthony D’Esposito, of New York, to be Inspector General, Department of Labor
• Platte Moring, of South Carolina, to be Inspector General, Department of Defense

Charles Arrington is the Chief Human Resources Officer at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Forst began working for Bankers Trust in 1982 as a managing director. In 1994, Forst joined Goldman Sachs, becoming a managing director in 1996 and a partner in 1998. In 2004, he was appointed as the company’s chief administrative officer, and in 2007, he became the co-head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Forst temporarily left Goldman Sachs in 2008 to serve as Harvard’s executive vice president and to advise secretary of the treasury Henry Paulson amid a financial crisis. Forst returned to Goldman Sachs in September 2009 as the firm’s senior strategy officer. In February 2010, he was appointed head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Amid complications involving his leadership style and weeks after he did not appear at a critical meeting in Europe, Forst was removed from Goldman Sachs in December 2010. Forst began serving as Cushman & Wakefield’s president and chief executive in January 2014. He led a strategy to return Cushman & Wakefield to New York City’s real estate market, but was forced to leave the company after its acquisition by DTZ in May 2015.

Ingrassia has publicly associated with white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, as well as Andrew Tate, the conservative social media influencer who is wanted in multiple countries on rape and sex trafficking charges. And he has written extensively of his disdain for federal workers, describing them as “parasites” and “bugmen” who “leech of the diminishing lifeblood of the dying republic.”

Truong, Suttenberg, and Rickard are federal prosecutors in D.C..

Kirk, who studied accounting at the University of Notre Dame and law at Notre Dame Law School, most recently worked at the Department of Education, serving as acting chief of staff for the Office of General Counsel. Kirk is on detail from the Environmental Protection Agency’s IG office, where he most recently served as acting counsel to the IG. He served at the EPA IG from 2022 to 2024. A devout Catholic, Kirk was general counsel for the Catholic Ave Maria University, the executive director of the Catholic Education Foundation, and a partner in a Catholic wealth management firm before joining the first Trump administration as deputy general counsel in the Department of Education.

Anthony P. D’Esposito is a retired New York City Police Department detective. A Republican, he represented New York’s 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2023 to 2025.

Platte Moring joined The Citadel as an adjunct professor in the fall of 2021 and is also an adjunct professor for The College of Charleston School of Law. Moring is a retired Lieutenant Colonel from the Pennsylvania Army National Guard.