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Posted on 12/14/2025 4:21:46 AM PST by Eleutheria5
The House voted 231-195 on Thursday to pass legislation that would nullify President Trump’s efforts to strip more than 1 million federal workers of their collective bargaining rights, sending the measure over to the Senate, where its prospects are less rosy.
Twenty Republican lawmakers broke ranks to support the Protect America’s Workforce Act (H.R. 2550) on the floor. Introduced by Reps. Jared Golden, D-Maine, and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., the measure effectively nullifies Trump’s March executive order barring unions at more than 40 federal agencies under the guise of national security and bars federal agencies from terminating any union contracts that were in place prior to the edict’s signature.
Despite its bipartisan support, the vote required a months-long discharge petition drive to amass a majority of House lawmakers’ support and force floor consideration of the measure. House GOP leaders opposed the bill, arguing that contradicting the president here would kneecap his efforts to make agencies “more efficient.”
“[Unions] create barriers to accountability beyond the basic employee protections that exist in law,” said Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, who cited a recent White House report on the use of official time. “[Indeed], many federal employees spend all their time on union business, to the tune of more than 3 million work hours in 2024 alone, for a cost of more than $200 million.”
Three million work hours amounts to 0.069% of the 4.4 billion work hours performed by federal civilian employees each year, while the cost associated with that official time usage totals 0.003% of 2024’s $6.8 trillion in federal discretionary spending.
But Fitzpatrick said the protections that unions provide federal workers are key to the government’s ability to serve the American people.
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Collective bargaining with tax dollars? How is this even legal?
The House would.
The GOPe is often referred to as: RINOs, uniparty, deep state, elites, back stabbers, establishment, surrender monkeys, turncoats, maoists, assistant democrats, traitors, liars, swamp dwellers, debt junkies, crooks, thieves, warmongers, scumbags, republicrats, democrat lite and many others.
These are the POS’ that have begged, borrowed, and stole from us citizens especially the last few generations and put this country in near death.
Pop the Champagne cork when President Trump vetoes the bill should the senate pass it, eat dirt you sellouts.
This is what the house spends its time on. Not fixing the country like seeing a budget, but resisting the president.
lol even FDR was against public employee unions🤔
Yep, need to know who’s vote can be bought.
I doubt they can get a veto-proof majority.
President still has to sign it....I wouldn’t.
So passes by less than 2/3, in the house. It would need 2/3 of both house and senate as Trump will veto it. So, this is just some posturing.
You are whining over a subject you know nothing about.
You need to understand that a congress critter’s job is primarily satisfying lobbyists, special interest groups and other under the table operations that have priority over the needs of the nation and their constituents. And lets not overlook being literally scared to death of the media and any threat a democrat might hurl at them. You should feel good that these fellow Americans are getting filthy rich while stabbing you in the back. /s/
Many of them probably know that, which makes those voting to nullify the EO just grand standing to keep under the table cash flow intact.
“...The GOPe is often referred to as: RINOs, uniparty, deep state, elites, back stabbers, establishment, surrender monkeys, turncoats, maoists, assistant democrats, traitors, liars, swamp dwellers, debt junkies, crooks, thieves, warmongers, scumbags, republicrats, democrat lite and many others....”
Around here, we just call em “vermin”. Useless, vile vermin....kinda like the nasty barn rats here on the farm. It’s a shame they couldn’t be dealt with accordingly. However, they can be primaried out once identified.
I bet Trump could get a lot done if the Republicans controlled the House. Or the Senate for that matter.
Taken down from House Roll Call Vote 332 (https://www.congress.gov/votes/house/119-1/332)
Ok, the House has released a lot of hot air, but Trump has not signed it into law and they do not have sufficient votes for a veto override. So all it is, is hot air from congress, nothing more.
You speak the truth.
If it survives the Senate, Trump can veto the bill.
Thanks for the list.
These are “conservatives” who believe in conserving leftist victories.
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