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What changes is Trump making to federal worker unionization?
President Trump has signed an executive order targeting federal unions. Meanwhile, his sweeping tariffs are set to take effect this week for the first time.
Daily Wire's senior editor Cabot Phillips is here to break down another packed weekend in the White House. Cabot, so lots to catch up with as usual to start this week. Let's start with the president's actions against federal unions. What happened there?
Yeah, we have another significant executive order coming down this weekend. It strips collective bargaining rights from a wide swath of federal employees, essentially abolishing their right to unionize. Now, the order will not apply to all federal workers, just those whose work has links to national security.
That includes the Departments of Defense, State, Justice, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs. For context, a number of large federal unions have made clear that they're going to do everything possible to slow Donald Trump's agenda. They've launched dozens of lawsuits to block his efforts to cut spending through Doge.
And other unions negotiated deals with the Biden administration that are still in effect, but Trump says run contrary to his administration's policy. He added that while he does, quote, support constructive partnerships with unions who work with him, he will not tolerate mass obstruction that jeopardizes his ability to manage agencies with vital national security missions.
So again, the focus here is on those who are involved with national security efforts, but there are broader implications. There are. What sort of impact could it have?
Well, it'll likely give the administration more legal footing to dissolve previous collective bargaining agreements between unions and the federal government. To that point, hours after the order was signed, eight federal agencies filed a lawsuit in Texas calling for a judge to void their existing contracts with those unions.
They'll remain in place while the case is heard, but we could see action quickly. More broadly, the biggest federal workers union, the American Federation of Government Employees, said over the weekend that hundreds of thousands of their 800,000 members could soon be stripped of their memberships. They vowed in response to file countersuits of their own.
If the courts rule in Trump's favor, though, it'll give him considerable power to cut the federal workforce and really follow through on his promise to slash spending in Washington.
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