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House Republic rump group backstabs Trump
Posted on 12/14/25 at 5:14 pm
Posted on 12/14/25 at 5:14 pm
Dumbasses. From WSJ editorial yesterday:
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President Trump doesn’t brook dissent, especially within his own party. So perhaps he’ll call out the 20 House Republicans who joined Democrats Thursday to pass a bill to reverse his executive order that stripped collective-bargaining rights from federal workers.
Mr. Trump this spring exempted roughly one million workers at some 40 agencies from collective bargaining. The Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute grants most federal workers collective-bargaining rights, but it lets the President carve out agencies involved in “intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work.”
Mr. Trump applied these exclusions to the Department of Veterans Affairs, Food and Drug Administration, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Federal Communications Commission and other agencies whose work can affect national security. Unions sued to block the order, but the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals let it take effect in August.
Labor agreements make it harder to reward merit and punish poor performance and misconduct. They also reduce government efficiency, which can slow project permitting, de-regulation and pharmaceutical reviews. The VA’s unionized workforce and prescriptive labor agreements are one reason its hospitals are often frustrating for patients.
President Franklin Roosevelt understood that collective bargaining for federal workers would undermine good government. “Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities,” he said.
Most Democrats today disagree, and apparently some Republicans do too. Five Republicans gave federal unions an assist by signing a discharge petition championed by Maine Democratic Rep. Jared Golden to force a vote on nullifying Mr. Trump’s executive order this year. It passed Thursday, 231-195.
The 20 GOP union abettors are Don Bacon (Neb.), Mike Bost (Ill.); Brian Fitzpatrick, Robert Bresnahan and Ryan Mackenzie (Pa.); Gabe Evans (Colo.); Andrew Garbarino, Nick LaLota, Michael Lawler, Nicole Malliotakis (N.Y.); David Joyce and Michael Turner (Ohio); Thomas Kean Jr., Christopher Smith and Jefferson Van Drew (N.J.); Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Zachary Nunn (Iowa); Pete Stauber (Minn.); David Valadao (Calif.) and Derrick Van Orden (Wis.).
Many of these Republicans represent swing districts, but making government less efficient and responsive to the American people is unlikely to help them win re-election.
This post was edited on 12/14/25 at 5:14 pm
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Posted on 12/14/25 at 5:16 pm to prplhze2000
Whatever bill these clowns pass Trump can veto.
Posted on 12/14/25 at 5:22 pm to SloaneRanger
Yeah but so much for codifying the order, thanks to these 20 dumbasses.
Posted on 12/14/25 at 5:23 pm to prplhze2000
The ban even if it had passed would have been in the SCOTUS before too long where it probably would've been overturned anyway. Trump broke precedent by carving out groups of Employess that were never in the past subject to the law. In other words they aren't security risks.
Posted on 12/14/25 at 5:24 pm to prplhze2000
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Yeah but so much for codifying the order, thanks to these 20 dumbasses.
It would never be codified. The Dems would filibuster.
Posted on 12/14/25 at 5:25 pm to OchoDedos
Do we really need 1 million workers in those 40 agencies ?
Posted on 12/14/25 at 5:26 pm to Trevaylin
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Do we really need 1 million workers in those 40 agencies ?
No, but if they moved those agencies out of DC, which is perfectly legal, a lot of those people would quit.
This post was edited on 12/14/25 at 5:29 pm
Posted on 12/14/25 at 5:43 pm to OchoDedos
9th Circuit already upheld order.
Posted on 12/14/25 at 6:43 pm to prplhze2000
F****** Congress can't codified Doge cuts, but they can sure as hell protect federalized unions with bipartisan support. Ladies and gentlemen I think we found the problem
Posted on 12/14/25 at 6:55 pm to prplhze2000
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Many of these Republicans represent swing districts
This is all you need to know. They know Trump will veto it and this helps them save votes. They are politicians for a reason.
Posted on 12/14/25 at 6:58 pm to SloaneRanger
I was just thinking about this the other day.. I would love for a bill to come up where all of the RINOS are passionate about and Trump tells them to frick off by Veto'ing and says "Now you know how it feels"
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