Republicans Begin Bucking Trump on Government Union Rights
Rank-and-file Republicans are rebuffing President Donald Trump’s push to abolish many federal sector unions, warning their leaders that pro-union conservatives helped the party take control of both chambers of Congress.
More than a dozen House Republicans joined Democrats to bring up a vote on a bill (H.R. 2550) reversing Trump’s executive orders that ended collective bargaining rights for an estimated 1 million government workers. Sixteen Republicans also joined Democrats in an unsuccessful attempt to restore union rights for some civilian employees of the Department of Defense as part of the annual defense bill.
While the effort to save some public sector unions hasn’t yet garnered enough support to reverse Trump’s policies, it laid bare a rift in the Republican party over how to reduce government bureaucracy while appealing to working-class voters ahead of the 2026 midterms. It also demonstrated the limited support unions are seeing from Republican party leaders.
“We should not be the party of no, the party of take away, the party that hurts people,” said Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.), a former Democrat who voted to advance the bill restoring unionizing rights to federal workers. “Our majority would not be a majority without Republicans who are, for example, pro-union.”
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