Beau of The Fifth Column
Let's talk about the House voting to overturn a Trump executive order....
14 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Well, howdy there, Internet people. It's Belle again. So today, we're going to talk about the House voting to overturn a Trump executive order. The lame duck is starting to quack louder. The Republican-led House approved a measure to reinstate collective bargaining rights for federal workers on Thursday.
It's the first time Congress has gotten anywhere in an attempt to fulfill its constitutional duty as a check against the executive branch since Trump's second term started.
Chapter 2: What is the House voting about regarding Trump's executive order?
The vote was 231 to 195, making it downright bipartisan in our current climate. 20 Republicans crossed the aisle to vote with Democrats in favor of the bill. The bill's sponsors reflected the bipartisan nature of the issue. It was introduced by Representative Jared Golden of Maine and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania. Fitzpatrick is a Republican.
Golden took to social media to celebrate the win, posting, quote, Despite all the forces against us, the House has passed my bill to restore union rights to roughly 1 million federal employees. This is solidarity in action. I'm proud of the bipartisan coalition who passed this bill, and I urge the Senate to join us in standing up for workers. It's going to face an uphill battle in the Senate.
The only reason it even made it to a vote in the House, which is full of a lot of anti-worker Republicans, is because a few Republicans crossed over to sign a discharge petition. The executive order that would be nullified uses some pretty stretched logic to move on Trump's union-busting agenda.
The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 has a line that allows the government to yank collective bargaining from, quote, agencies or units within an agency which has as a primary function intelligence, investigative, or national security work.
Trump used this to hit workers in the Department of Energy, Commerce, Health and Human Services, Treasury, and the VA, along with departments that require less mental gymnastics to make it make sense. AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said in a statement, quote, President Trump betrayed workers when he tried to rip away our collective bargaining rights.
In these increasingly polarized times, working people delivered a rare bipartisan majority to stop the administration's unprecedented attacks on our freedoms. We commend the Republicans and Democrats who stood with workers and voted to reverse the single largest act of union busting in American history.
The statement went on to say, quote, As we turn to the Senate, where the bill already has bipartisan support, working people are calling on the politicians we elected to stand with us, even if it means standing up to the union-busting boss in the White House. This is your periodic reminder that when unions win, all of the working class wins. Anyway, it's just a thought. Y'all have a good day.
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