Two key Senate Republicans join push to overturn Trump's federal union order
A pair of prominent Senate Republicans has joined Senate Democrats in support of legislation that would roll back President Donald Trump’s executive order on federal unions, but whether the bill...
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A pair of prominent Senate Republicans has joined Senate Democrats in support of legislation that would roll back President Donald Trump’s executive order on federal unions, but whether the bill gets a vote remains in the air. The House last week passed its version of the bill from Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, dubbed the American Workers Protection Act, that would reverse a March executive order barring collective bargaining for most federal unions across a variety of agencies, like the Departments of War, Justice, State, Energy and Veterans Affairs. That bill succeeded in the lower chamber with the aid of nearly two dozen House Republicans, but the same level of support among Senate Republicans is unlikely. HOUSE DEMOCRAT PUSHES SENATE TO REVERSE TRUMP FEDERAL UNION ORDER AFTER GOP REVOLT BY 20 REPUBLICANS So far, only Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, have signed on as co-sponsors to the Senate’s version of the bill, first introduced by Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., in September. Collins, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, said in a statement to Fox News Digital that she agreed with Golden that "collective bargaining, which is afforded to federal employees under the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, should be restored." And Murkowski argued that the country’s federal employees "deserved these protections." 20 REPUBLICANS VOTE WITH DEMS TO REVERSE TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER ON FEDERAL UNIONS "Collective bargaining rights and workplace protections have lifted up federal employees across the United States for decades, protecting them from unsafe working conditions and political retribution," she said in a statement to Fox News Digital. The push to nix Trump’s order likely won’t see the same level of bipartisan support in the upper chamber, given that the bill is currently sitting in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Rand Paul , R-Ky., who has introduced several right-to-work bills, and becaus…