Overview
- Five Republicans—Mike Lawler, Nick LaLota, Brian Fitzpatrick, Rob Bresnahan and Don Bacon—joined Democrats to push the petition over the top.
- The Protect America’s Workforce Act seeks to reinstate collective bargaining rights revoked for federal employees in national security-related roles.
- Trump’s executive order affected roughly one million workers across 18 federal agencies, according to supporters of the bill.
- The discharge petition bypasses Speaker Mike Johnson’s opposition and guarantees an up-or-down vote on the measure.
- Major labor groups, including the AFL-CIO and AFGE, backed the effort, and the House is also set to consider separate bipartisan legislation from Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie on Tuesday.