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BumRushDaShow

(165,175 posts)
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 02:50 PM Dec 11

13 Republicans Vote to Nullify Donald Trump's Executive Order

Source: Newsweek

Published Dec 11, 2025 at 02:52 AM EST updated Dec 11, 2025 at 03:25 AM EST


More than a dozen Republicans defied President Donald Trump on Wednesday by joining Democrats in voting for a bill to nullify a major executive order. The U.S. House of Representatives voted 222-200 to advance a bill that would overturn a major executive order issued by Trump in March, which stripped collective bargaining rights from roughly one million federal workers.

Democratic Representative Jared Golden, who led the bill, forced a vote on it by using a mechanism known as a discharge petition. The Congressional procedure means lawmakers can force a vote on a piece of legislation against the wishes of the leadership on the condition that it has majority support in the House. Newsweek contacted the White House for comment via email outside of regular business hours.

Why It Matters

Golden's bill, called the Protect America’s Workforce Act (PAWA), seeks to restore union rights for employees at agencies central to national security, healthcare, and veterans' affairs, many of whom are veterans themselves.

Trump's executive order banned collective bargaining within multiple federal agencies, including parts of the Departments of Defense, State, Veterans Affairs, Justice, and Energy, as well as some workers in Homeland Security, Treasury, HHS, Interior, and Agriculture.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-vote-nullify-donald-trump-executive-order-federal-unions-11191377



Johnson has consistently been "catching and killing" bills, forcing these discharge petitions. And it's not a good look for their own GOP members to be signing onto them because the GOP is in the majority and that is the only reason why they have been successful getting the discharges (from Committee).

There are very few Teamsters locals among the Feds - The GPO is apparently under them (but feds are mostly AFGE, AFSCME, & NTEU)... but I hope that rogue Teamsters President gets a clue about things to come.
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13 Republicans Vote to Nullify Donald Trump's Executive Order (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Dec 11 OP
Yeah! no_hypocrisy Dec 11 #1
Unions strong! ificandream Dec 11 #2
little mikey should go back to Lousiana and stay there. IMHO riversedge Dec 11 #3
South of Louisiana, just a few nautical miles Marthe48 Dec 11 #13
Send him on a cruise Roy Rolling Dec 11 #15
A Few? ProfessorGAC Dec 11 #20
F that Roy Rolling Dec 11 #14
Whats the word on the senate? SSJVegeta Dec 11 #4
Usually there are "companion" bills for each chamber BumRushDaShow Dec 11 #6
Senators I know have ways of forcing votes too but i dont know about the feasibility of this one... SSJVegeta Dec 11 #9
uh oh the natives are getting restless.. Javaman Dec 11 #5
The dikes are spring leaks. Stubby Fingers can't plug them all. erronis Dec 11 #11
This just reinforces my prediction that Johnson will be replaced as speaker in January. patphil Dec 11 #7
Someone would have to do a motion to "vacate the Chair" BumRushDaShow Dec 11 #8
I think there's a movement in the House to do just that. patphil Dec 11 #22
fat orange imbecile needs a diaper change after that information wolfie001 Dec 11 #10
Godwin's Law - one of the first things Hitler did was abolish the unions... Wounded Bear Dec 11 #12
And before that they went after the Communists. nt Ilsa Dec 12 #24
The Anti-Union movement popsdenver Dec 12 #26
Mikey Mouse should crawl back into a hole 🕳️ oasis Dec 11 #16
Never understood the whole Executive Orders thing. Aussie105 Dec 11 #17
He is MISUSING Executive Orders BumRushDaShow Dec 11 #19
About time for Moses Mike to change the rules... WestMichRad Dec 11 #18
They shouldn't just be nullified. They should all be illegal. Initech Dec 11 #21
The dam is bursting orangecrush Dec 12 #23
Good for thoughs Republicans to show a little life Gum Logger Dec 12 #25

Roy Rolling

(7,392 posts)
15. Send him on a cruise
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 05:41 PM
Dec 11

Honoring the inaugural “Gulf of America” crossing to Venezuela.

They probably will meet him with flowers. I’m sure.

ProfessorGAC

(75,694 posts)
20. A Few?
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 07:01 PM
Dec 11

How about a few hundred?
I'll even start a crowd source fund for a boat for him.
No motor. Just a boat.

BumRushDaShow

(165,175 posts)
6. Usually there are "companion" bills for each chamber
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 03:53 PM
Dec 11

but since this one had to be forced out of Committee to the floor for a vote, I'm not sure if the Senate has a similar one ready or whether they were going to just look at what the House sends and vote on it "as is" (if Thune even bothers to allow it), or modify it, get it past cloture & debate/vote on it, and then send it back to the House.

Often stuff like this gets added on vehicles like that NDAA.

SSJVegeta

(2,240 posts)
9. Senators I know have ways of forcing votes too but i dont know about the feasibility of this one...
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 05:08 PM
Dec 11

And im clueless with how it works

erronis

(22,487 posts)
11. The dikes are spring leaks. Stubby Fingers can't plug them all.
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 05:29 PM
Dec 11

Once his threats are laughed off, he's done for.

BumRushDaShow

(165,175 posts)
8. Someone would have to do a motion to "vacate the Chair"
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 04:42 PM
Dec 11

in order for that to happen since the SOH election normally happens at the start of each 2-year Congressional class (there are "2" sessions per), and January 2026 starts the "2nd" session of the 119th Congress.

January 2027 would start the 1st session of the 120th Congress with a normal election of the SOH.

The threshold to vacate was increased at the beginning of this current session (I think they need 8 co-sponsors or something like that vs 1, which was the threshold previously).

patphil

(8,670 posts)
22. I think there's a movement in the House to do just that.
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 10:11 PM
Dec 11

I thought I heard it tonight from Jen Psaki.
Anybody else hear that?

Wounded Bear

(63,768 posts)
12. Godwin's Law - one of the first things Hitler did was abolish the unions...
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 05:35 PM
Dec 11

Just sayin'

Union busting is rampant in corporate America, or at least support for it is.

popsdenver

(1,428 posts)
26. The Anti-Union movement
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 02:03 PM
Dec 12

was first rolled out by Reagan (actually everything that happened in those eight years was directed by HWBush)
When they fired the PATCO Union members, in mass, it was the shot heard round the world.
But esp in the trades in the U.S. being let known that the NLRB was getting neutered and that the Corporations and Businesses that had Unions, would be wide open to decimate the unions, even illegally, or corruptly, during the 1980's.....AND they did.........

Aussie105

(7,540 posts)
17. Never understood the whole Executive Orders thing.
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 06:16 PM
Dec 11

America was founded on many things, one of them being getting out from under the control of a King with unlimited powers.

Then to give a POTUS King like powers seems so contradictory.

In the hands of a lunatic, executive orders can do a lot of damage.

How many of those has Trump signed over the years?

Answer: 192 in 2025, 220 in his first term.

BumRushDaShow

(165,175 posts)
19. He is MISUSING Executive Orders
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 06:57 PM
Dec 11

They are SUPPOSED TO BE "guidance" for the Executive Branch agencies that a law applies to, on how to carry out that law.

So for example, say Congress passes a law with funding, to carry out a paving project on certain designated interstate highways - then the E.O. would direct the Department of Transportation to work with its relevant agencies to set up requirements and impact analyses, and work with states to coordinate permits, construction contracts, etc., and develop a timeline for the work, with regular status updates provided at some interval.

Instead, he is using E.O.s to make "new law", which is illegal.

So in the above example, he may instead create an E.O. that ignores the list of localities cited in the law for the paving project, replacing them with the locations he wants, and then will redirect any leftover funding originally authorized by Congress, for some other use.

WestMichRad

(2,886 posts)
18. About time for Moses Mike to change the rules...
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 06:25 PM
Dec 11

… to make it virtually impossible for discharge petitions to succeed.

Initech

(107,245 posts)
21. They shouldn't just be nullified. They should all be illegal.
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 08:58 PM
Dec 11

And the scary psychopaths at the Heritage Foundation - EVERY SINGLE LAST FUCKING ONE OF THEM - need to be arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy to commit treason against the United States. Fuck the Heritage Foundation.

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