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 Americas 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.
no_hypocrisy
(54,126 posts)ificandream
(11,653 posts)riversedge
(79,186 posts)Marthe48
(22,628 posts)Roy Rolling
(7,392 posts)Honoring the inaugural Gulf of America crossing to Venezuela.
They probably will meet him with flowers. Im sure.
ProfessorGAC
(75,694 posts)How about a few hundred?
I'll even start a crowd source fund for a boat for him.
No motor. Just a boat.
Roy Rolling
(7,392 posts)We dont want him.
SSJVegeta
(2,240 posts)BumRushDaShow
(165,175 posts)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)And im clueless with how it works
Javaman
(65,054 posts)the orange asshole better watch his back.
erronis
(22,487 posts)Once his threats are laughed off, he's done for.
patphil
(8,670 posts)BumRushDaShow
(165,175 posts)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)I thought I heard it tonight from Jen Psaki.
Anybody else hear that?
wolfie001
(6,962 posts)Wounded Bear
(63,768 posts)Just sayin'
Union busting is rampant in corporate America, or at least support for it is.
Ilsa
(63,780 posts)popsdenver
(1,428 posts)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.........
oasis
(53,309 posts)Aussie105
(7,540 posts)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)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)to make it virtually impossible for discharge petitions to succeed.
Initech
(107,245 posts)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.