Home Dem lobbies Senate to reverse Trump federal union order after 20 Republicans defy GOP

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EXCLUSIVE: Bipartisan Home lawmakers are actively lobbying the Senate to take motion on a invoice reversing President Donald Trump's govt order on federal employee unions, a average Democrat stated.

Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, efficiently pressured a vote on his laws Thursday night regardless of little urge for food from the vast majority of Home Republicans. It handed, nevertheless, with 20 GOP lawmakers’ support — a big quantity at a time when few within the celebration are keen to publicly butt heads with Trump.

"After I stated on the Home ground that union collective bargaining rights usually are not a partisan subject, I meant it," Golden advised Fox Information Digital in an unique interview. "The best proof of that's union members themselves. They vote Democrat, they vote Republican. They do not all vote, however they could vote in the event that they knew that somebody supported their collective bargaining rights."

Golden launched his bill in April and a companion was introduced ahead within the Senate in September. It has help from two Republicans as of now — Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine — the latter of which appeared to signal on after Home passage on Thursday night.

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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters from his Mar-a-Lago property on Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, 2025, in Palm Seashore, Fla. (Alex Brandon/AP Photograph)

"I did not speak to her final evening, however I am actually glad to see her on. It isn't a shock to me. She's supported unions on sure points up to now, so she's clearly a very important senator ," stated Golden, who labored for Collins earlier than coming to Congress himself.

He did say he spoke with "just a few" senators after the invoice handed however added, "the actual push is gonna be coming within the days and weeks forward."

And Golden shouldn't be lobbying senators alone — he stated Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., a average Republican who championed the invoice within the Home, is working alongside him.

Fox Information Digital reached out to Fitzpatrick’s workplace for remark.

"As you most likely noticed, it was a protracted course of within the Home, so that you’ve acquired to remain dogged and be affected person. It is necessary to do it in a manner that is bipartisan, to create area for members of each events to work collectively," Golden stated. "I made positive all alongside that the Republican co-sponsors of the invoice have been comfy with our messaging and likewise the steps that we have been taking, so it is gonna should be similar to that within the Senate, too."

Golden stated he anticipated extra Republican senators to signal on within the coming days.

Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, attends a information convention within the Capitol Customer Middle in Washington, July 17, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc by way of Getty Photographs)

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., for example, has not backed the laws as of Friday afternoon, however Golden stated he was a "nice instance" of somebody who’s "proven himself to be pro-labor."

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Hawley has additionally beforehand launched his personal bipartisan pro-union laws earlier this yr that will pace up the labor contract course of for brand new unions. That invoice is endorsed by Teamsters Common President Sean O’Brien, a buddy of the lawmaker’s.

Fox Information Digital reached out to Collins, Murkowski and Hawley’s places of work for additional remark.

Golden acquired his invoice handed by submitting it as a discharge petition, which is designed to power a vote on laws over the needs of management, offered it will get help from a majority of Home lawmakers.

Discharge petitions are hardly ever profitable within the Home however have been used extra often this yr as Republicans grapple with a razor-thin majority.

In Golden's case, 5 Home Republicans had signed onto the petition together with 213 Democrats — Fitzpatrick and Reps. Rob Bresnahan, R-Pa., Don Bacon, R-Neb., Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., and Nick LaLota, R-N.Y.

In the meantime, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., launched the companion model of Golden’s laws in September. He stated in a press release to Fox Information Digital, "The bipartisan momentum within the Home solely strengthens our hand within the Senate, and I intend to construct on it."

Chair Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, prepares for a Senate Appropriations Committee listening to on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc by way of Getty Photographs)

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Collins, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Golden have a relationship that dates again to his first time in Washington, D.C., not as a lawmaker, however as a staffer for the longtime Maine senator. They’re additionally each recognized to buck their respective events.

Simply earlier than Golden’s profitable vote, Collins joined Senate Democrats to again their three-year extension of expiring Obamacare subsidies.

However Warner’s invoice has sat within the Senate Homeland Safety and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Rand Paul , for a number of months. Whether or not it survives committee is unclear, on condition that Paul has launched a number of right-to-work payments through the years.

Republican opponents of the invoice have stated federal employees' unions usually are not the identical as labor unions within the non-public sector, arguing that collective bargaining is a distinct state of affairs when working towards People' personal elected officers reasonably than for-profit corporations.

Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox Information Digital main protection of the Home of Representatives. Earlier digital bylines seen at Each day Mail and CBS Information.