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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Exempts Agencies with National Security Missions from Federal Collective Bargaining Requirements [1]

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Date: 2025-03-28 01:03:42+00:00

Fact Sheets Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Exempts Agencies with National Security Missions from Federal Collective Bargaining Requirements

PROTECTING OUR NATIONAL SECURITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order using authority granted by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA) to end collective bargaining with Federal unions in the following agencies with national security missions:

National Defense . Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and Coast Guard. VA serves as the backstop healthcare provider for wounded troops in wartime. NSF-funded research supports military and cybersecurity breakthroughs.

Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and Coast Guard. Border Security . Department of Homeland Security (DHS) leadership components, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Executive Office of Immigration Review, and the Office of Refugee Resettlement within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) leadership components, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Executive Office of Immigration Review, and the Office of Refugee Resettlement within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Foreign Relations . Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development, Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration, and U.S. International Trade Commission. President Trump has demonstrated how trade policy is a national security tool.

Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development, Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration, and U.S. International Trade Commission. Energy Security . Department of Energy, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Environmental Protection Agency, and Department of Interior units that govern domestic energy production. The same Congress that passed the CSRA declared that energy insecurity threatens national security.

Department of Energy, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Environmental Protection Agency, and Department of Interior units that govern domestic energy production. Pandemic Preparedness, Prevention, and Response . Within HHS, the Secretary’s Office, Office of General Counsel, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, Food and Drug Administration, and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In the Department of Agriculture, the Office of General Counsel, Food Safety and Inspection Service, and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. COVID-19 and the recent bird flu have demonstrated how foreign pandemics affect national security. VA is also a backstop healthcare provider during national emergencies, and served this role during COVID-19.

Within HHS, the Secretary’s Office, Office of General Counsel, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, Food and Drug Administration, and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In the Department of Agriculture, the Office of General Counsel, Food Safety and Inspection Service, and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Cybersecurity . The Office of the Chief Information Officer in each cabinet-level department, as well as DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and the General Services Administration (GSA). The FCC protects the reliability and security of America’s telecommunications networks. GSA provides cybersecurity related services to agencies and ensures they do not use compromised telecommunications products.

The Office of the Chief Information Officer in each cabinet-level department, as well as DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and the General Services Administration (GSA). Economic Defense. Department of Treasury. The Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) defines national security to include protecting America’s economic and productive strength. The Treasury Department collects the taxes that fund the government and ensures the stable operations of the financial system.

Department of Treasury. Public Safety. Most components of the Department of Justice as well as the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Most components of the Department of Justice as well as the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Law Enforcement Unaffected. Police and firefighters will continue to collectively bargain.

ENSURING THAT AGENCIES OPERATE EFFECTIVELY: The CSRA enables hostile Federal unions to obstruct agency management. This is dangerous in agencies with national security responsibilities:

Agencies cannot modify policies in collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) until they expire. The outgoing Biden Administration renegotiated many agencies’ CBAs to last through President Trump’s second term.

Agencies cannot make most contractually permissible changes until after finishing “midterm” union bargaining. For example, the FLRA ruled that ICE could not modify cybersecurity policies without giving its union an opportunity to negotiate, and then completing midterm bargaining.

Unions used these powers to block the implementation of the VA Accountability Act; the Biden Administration had to offer reinstatement and backpay to over 4,000 unionized employees that the VA had removed for poor performance or misconduct.

SAFEGUARDING AMERICAN INTERESTS: President Trump is taking action to ensure that agencies vital to national security can execute their missions without delay and protect the American people. The President needs a responsive and accountable civil service to protect our national security.

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