Senator Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., introduced companion versions of the No Union Time on the Taxpayers’ Dime Act on April 7.
This bill, which calls for eliminating taxpayer funding of federal employees working for their unions, is more relevant now than when first introduced in 2024.
That’s because the Trump administration not only reinstated agency requirements to measure and report what’s called official time; it also signed an executive order precluding wide swaths of federal agencies and offices from engaging in collective bargaining agreements with unions and preventing federal workers in those agencies from engaging in official time.
Official Time Is Work-for-a-Union Time on the Taxpayer’s Dime
Official time is essentially unlimited paid union leave.
Under the banner of official time, federal employees are dismissed from…
