Republican lawmakers want to rein in the amount of time federal employees spend on union time—including activities such as lobbying Congress and negotiating more benefits—during taxpayer-paid worktime.
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, the chair of the Senate DOGE Caucus, recently introduced the Protecting Taxpayers’ Wallets Act, and Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa. introduced companion legislation in the House.
Taxpayer-funded union time, with the acronym TFUT, has long been a part of government, and Ernst’s office has exposed abuses of the practice in the past.
Ernst and the DOGE Caucus are working with the Trump administration’s newly formed temporary Department of Government Efficiency initiative, also known as DOGE.
“Federal employees have been on a four-year vacation from work but were quite busy locking in pay raises and cushy telework agreements with the…
