The Biden Administration just won’t give up on trying to have things its way — whether it’s abiding by the Constitution or not. We’ve seen this with student loan “forgiveness,” which the Supreme Court slapped down but the White House just continues to release executive orders handing out more of taxpayers’ money.
The latest issue is on employers and their relationships with independent contractors. Recall that Congress stopped the Administration’s onerous PRO Act from becoming law.
The Biden Administration tried to sneak it into the 2021 infrastructure bill, then when Republicans and some Dems (like now-Independent Kyrsten Sinema) blocked that, they began the process via another avenue–through the Department of Labor making a rule.
The leftists kept at it. In January 2024, as my colleague Jennifer Oliver O’Connell wrote, the Biden Acting Labor Secretary, Julie Su, released…