As if further evidence were needed, news on Feb. 6 that two federal employee unions have filed suit hoping to halt the Trump administration’s planned shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) demonstrates yet again that Big Labor is at least as interested in advancing a radically woke political agenda to the world at large as it is advocating for its membership at home.
The complaint was filed by the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA), which represents 80 percent of those working for the U.S. Foreign Service — including nearly 2,000 USAID Foreign Service Officers — as well as the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which boasts a membership of 800,000 federal civilian employees.
As of Feb. 7, nearly all of the agency’s 10,000 employees in the U.S. and overseas were placed on paid leave while…
