Former President Joe Biden was quite the busy man in the lead-up to his ouster from the White House, but with the stroke of many pens, President Donald Trump continues to erase his predecessor's doings.
According to Fox News, Trump is expected to sign a memo that lifts the collective bargaining agreements (CBA) put into place by Biden shortly before he left office, which affects federal workers.
The memo will urge all federal agencies to reject Biden's last-minute CBAs, which were largely put in place to prevent Trump from reforming the government to his liking.
Trump's memo largely affects the remote federal workforce, which were terms included in many of the CBAs struck with the Biden administration .
Trump's memo was crystal clear. It instructed federal agencies to not make collective bargaining agreements within the last 30 days of a president's term.
Heads of federal agencies were instructed to reject any CBAs struck with the former president during his last 30 days in office.
Fox News noted an example of one of the CBAs struck by the Biden administration during his last days in office.
Biden’s Social Security Administration Commissioner, Martin O’Malley, in December 2024 came to an agreement with the American Federation of Government Employees guaranteeing that the agency’s 42,000 employees would not have to work in office during the Trump administration.
Fox News added:
The White House told Fox News Digital that the new policy "ensures the American people get the policies they voted for, instead of being stuck with the wasteful and ineffective Biden policies rejected at the ballot box."
A White House fact sheet regarding the issue claimed that Biden simply tried to tie Trump's hands in the final days of his time in the White House.
"The outgoing Biden administration negotiated lame-duck, multi-year collective bargaining agreements — during the week before the inauguration — in an attempt to tie the incoming Trump administration’s hands," the sheet read.
The White House justified its move by saying that the CBAs in place would only prevent Trump from following through on his promise to return federal workers to the office.
"These CBAs attempt to prevent President Trump from implementing his promises to the American people, such as returning Federal employees to the office to make government operate more efficiently," the White House said.
It added, "President Biden’s term of office ended on January 20th. Under this memorandum, he and future Presidents cannot govern agencies after leaving office by locking in last-minute CBAs."
Anti-Trump Democrats are already throwing hissy fits over the move. But what else is new?
