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The bill preserves existing federal labor protections and contract terms—protecting employees and providing near-term budget predictability—while limiting agencies' ability to implement reforms and potentially maintaining higher personnel costs for taxpayers until contracts expire.
Federal employees and unions keep existing collective-bargaining protections and negotiated pay, benefits, and contract terms until current contracts expire.
Federal agencies retain predictable labor costs and staffing rules for the duration of current agreements, aiding agency budgeting and operational planning.
Taxpayers and agencies avoid expenditures that would have been used to implement the executive order, saving implementation costs.
Taxpayers may face higher personnel costs because preserving existing contracts and collective-bargaining protections keeps legacy pay and benefit commitments in place until contracts lapse.
Federal agencies and managers have reduced flexibility to change workplace rules or implement reforms until current contracts expire, potentially delaying policy or management changes.
Federal agencies and employees may face legal or administrative uncertainty as agencies revert to prior rules and guidance after the executive order is nullified.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Nullifies a March 27, 2025 Executive Order restricting participation in federal labor-management relations, bars federal funds to implement it, and preserves existing federal collective bargaining agreements in effect March 26, 2025.
Repeals (declares void) a specific Executive Order issued March 27, 2025 that excluded certain entities from federal labor-management relations programs and bars federal funds from being used to implement that Executive Order. It also preserves any collective bargaining agreements between executive branch agencies and exclusive employee representatives that were in effect on March 26, 2025, leaving those agreements unchanged until they expire under their own terms.
Introduced April 1, 2025 by Jared Golden · Last progress December 15, 2025