Brandon Gill: “I strongly oppose this bill because it would jeopardize our national security, and it locks in harmful last-minute…”

“I strongly oppose this bill because it would jeopardize our national security, and it locks in harmful last-minute agreements from the Biden administration. Union bosses love this bill for one reason: It protects their telework perk. It also shields them from accountability and gives them effective veto power over a duly elected President with a mandate to clean up a bloated Federal bureaucracy. Specifically, this legislation would nullify President Trump's executive order titled 'Exclusions From Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs.' The executive order wisely designated various agencies as having a national security focus as their primary functions and exempts them from collective bargaining. Union officials do not and should not have the right to use their collective bargaining power to undermine President Trump and jeopardize our national security. One example of this just fairly recently is ICE not being able to modify cybersecurity policies without giving its union bosses an opportunity to negotiate, delaying needed cybersecurity updates. In another example, union bosses threatened to block the Office of Personnel Management from implementing basic IT security controls. There is a troubling pattern where union bosses block measures that they don't like, forgetting that they work for the American people and not the other way around.”