Back to business as usual down in D.C.
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as it was, so it will ever be
Twenty House Republicans joined Democrats to pass a bill reversing President Donald Trump's executive order blocking most federal unions on Thursday.
The bill was led by Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, who got a vote on his measure by filing a discharge petition. It's designed to force a vote on legislation over the wishes of leadership provided it gets support from a majority of House lawmakers.
The bill, called the Protect America's Workforce Act, is aimed at repealing a March 2025 executive order by Trump.
The final vote passed 231 to 195, with all the "no" votes coming from Republicans.
That could have been 211-215, and the executive order would have stood, but the Democrats have party discipline, Republicans do not.
Nothing Trump achieves through his executive power will last past the first day in office of the next Democrat president.