The House passed H.R. 1, the budget reconciliation bill, without the proposed cuts to employee pay, benefits, and rights.   
 
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is the budget reconciliation legislation, by a vote of 218-214. This comes days after the Senate narrowly passed H.R. 1 following a marathon vote-a-rama. H.R. 1 now goes to President Trump for his signature.
 
NTEU and our allies were successful in our fight to remove several anti-worker provisions from the bill, including those requiring employees to pay more for their retirement or become at-will, charging unions for the use of agency resources and official time, charging employees a fee to bring cases to the MSPB, cutting employee retirement benefits, requiring unions to pay a 10% service fee to the government for the payroll deduction of union dues, and others. The text retained the border security funding language, including the House-passed provision to hire an additional 5,000 CBP Officers.
 
This could not have been done without the hard work of NTEU members and other federal employees calling and writing their members of Congress demanding that they exclude attacks on federal workers from the reconciliation bill. Thank you for all of your efforts. While we can breathe a sigh of relief, this is no time to rest. During an interview Tuesday night, Speaker Johnson said the House will plan to do two more reconciliation bills during this session of Congress, which means we could very well see similar attacks on the federal workforce again.
  
Doreen P. Greenwald
National President