As much as the Trump administration claims to care for families and wants to encourage having children, you wouldn’t know it from its actions. In its latest move to make life harder for federal employees, the termination of union contracts for roughly 400,000 employees at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs leaves expectant parents in the lurch.

Lower courts blocked President Donald Trump’s March executive order purporting to be able to arbitrarily cancel union contracts covering hundreds of thousands of federal workers. But federal appeals courts lifted those injunctions earlier this month, so Trump gets to do this while the litigation proceeds. The VA was the first agency to terminate nearly all its union contracts, but since Trump’s executive order had a carveout for unions that suppor

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