On Wednesday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) blocked an effort broadly supported by his own caucus to force a vote on restoring crucial labor protections for federal workers that were revoked by President Donald Trump earlier this year.

A Democrat-led petition on the “Protect America’s Workforce Act” is just two signatures short of the 218-member threshold it needs to bypass GOP leadership and force a vote on the legislation. The bill would reverse a Trump executive order that removed collective bargaining rights from hundreds of thousands of federal employees — a major blow to labor rights in the heavily unionized sector.

Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Arizona), coming off of her confirmation long delayed by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), tried to sign the

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