The Trump administration is one of the most anti-labor administrations in modern U.S. history — it has attempted to decertify the union representation of more than 1 million federal employees . Trump has also fired key members of the National Labor Relations Board , thus rendering it largely non-functional. Moreover his administration has come out against rules requiring disabled workers all be paid at least the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour , and it has blocked a Biden-era rule increasing the minimum wage for federal contractors.

Despite faux-populist credentials and a claim to be addressing the forgotten multitudes, Trump 2.0 is simply following modern Republican Party orthodoxy. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 per hour since 2009, with the GOP stymying

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