Federal employees paid by the government to work for the Unions

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Taxpayers spent $207 million under Biden ...

to pay federal government employees not for their official government jobs but for hours worked for unions in the 2024 fiscal year, President Joe Biden’s final year in office.

According to data exclusively provided first to The Daily Signal, federal employees worked 3.2 million hours for unions in 2024, about 11.25% of their overall work time.

Federal employees can bill the taxpayer for working with unions by negotiating contracts, resolving disputes, or doing other work for the union.

The Office of Personnel Management tracks how many hours employees bill the taxpayer for union work, and the OPM under President Donald Trump issued a March memo demanding the data.

The American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal government union, has filed at least nine lawsuits against the Trump administration, and bureaucrats may have used taxpayer-funded union time to help those efforts. Other unions that represent federal employees have also funded left-wing activist groups that are suing the administration.

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