H.R. 2550: Protect America's Workforce Act
Sponsor
Jared Golden
Democrat · ME-2
Bill Progress
Latest Action · Dec 15, 2025
Passed the House, received in Senate
The House voted to save federal union contracts
Why it matters
One March 2025 executive order pulled entire federal agencies out of collective bargaining, putting the union contracts their workers already signed at risk. H.R. 2550 wipes that order off the books, blocks any federal money from carrying it out, and keeps every contract in force on March 26, 2025 alive through its full term. The House passed it 231-195.
H.R. 2550 targets one thing: an executive order titled "Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs," issued March 27, 2025. The bill says that order has no force or effect.
It also cuts off the money. If H.R. 2550 becomes law, no federal funds could be spent carrying the order out.
The real-world effect lands on contracts already on the books. If a union contract between a federal agency and a workers' representative was in force on March 26, 2025 — the day before the order — it stays in effect through whatever end date the contract already spells out.
So this isn't about writing new labor rights. It's about locking in the workplace rules federal employees were already operating under. Contracts active by that cutoff get the protection; contracts that weren't yet in force by then don't get the same automatic guarantee.
H.R. 2550 Bill Summary
What H.R. 2550 actually does.
The March 27 labor order is voided
H.R. 2550 declares that the executive order titled "Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs," issued March 27, 2025, has no force or effect.
No federal dollars can carry the order out
The bill bars any federal funds from being obligated or spent to implement that March 27, 2025 order.
Existing union contracts hold through their term
Any collective bargaining agreement in force on March 26, 2025 between an executive branch agency and a union representing federal employees keeps full effect through its stated end date.
The protection spans the executive branch
Contract protection applies across executive branch federal agencies, not a single department or office.
Who benefits from H.R. 2550?
Federal workers under active union contracts
If your contract was in force on March 26, 2025, you keep the grievance procedures, bargaining terms, and workplace rules you were already working under.
Federal employee unions
Unions with agreements already in place get assurance those contracts can't be cut short by the March 27, 2025 order.
Agencies running on existing agreements
Departments would keep operating under the labor contracts already in place rather than switching terms midstream.
Who is affected by H.R. 2550?
The White House and agencies implementing the order
They would have to stop treating the March 27, 2025 order as operative and could not spend federal money to carry it out.
Federal labor relations staff
Officials handling bargaining and workplace disputes would keep applying the contract terms in force on March 26, 2025.
Workers whose contracts weren't yet in force by March 26, 2025
They fall outside the bill's automatic protection, because H.R. 2550 draws a fixed cutoff date.
HR2550 Legislative Journey
Sent to Senate
Dec 15, 2025
Received in the Senate.
House: Passed 231-195
Dec 11, 2025
On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 231 - 195 (Roll no. 332). (text: CR H5795)
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House: Committee Action
Apr 1, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
About the Sponsor
Jared Golden
Democrat, Maine's 2nd congressional district · 7 years in Congress
Committees: Natural Resources, Armed Services
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Cosponsors (226)
This bill has 226 cosponsors: 217 Democrats, 9 Republicans. Cosponsors represent 40 states: Alabama, Arizona, California, and 37 more.
Brian Fitzpatrick
Republican · PA
Donald Norcross
Democrat · NJ
Nick LaLota
Republican · NY
Mark Pocan
Democrat · WI
Michael Turner
Republican · OH
Debbie Dingell
Democrat · MI
Michael Lawler
Republican · NY
Dina Titus
Democrat · NV
Don Bacon
Republican · NE
CLEO FIELDS
Democrat · LA
Seth Moulton
Democrat · MA
Eleanor Norton
Democrat · DC
Cosponsor Coverage Map
Committee Sponsors
Oversight and Government Reform Committee
22 of 47 committee members cosponsored
H.R. 2550 Quick Facts
- Committee
- Oversight and Government Reform
- Chamber
- House
- Policy
- Labor and Employment
- Introduced
- Apr 1, 2025
Passed the House, received in Senate
Dec 15, 2025
Official Sources
Official legislative status page for the Protect America's Workforce Act, useful for confirming House passage and Senate receipt.
The March 27, 2025 executive order H.R. 2550 would nullify, hosted in full on the government's official presidential documents archive.
The Federal Labor Relations Authority's official text of the statute that grants the collective bargaining rights the bill seeks to protect.
Overview of the independent agency that administers labor-management relations for most federal employees affected by this bill.
Official U.S. Code text for the chapter on federal service labor-management relations, which supplies the legal framework for the contracts H.R. 2550 protects.
Congressional Research Service analysis of Executive Order 14251 and the legal basis for excluding agencies from collective bargaining.
H.R. 2550 Common Questions
What does H.R. 2550 do?
It voids a March 27, 2025 White House labor order and keeps federal union contracts that were in force on March 26, 2025 valid through their stated end dates.
Has H.R. 2550 passed?
It passed the House 231-195 on December 11, 2025, and was received in the Senate on December 15. It still needs a Senate vote, and it would face a likely veto.
What was the March 27 executive order H.R. 2550 targets?
An order titled "Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs." It pulled specified executive agencies out of the federal collective bargaining system. H.R. 2550 says it has no force or effect.
Which union contracts are protected under H.R. 2550?
Contracts between executive branch agencies and unions representing federal employees, as long as they were already in force on March 26, 2025.
How long do protected contracts stay in effect?
Through the contract's stated term. H.R. 2550 doesn't make them permanent — it preserves each one until its existing end date.
What if a contract took effect after March 26, 2025?
It falls outside the automatic protection. The bill draws a fixed cutoff, so only agreements in force by March 26, 2025 are covered.
Is H.R. 2550 bipartisan?
Mostly Democratic, but not entirely. Sponsored by Rep. Jared Golden, it drew more than 220 cosponsors, including several Republicans like Brian Fitzpatrick and Don Bacon.
Does H.R. 2550 create new union rights for federal workers?
No. It preserves contracts already in place and undoes one specific executive order. It doesn't build a new bargaining system.
Based on H.R. 2550 bill text
H.R. 2550 Bill Text
“To nullify the Executive Order relating to Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs, and for other purposes.”
Source: U.S. Government Publishing Office
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