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Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, U.S. Representative Scott Perry’s (PA-10) Protecting Taxpayers’ Wallet Act passed the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. The bill requires federal employee unions to reimburse federal agencies for resources spent each quarter.

“Forcing the American Taxpayer to foot the bill for federal union organizing is outrageous and absurd,” said Congressman Perry. “If federal employees and resources are going to be used for union tasks, the unions should foot the bill.”

Early results of a 2024 House Oversight investigation show frequent, official time abuses across the U.S. government. Agencies from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to the Social Security Administration allow highly paid, critical/essential employees to spend 100% of official work time on union activity, instead of the work they were actually hired to do.

“This bill would shift the financial burden of supporting such official time away from the taxpayers to the federal employee union organizations. It would shock American taxpayers that federal employees are being paid to work substantial hours in support of public sector unions instead of the agency operations, missions, and programs they were hired for in the first place,” said House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (KY-1).

The bill discourages federal employee unions from using “official time” at the public’s expense. American Taxpayers are paying government employees to do a job – not the bidding and strategizing of unions.

To read the bill, click here.