Provision to protect DOD civilians’ union rights stripped from NDAA

House leaders have stripped a bipartisan provision aimed at protecting civilian Defense Department workers’ collective bargaining rights after Senate Republicans balked at the prospect of clashing with President Trump over his efforts to excise unions from most federal agencies.Last July, the House Armed Services Committee voted to bar the Pentagon’s use of fiscal 2026 funds to implement Trump’s March executive order stripping two-thirds of the federal workforce of their collec