Labor Agencies Face Biden Enforcement Push Without Extra Funding

The collapse of talks on Democrats’ tax and social spending legislation has put labor-focused agencies in a difficult position—they face increased enforcement demands under the Biden agenda but can’t bank on an infusion of extra cash to support those efforts.

The House-passed version of the Build Back Better Act—now in need of a political resurrection after moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) balked at supporting it—would’ve spread $2.117 billion in additional enforcement funding between the U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the National Labor Relations Board.

The funding would grease the wheels of the Biden administration’s ...