Labor Board Urged to ‘Change Course’ on Reported Funding Freeze (1)

A pair of Democrats asked the labor board April 25 to assure them the agency won’t do an end run around Congress and freeze funding as part of the White House’s reported attempt to claw back billions from the spending bill passed last month.

“We remind you that Congress, not the Administration, has the ultimate authority to set funding levels for executive branch agencies,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) wrote in a letter, obtained by Bloomberg Law and addressed to National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Peter Robb. “Any actions to unilaterally reduce spending” would ...