Republicans are on track to take the majority of board seats on an independent agency that administers labor management for federal workers after a Senate panel approved President Donald Trump’s nominee.
The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted to advance Trump’s pick, who is set to give GOP appointees two of the three seats on the Federal Labor Relations Authority. The nomination was approved in a 7-2 vote. Several Democrats who didn’t attend the hearing registered their dissent by proxy.
The board had been in a partisan deadlock since Trump fired FLRA Chair Susan Tsui Grundmann in February, one ...
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