White House Proposes Cut in Labor Department Spending

The Trump administration wants to cut spending on the Labor Department, National Labor Relations Board, and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for fiscal year 2021, reviving previous belt-tightening bids that haven’t been approved by Congress.

Deep Cuts: The White House budget request seeks $11 billion for DOL next year, down 11% from the department’s current funding level. The NLRB would see a 10% spending slash, while the EEOC budget would slip by 7% under the proposal.

Safety First: Spending by the federal government’s largest worker safety agencies in fiscal year 2021 would be largely unchanged from 2020, the proposed budget request ...