Trump Axes $15 Contractor Wage, Infrastructure Project Orders

President Donald Trump scrapped Biden-era executive orders that raised the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 and drove federal infrastructure investments toward companies that agree to union neutrality.

The president also nixed an order directing federal agencies to incentivize the use of registered apprenticeships by their contractors.

The rescissions came late Friday and add to Trump’s revocation of more than six dozen executive orders on Inauguration Day.

Trump’s move to cancel the contractor pay raise, which started to apply to new or renewed federal contracts in 2022, comes after some businesses and several Republican-led states sued over the executive ...