The entrenched Deep State has been Donald Trump's biggest opposition.
Now, he can finally fight them without one hand tied behind his back.
And a judge gave the green light for one Trump plan to dismantle the Deep State.
Federal Employee Unions Funneled 98% of Donations to Democrats
Federal unions are not like the union your grandfather joined at the steel mill.
Federal employee unions exist to do one thing – protect government workers from the people who are supposed to be running the government.
The American Federation of Government Employees alone represents 800,000 federal workers, and in the 2024 election cycle it funneled nearly 98% of its political donations to Democrats.
That's not a labor organization. That's a Democrat Party political machine with a government office building attached.
When Democrat politicians win elections, they sit across the table from these same unions and negotiate contracts that protect government employees from being held accountable – or fired – by the next Republican administration.
It's a cycle of corruption that runs on your tax dollars.
9th Circuit Clears Trump to Strip Collective Bargaining From 800,000 Federal Workers
On March 27, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14251, stripping collective bargaining rights from federal agencies with national security functions – the Departments of Justice, State, Defense, Treasury, and Health and Human Services among them.
Six unions sued immediately, claiming Trump issued the order to retaliate against them for challenging other administration policies.
A liberal Obama-appointed district judge in San Francisco agreed and blocked the order.
Then the 9th Circuit – yes, that 9th Circuit – stepped in and vacated the injunction.
Trump-appointed Circuit Judge Daniel Bress wrote the ruling, finding that Trump's executive order "discloses no retaliatory animus on its face" and that the president's "primary – if not only – concern with union activity was its interference with national security."
Trump has the legal authority to do this. The unions' lawsuit doesn't hold up.
The Democrat Party's 50-Year Stranglehold on the Federal Workforce
This fight isn't new.
Franklin Roosevelt – Democrat President, hero of the Left – warned Congress in 1937 that collective bargaining "cannot be transplanted into the public service" and has "insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management."
Roosevelt understood something every Democrat politician today pretends not to know: government workers serve the public, not a union boss.
Jimmy Carter codified federal collective bargaining rights into law in 1978, and for nearly 50 years the arrangement has functioned as a permanent jobs program for Democrat Party loyalists inside the federal government.
Administrations come and go every four or eight years.
Federal employees stay for decades, protected by union contracts that make firing them nearly impossible – regardless of how badly they undermine the work they were hired to do.
Trump can't drain the swamp if the swamp has a contract preventing it.
The Deep State's Last Legal Shield Is Crumbling
This ruling strips the shield protecting Deep State bureaucrats from accountability – and it lets federal agencies alter working conditions, fire underperforming employees, and cut through the grievance process unions used for years to block Trump policy before it got started.
The unions aren't done fighting.
AFGE President Everett Kelley vows to "pursue every legal avenue available," and the full 9th Circuit could still revisit the ruling. The case is headed to a final merits decision, and Supreme Court review is likely.
The legal momentum has shifted decisively. As of today, agencies are already terminating collective bargaining agreements. The injunction that protected those agreements is gone.
Democrats spent 50 years building a government that could outlast any Republican president – stocked with loyalists, protected by union contracts, and funded by your tax dollars.
The 9th Circuit just handed Trump the wrecking ball.
Sources:
- Ward Clark, "Appeals Court: Trump Now Allowed to Oust Public-Sector Unions," RedState, February 27, 2026.
- Stephen Dinan, "Appeals court backs Trump's union-stripping executive order," Washington Times, February 26, 2026.
- Ralph R. Smith, "Appeals Court Upholds Trump Executive Order Restricting Collective Bargaining," FedSmith.com, February 27, 2026.
- "How Unions Spent Millions Of Tax Dollars Boosting Democrats Ahead Of Election Day," Daily Caller, October 29, 2024.
- "Federal Employees And Political Donations In 2024 Election Cycle," FedSmith.com, October 25, 2024.
- "Ninth Circuit lifts block on Trump limits to collective bargaining for federal workers," Courthouse News Service, February 26, 2026.
