Donald Trump has claimed that "every policy" of his administration has been "designed to lift up the American worker." The reality, though is that, since his return to office in January 2025, he has acted consistently to undermine workers' chosen representatives, America's labor unions. His actions include terminating union rights for more than a million federal government employees (1 out of every 14 unionized workers in the United States), paralyzing the National Labor Relations Board, and limiting the operations of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. The president of the AFL-CIO concluded that "this has been the most hostile administration to workers in our lifetimes."