S3174-119

Introduced

To amend title 38, United States Code, to affirm a collective bargaining agreement, and to nullify certain Executive orders that relate to, collective bargaining by employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

119th Congress Introduced Nov 10, 2025

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

Nullifies two executive orders that excluded Department of Veterans Affairs employees from federal labor-management relations programs and bars federal funds from implementing those orders at VA.

Who Benefits and How

VA employees and their unions could retain collective-bargaining and labor-relations protections that the executive orders would have limited.

Who Bears the Burden and How

VA leadership could lose the ability to rely on those orders, and the department would be blocked from spending funds to carry them out.

Key Provisions

  • Declares Executive Orders 14251 and 14343 ineffective as applied to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
  • Bars federal funds from being obligated or spent to implement those orders at VA.

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

Nullifies two executive orders that excluded Department of Veterans Affairs employees from federal labor-management relations programs and bars federal funds from implementing those orders at VA.

Key Policy Areas

Veterans Affairs, Labor, Government Operations

Primary Purpose

Nullifies two executive orders that excluded Department of Veterans Affairs employees from federal labor-management relations programs and bars federal funds from implementing those orders at VA.

Policy Domains

Veterans Affairs Labor Government Operations

Main Provisions

Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
  • Department of Veterans Affairs employees and labor organizations
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Contextual inference, no direct clause citation

Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
  • Department of Veterans Affairs leadership and managers responsible for labor-relations policy
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: is

Contextual inference, no direct clause citation

Legislative Progress

Introduced
Introduced Committee Passed
Nov 10, 2025

Mr. Blumenthal (for himself, Ms. Murkowski, and Mr. Schumer) introduced …

Stakeholder Effects

cui bono?

How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.

Government
1 mention across 1 clause
-1 negative

Department of Veterans Affairs management implementing labor-relations exclusions

1/3
sections analyzed
Full impact breakdown

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Veterans Affairs Labor Government Operations

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