An executive order signed by the president would cancel collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of workers, the largest federal employees union said. The union was preparing legal action.

The White House cited national security concerns for terminating workers’ ability to bargain collectively, but the order applies at agencies with both direct and indirect links to national security.

President Donald Trump took his most consequential action against federal employee unions yet late Thursday, signing an executive order aimed at ending collective bargaining for government employees whose work include national security aspects.

A U.S. judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from pursuing efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, marking another legal setback in the White House's efforts to remake the federal government virtually overnight.

A federal judge has agreed to block the Trump administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. U.S.

A federal judge on Friday ordered U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to temporarily pause its efforts to shut down Voice of America, stopping the government from firing 1,300 journalists and other employees at the U.