Report details ballroom donors’ federal contracts, enforcement actions - The Washington Post

The list contain heavyweights in the tech, financial and defense sectors, including Google, Comcast and Lockheed Martin...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/03/trump-ballroom-donors-contracts-enforcement/

 

Trump Revokes Minimum Wage Raise For Federal Contractors | HuffPost Latest News

President Donald Trump has revoked an executive order from his predecessor that increased the minimum wage for federal contractors, a move that could end up stripping low-wage workers of a pay raise…

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-contractor-minimum-wage_n_67d99e8ae4b034e52523d6a4

 

US judge blocks Trump bid to ban DEI by federal agencies, contractors | Reuters

Abelson on Friday said the orders, and the definition of DEI, are so vague that it was not possible for the plaintiffs to determine how Trump's directives applied to their programs. 

"Plaintiffs have adequately shown that their speech has been and will continue to be chilled in light of the challenged orders based both on actions currently being taken by Defendants and based on Plaintiffs' reasonable fears," wrote Abelson, an appointee of Democratic former President Joe Biden...

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-blocks-trumps-bid-ban-dei-by-federal-agencies-contractors-2025-02-22/

Trump Is Refusing to Pay Contractors For Work During the Shutdown - Vanity Fair

The president has a long history of stiffing people who work for him. ....
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/federal-contractors-shutdown-backpay

Unpaid federal employees recalled so they can pay federal contractors - The Washington Post: Perspective

In a policy reversal sure to sting suffering federal employees, the Trump administration is calling some furloughed feds back to work with no pay so agencies can pay federal contractors. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/25/unpaid-federal-employees-recalled-work-pay-federal-contractors/

Trump Is Planning A New Rule To Let Federal Contractors Fire Employees For Religious Reasons

Previous presidents have banned discrimination and allowed a very narrow exemption for religious reasons. Now President Donald Trump is planning to expand that loophole.....
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/dominicholden/trump-new-rule-federal-discrimination-fire-lgbt

The EPA's Ties to a GOP Opposition Firm Go Far Beyond a PR Contract -- Mother Jones

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is connected in more than one way to the Republican consulting firm he approved for a federal contract to track and shape media coverage of the EPA. ....
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/12/the-epas-ties-to-a-gop-opposition-firm-go-far-beyond-a-pr-contract/

Trump Supporters Petition Jeff Sessions to Make Them a Protected Class -- Vanity Fair

As the Justice Department guts L.G.B.T.Q. rights, companies working with Trump want their own discrimination protection. ....
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/trump-supporters-protected-class

Workers cheated as federal contractors prosper

For 11 years, Karla Quezada assembled sandwiches at the Subway in the food court of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, a sprawling complex in downtown Washington, D.C., owned by the U.S. General Services Administration.

She routinely worked more than 40 hours a week, with no overtime pay. She worked holidays, also without extra compensation. Her paychecks took a hit whenever she stayed home sick.

"I knew it was a federal building, but since everyone else was paying low wages, too, I just figured that's how it was supposed to be," Quezada, 40, said in a recent interview at her home in Arlington, Virginia.

Actually, that’s not how it’s supposed to be....
https://www.publicintegrity.org/node/20803

Defense Contractor Doesn’t Want to Divest Before Advising Trump on … Defense -- Vanity Fair

Billionaire Stephen Feinberg is just following in the big guy's footsteps. ...
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/stephen-feinberg-donald-trump-cerberus

Trump revokes executive order, weakens protections for LGBT workers

Federal contractors will no longer have to provide documentation about their workplace policies....
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-gutted-lgbt-executive-order-8dd0e3be69a

Trump signs measure making it easier for federal contractors to abuse workers

He rolled back President Obama’s executive order that combatted wage theft and safety violations....
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-contractors-labor-laws-executive-order-fd2c97b42b46

The Huffington Post: Trump Repeals Regulation Protecting Workers From Wage Theft

Companies that commit wage theft and put their workers in harm's way just received a favor from the Trump administration. ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-repeals-regulation-wage-theft_us_58d9408ee4b03692bea814c9?

Trump’s deal with Carrier is a shell game. Keep your eye on federal contractor rules.

Why does Trump want to cut a deal with Carrier but not regulate it?...
https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-deal-with-carrier-is-a-shell-game-keep-your-eye-on-federal-contractor-rules-7fe462d4ca0#.vou92rvsf

CNBC: These rules may prohibit Trump from threatening federal contractors to keep jobs in US

Trying to pressure companies with federal contracts to keep their operations in the U.S. may be perilous for the new president. ...
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/01/these-rules-may-prohibit-trump-from-threatening-federal-contractors-to-keep-jobs-in-us.html