Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced a bill to undo the Biden administration’s red tape within a federal employment program.
The legislation, dubbed the Pathways to Paychecks Act, would codify a proposed Trump administration policy overturning the Biden action that hindered states’ use of the Wagner-Peyser Employment Services (ES) program, which facilitates connections between job seekers and employers.
Former President Joe Biden’s Department of Labor (DOL), under then-Secretary Julie Su, eliminated states’ flexibility to administer ES with local government staff or contractors in 2023, making it hard to provide such services while denying states the ability to respond to changing workforce needs.
In July, President Donald Trump’s DOL proposed a “deregulatory action” that would allow
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