CMD NEWS ABOUT ALEC

• GOP and Koch Groups Want to Slash Medicaid to Pay for Trump’s Tax Cuts

  By Don Wiener | February 14th, 2025 at 11:49 AM (CST)

  In launching a $20-million campaign last month to persuade Congress to extend President Trump’s first-term Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Charles Koch’s astroturf group, Americans for Prosperity, boasted about making the largest investment of any other conservative group in support of Trump’s second-term legislative agenda.

• ALEC Publishes Its Own Project 2025 — for the States

  By Colleen Scerpella | February 10th, 2025 at 8:47 AM (CST)

  “Now, more than ever, is the time for states to lead.” This assertion by leaders of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) opens the organization’s Essential Policy Solutions playbook for 2025. 

• Utah Outlaws Collective Bargaining by Public Employees as Part of a Broader Assault on Unions

  By Juliana Broad | February 7th, 2025 at 12:24 PM (CST)

  The Utah Senate passed a House bill on Thursday that would outlaw public sector collective bargaining. Once signed by the governor, it will usher in one of the country’s most severe and restrictive rollbacks of union rights in recent memory. 

• ALEC Member Strikes a Blow Against Rule Requiring Union Labor on Federal Construction Projects

  By Juliana Broad | January 31st, 2025 at 8:07 AM (CST)

  Contractors engaged in large federal construction projects can’t be required to enter collective bargaining agreements with building trade unions, a federal claims court ruled last week.