The past few months have seen House Republicans and President Joe Biden exchange political broadsides over the debt ceiling with virtually no real negotiation taking place.

The White House released President Joe Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 Budget proposal last week. While there are a number of concerning tax increases that would impact the wholesale distribution industry, the budget is dead on arrival in the Republican controlled House of Representatives and the one-vote Senate Democrat majority.

PRO Act:  NAW has reported repeatedly over the last several years on organized labor’s top legislative priority, the union-written and anti-worker Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act.  This radical bill would, among many other things, remove secret ballots from union certification elections and repeal all state right to work laws.  It has been introduced in both houses of Congress several times, has previously passed the House, but has never passed the Senate.