As President Trump's tumultuous tenure came to an end, the American Federation of Government Employees, the nation's largest Federal employeees' union, celebrated a bipartisan legislative strategy that won its members a pay raise, an expansion of paid parental leave and enhanced workplace protections against discrimination and retaliation.
The gains for the AFGE's 700,000 members came under the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act which was enacted by Congress over Mr. Trump's veto, which came due to his objection that the measure did not allow lawsuits based on alleged First-Amendment violations against social-media companies—particularly ones with which he feuded—and a provision which required the Pentagon to rename U.S. military bases named for Confederate generals during the Civil War.
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