This is a weekly post spotlighting labor topics in focus by the US legislative and executive branches during the previous week. In this issue, we cover:
Biden Administration Labor Leadership Updates- Budget Reconciliation Spending Package Agreed to in Principle
- House Appropriations Committee Advances Labor Spending Bill
- Farmworker COVID-19 Vaccination Effort Urged
- Federal Funding for Workers Adversely Affected by Foreign Trade
- Federal Government Advisory Regarding “Forced Labor” Supply Chain Concerns
- Upcoming Congressional Hearings
The United States (US) and European Union (EU) focused this week on forced labor and concerns with their respective supply chains, with the US releasing updated guidance on some related concerns coming from one region within the People’s Republic of China (China). Russia was also in the spotlight, with the US focused on cyber-attacks originating from actors based in the country and the EU sustaining its targeted Ukraine-related sanctions against the Russian Federation.
This report provides a snapshot of the US Executive Branch priorities via daily schedules and the prior day’s press releases.
On July 9, 2021, President Joe Biden issued an Executive Order (EO) “Promoting Competition in the American Economy.” The EO affirms that it is the administration’s policy “to enforce the antitrust laws to combat the excessive concentration of industry, the abuses of market power, and the harmful effects of monopoly and monopsony.” While certain portions of the EO apply generally, the EO includes provisions aimed at specific sectors of the economy. 
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