Congress can use the budget reconciliation bill to save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars by refusing to pay the salaries of government employees who, instead of doing their jobs, are doing business for their unions.

Through a practice known as “official time,” union agents can draw a government salary even when they are off lobbying Congress, or spending 100 percent of their time working for a labor union.

In 2019, the year before President Joe Biden ordered the Office of Personnel Management to stop tracking and reporting official time, employees across the federal government were paid $135 million to do 2.6 million hours of union work while “on the clock” at their government jobs.

These are the last people who deserve taxpayer money. Despite being paid with tax dollars, these government union bosses are blatantly partisan. They’re so used to being above the law that they see no reason to represent the views of most Americans. That’s........

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