House overrides Biden’s 11th veto, surpassing Trump’s record

The House plans to vote Tuesday to override President Joe Biden‘s veto of legislation blocking the National Labor Relations Board’s new joint-employer rule from going into effect.

The measure, which would block the Biden administration from significantly loosening the standards used for determining joint-employer status, had previously passed both the House and Senate.

Biden vetoed H.J.Res.98 this past Friday, marking his 11th veto and pushing him just ahead of former President Donald Trump on the all-time presidential list. Former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt holds the record for most vetoes, striking down 635 pieces of legislation from 1933 to 1945.

“Once again, the Biden Administration is prioritizing special interests over small businesses and American workers,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise’s (R-LA) office said Sunday night before confirming to the Washington Examiner that the veto override would be brought to the House floor on Tuesday. “We should be fighting to empower small businesses and grow job opportunities to allow Americans to succeed — not imposing more red tape, undermining entrepreneurship, and placing the American Dream out of reach.”

Critics of the NLRB’s new rule, which was finalized in 2023, say the Biden administration was throwing small businesses under the bus and opening them up to potentially spurious labor lawsuits to please “special interest” union groups.

“We already have the right to collectively bargain in this country, but this rule goes too far. This is the most glaring evidence yet that capitalism and choice are threats to this administration’s socialist, ‘America last’ agenda,” Rep. John James (R-MI), who sponsored H.J.Res.98, said in January. “Bureaucrats don’t create jobs. Businesses create jobs, but Republicans aim to make policy that will not only result in more jobs but more job creators. These job creators, these entrepreneurs, these franchisees, these independent contractors create good-paying jobs and give people the opportunity to succeed, and overturning this joint-employer rule is just the first step in the right direction.”

In a statement, the White House said that Jones’s bill would allow companies to evade “their bargaining obligations or liability” and hurt workers’ rights in the process.

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“By hampering the NLRB’s efforts to promote the practice and procedure of collective bargaining, Republicans are siding with union-busting corporations over the needs of workers and their unions,” Biden wrote. “I am proud to be the most pro-union, pro-worker President in American history. I make no apologies for my Administration protecting the right to organize and bargain collectively.”