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Capital & Main
Capital & Main
Kalena Thomhave

In Georgia, Trump Is Upending Successful Pro-Worker Reforms

The Blue Bird Corporation school bus manufacturing plant in Fort Valley, Georgia. Photo courtesy United Steelworkers.

As the administration of President Donald Trump dismantles reforms enacted under Joe Biden, workers and management at a Fort Valley, Georgia, school bus plant are thriving because of the same policies.

On Trump’s first day in office, he signed an executive order that would freeze future spending under two Biden-era laws: The Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which authorized funding of more than $2 trillion. Under Biden, those grants often went to companies that supported worker unions, according to the Center for American Progress.

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