The Trump Administration Is Quietly Gutting Minimum Wage Protections for Millions of Workers

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Trump has already cut minimum wage protections for federal contract workers and halted plans to require companies to pay disabled workers $7.25 per hour; and plans to eliminate minimum wage protections for millions of child care and home care providers.

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Aug 27, 2025
The Trump Administration Is Quietly Gutting Minimum Wage Protections for Millions of Workers

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administration-is-quietly-gutting-minimum-wage-protections-for-millions-of-workers/

The administration has already cut minimum wage protections for hundreds of thousands of federal contract workers and halted plans to require companies to pay disabled workers at least $7.25 per hour; this Labor Day, it will advance plans to eliminate federal minimum wage protections for millions of child care and home care providers.


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Home care workers rally in support of their rights and improving seniors' access to care in Lansing, Michigan, on March 13, 2024.

The Trump administration claims that its actions are raising pay for the working class when in reality, they are empowering corporations to lower wages for millions of workers by eliminating minimum wage protections for federal contractors, disabled workers, and domestic workers providing home care and child care.

Minimum wage standards are a fundamental U.S. labor protection. Minimum hourly pay and overtime standards prevent employers from paying workers the lowest they can get away with. But the administration is using its executive authority to:

End minimum wage and overtime protections for upward of 3.7 million domestic workers

Reduce the minimum wage for federal contractors by $9,256 annually

Reverse a policy that would have prevented over 600 employers from legally paying disabled workers less than the minimum wage

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