This year, the Labor Department’s construction agenda ran into a wall in federal court — a wall built from its own overreach. The biggest blow came in June, when Judge Sam Cummings of the Northern District of Texas blocked key parts of the department’s 2023 Davis-Bacon overhaul — the first comprehensive rewrite of the prevailing-wage rules in forty years. The rule, effective October 2023, changed more than fifty provisions governing wages on federal construction projects. The Associated General Contractors sued — and won. The Davis-Bacon BlowThe court blocked three provisions. First, an “operation of law” clause that would have read … Continued
