Federal Budget & Taxes
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We must fight to stop Project 2025 in its tracks
When Project 2025 was revealed last summer, it read like a to-do list of ways to harm working families. The roughly 900-page document is a blueprint for a radical attack on working families and public services. Project 2025 presented a nightmare vision of America that robbed workers of power while emboldening anti-worker extremists and… Read More
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AFSCME GO: Three Ways to Take Action
Our Get Organized campaign — or AFSCME GO — is about protecting our jobs, our communities, and our rights. We need you in this fight. Here are three ways you can take action. Read More
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AFSCME members raise their voices on Capitol Hill against cruel budget cuts
On Capitol Hill, United Domestic Workers members spoke out to protect Medicaid and the public services we all depend on. Read More
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Layoffs and grant cuts at HHS threaten the health of our communities
Layoffs and federal grant cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services is hurting public health programs in states, localities. Read More
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Administration targets library, museum funding as part of effort to slash public services
A White House executive order targets funding for libraries and museums. Read More
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Medicaid is worth fighting for
AFSCME holds a day of action to protect Medicaid. Read More
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Five groups who will be harmed by federal budget cuts
Here are five groups that will be harmed by federal budget cuts. Read More
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Nurse: Budget cuts would leave veterans out in the cold
Veterans will suffer under extreme budget cuts, says a Michigan nurse and AFSCME member. Read More
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Frightened for her students, a Head Start teacher warns of disastrous budget cuts
A Minnesota Head Start teacher warns of reckless budget cuts. Read More
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AFSCME’s Saunders: This budget proves anti-union extremists are more concerned about tax breaks for billionaires than helping working people
WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after the House passed a budget plan to gut Medicaid, SNAP and essential public services nationwide: “This budget proves that anti-union extremists in Congress are more concerned with giving the wealthy trillions in tax cuts than helping working people. Voters across the country are packing… Read More
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AFSCME’s Saunders: Diverting funding from vital public services to billionaires is inhumane
WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after the Senate passed a budget reconciliation package, beginning the process to cut essential public services for communities nationwide: “This budget is inhumane. If cuts to essential services are enacted, children in public schools will go hungry. Retirees who depend on Medicaid and Medicare will… Read More
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Trump’s tax plans would benefit the rich, Harris’ plan would benefit everyone else
Donald Trump would cut taxes for the richest of Americans and raise taxes on everyone else, but Kamala Harris would do the exact opposite, according to a new analysis. Read More
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Shutdown-averting bill has money for AFSCME child care priorities, but more is needed
There’s good news for AFSCME child care providers in the shutdown-averting bill but more help is needed. Read More
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Maryland AFSCME member urges swift congressional action on federal budget
Jenny Reese, a Maryland nurse and president of AFSCME Local 539 (Council 3), wants Congress to quickly pass a federal budget and not cut services. Read More
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As a government shutdown looms, AFSCME members voice alarm and frustration
AFSCME public service workers demand that Congress avoid shutting down the government. Read More
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AFSCME’s Saunders applauds expansion of World Trade Center Health Program to include additional 9/11 first responders
WASHINGTON — AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes an expansion of the World Trade Center Health Program: “Finally, Congress has taken a step forward to add funding to the World Trade Center Health Program, which provides essential health services to 9/11 first responders. With this… Read More
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Saunders: ‘There is work to do to ensure that we don’t face another race against the clock’
AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement in response to the bipartisan deal to avert a government shutdown: “We can breathe a sigh of relief – for now. “Once again, extremists in Congress played a dangerous game, manufacturing an unnecessary crisis that would have imposed reckless cuts to programs working families depend… Read More
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AFSCME’s Saunders: Congressional extremists must ‘stop using our lives as bargaining chips’ and keep the government open
AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement as Congressional extremists threaten a government shutdown: “Despite shaking hands on a bipartisan budget agreement just a few months ago, anti-worker politicians in Congress are now going back on their word. They are demanding drastic cuts to the essential programs millions of families need to survive –… Read More
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AFSCME endorsement: Joe Biden ‘respects and protects working people’ while others ‘stabbed them in the back when the cameras were off’
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), a union of 1.4 million public service workers nationwide, has endorsed President Joe Biden for reelection. The endorsement was announced prior to a scheduled national event this Saturday in Philadelphia hosted by the AFL-CIO, in which a broad coalition of unions affiliated and unaffiliated with… Read More
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AFSCME’s Saunders: Biden protected working families against extremists
AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan budget agreement, averting federal default: “President Biden has delivered for working people time and time again. He has created more jobs than any other U.S. president, fostered wage growth, lowered prescription drug costs for seniors and signed legislation to fix… Read More
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Saunders: The budget agreement was necessary, but ‘working people don’t like being treated like bargaining chips, and we certainly won’t forget’
AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after the House approved the bipartisan budget agreement reached between President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy: “Once again, extremists in Congress pushed our economy to the brink. If we had gone over this financial cliff, our government would have defaulted for the first time in American… Read More
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