For Immediate Release
Contact: Nick Voutsinos
Email: nvoutsinos@afscme.org

AFSCME’s Saunders: Federal workers protect the public. That’s why they’re under attack.

WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after President Trump signed an Executive Order directing DOGE to slash the federal workforce:
 
“It is unsurprising that an administration run by billionaires is eliminating oversight and firing dedicated federal workers. They know federal workers protect the public against corporate abuse and won’t allow them to use taxpayer dollars as their own personal slush fund. So, instead of trying to improve the lives of working people, they are creating a staffing crisis in the public service that hurts children, seniors, people with disabilities, working people and those most vulnerable. We won’t stand for it, and we will keep fighting back.”