For Immediate Release

Contact: Nick Voutsinos
Email: nvoutsinos@afscme.org

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 our nation’s crumbling roads and bridges. Hardliners in Congress did everything they could to undo this historic progress, going as far as threatening a first-ever government default that would have led to a punishing recession. These anti-worker politicians always put the interests of the super-wealthy over working families.

“Neither side got everything it wanted in this agreement, but it shows once again that President Biden puts working people first, while extremists on the other side are willing to gamble away our futures.”

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AFSCME’s 1.4 million members provide the vital services that make America happen. With members in communities across the nation, serving in hundreds of different occupations — from nurses to corrections officers, childcare providers to sanitation workers — AFSCME advocates for fairness in the workplace, excellence in public services and freedom and opportunity for all working families. 

AFSCME’s 1.4 million members provide the vital services that make America happen. With members in communities across the nation, serving in hundreds of different occupations — from nurses to corrections officers, child care providers to sanitation workers — AFSCME advocates for fairness in the workplace, excellence in public services and freedom and opportunity for all working families.

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American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO
1625 L Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036-5687
Telephone: (202) 429-1145
Fax: (202) 429-1120

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