Saunders: AFSCME members won't let Congress defund public services for billionaire tax cuts

[Omaha Steve]

https://www.afscme.org/press/releases/2025/saunders-afscme-members-wont-let-congress-defund-public-services-for-billionaire-tax-cuts

For Immediate Release
Thursday, April 10, 2025

WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after the House passed a budget reconciliation package that will force devastating cuts to essential public services nationwide:

“Today, Congress again passed a budget framework to gut Medicaid, child care, food assistance and other vital public services. This has everything to do with funneling federal dollars for public health, safety and education into tax breaks for billionaires.

“AFSCME members see through their schemes and are ready to fight back. For months, they have been packing town halls, calling their members of Congress and getting organized in defense of their communities. These anti-worker legislators can try to run from us, but they can’t hide. We’ll be there reminding them that they are supposed to represent us, not billionaires.”

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: [phone]
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[usonian]

1. K&R

Good guys should get rec's too!!!!