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Medicare and Medicaid have saved lives for 60 years. We’re fighting to keep it that way.

This year, AFSCME is celebrating this special anniversary with mixed emotions. That’s because the joint legacy of Medicare and Medicaid is under threat.

Medicare and Medicaid have saved lives for 60 years. We’re fighting to keep it that way.

Council 20 members are winning in federal court

Following a legal victory last week, AmeriCorps on Thursday began informing

Council 20 members are winning in federal court

D.C. budget update: no layoffs, furloughs or facility closures in 2025

Earlier this year, Congress passed a year long FY 2025 federal funding bill that was missing a routine authorization for D.C. to spend its own tax dollars. This manufactured crisis is causing a $1.1 billion shortfall in the City of D.C.’s budget.

D.C. budget update: no layoffs, furloughs or facility closures in 2025

June Federal Government Update

Federal Government Update

June Federal Government Update

Executive Director Update on the DC city budget

As you may have already heard, Congress has blown a hole in the District’s budget by withholding local $1 billion of our own local funds.

Executive Director Update on the DC city budget

D.C. Budget Crisis

Congress has blown a hole in the District’s budget by failing to renew key provisions that allowed D.C. to responsibly use its own local funds. This failure puts essential public services at risk—sanitation, public safety, health care, and more—and directly threatens AFSCME jobs. 

D.C. Budget Crisis

AFSCME and allies sue over White House move to bust federal unions

SAN FRANCISCO –  AFSCME and other labor unions are suing the administration over a recent executive order that seeks to strip more than 1 million federal government employees of their collective bargaining rights.

AFSCME and allies sue over White House move to bust federal unions

The White House’s big lie about not touching Social Security

Despite claims by the White House that it won’t cut Social Security, the administration is already beginning to attack and dismantle the program that Americans have paid into throughout their careers.

Why are they doing this? To hand out trillions in tax cuts to billionaires.

The White House’s big lie about not touching Social Security