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

AFSCME Member Khea Chambers
D.C. Budget Crisis
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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

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

AFSCME members at a Social Security rally
The White House’s big lie about not touching Social Security
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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