FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 01, 2021
December 01, 2021
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Brittany Holder
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Largest Federal Employee Union Urges Congress to Avert Government Shutdown
Categories:
Washington, D.C., Congress, Budget
AFGE calls potential shutdown a “Christmas gift to America’s global adversaries” and says Congress must “stop playing chicken with people’s lives and do your jobs”
WASHINGTON – Today, American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO (AFGE) National President Everett Kelley released the following statement as Congress approaches a Dec. 3 funding deadline and the potential of a fourth government shutdown since 2018:
“A government shutdown just before the holidays would be a Christmas gift to America’s global adversaries, who are anxious to exploit every failure of our democratic system of government, and a lump of coal in the stocking of every hardworking American honorably serving their country and every citizen who counts on critical government services, including our most vulnerable citizens.
“Our members have a simple message for Congress: Stop playing chicken with people’s lives and do your jobs.”
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