IFPTE Requests Congressional Leadership Pass Supplemental Funding to Support IFPTE Members’ Jobs, Families, and Communities
Earlier this week, IFPTE sent a letter to Congressional leaders requesting any national security and domestic supplemental funding bills, which were requested by President Biden last month, include IFPTE priorities that support our members’ work, working families, and American communities. The letter asks for supplemental funding to include disaster relief resources for communities in Maui and other states impacted by natural disasters, funding to modernize the Navy’s public shipyards, expand the hiring of immigration judges and support staff, stabilize the cost of child care, and invest in the U.S. clean nuclear energy supply chain.
The letter also makes clear that Congress should not offset any supplemental funding with cuts to federal agencies. In light of a recent bill passed in the House that includes cuts to the IRS paired with providing emergency supplemental funding for one of the several funding items requested by the President, the letter reminds Congressional leadership how counterproductive the offset measure is: “The impact of offsets – such as the $14.3 billion clawback of IRS funding in a recent House-passed bill that could result in $90 billion in lost revenues according to IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel – undermines the purpose of emergency supplemental funding and only creates a resource crunch for important federal services and programs that Americans count on.”
The letter was sent to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies. The letter was also shared with all Members of Congress.