On Friday evening, less than 6 hours away from a lapse in federal government appropriations, the House of Representatives passed a Continuing Resolution to avert a shutdown and fund the federal government for three months.
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IFPTE issued a statement regarding the growing likelihood of a government shutdown, which would start when the current federal funding expires at 12:01 am, Saturday, December 21.
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Ahead of a vote in the House of Representatives to pass a package of six appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2024, IFPTE urged Members of the House of Representatives to pass a package of six fiscal year 2024 (FY24) government funding bills Consolidated Approrpations Act, 2024, H. Res. 1061. The House passed the appropriations package with bipartisan support by a vote of 339 to 85.
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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.
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In response to this unprecedented situation, IFPTE sent a letter to House Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and asked them to, “work together to come to an acceptable path forward to allow for an Interim Speaker.”
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The Executive Officers of IFPTE responded to the House of Representatives’ passage of H.R. 5860, the Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government through November 14.
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On Saturday, less than 12 hours before the government funding deadline, IFPTE sent a letter to the U.S. Senate requesting they vote to pass a bipartisan continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government open through November 17.
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As House Republicans continue putting politics above people and fail to agree on a path to funding the federal government, IFPTE has once again urged Congress to embrace bipartisan efforts in the Senate to fund the government and avert a federal government shutdown.
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As Congress adjourns and begins a month-long recess, IFPTE shared deep concerns about the appropriations bills that the House is considering and the extreme cuts to federal agencies and programs proposed in the House appropriations bills.
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While IFPTE requested Members of the House and Senate vote to pass this bill in order to prevent a U.S. debt default, IFPTE’s letter to Representatives made clear that this bill “will implement unnecessary two-year spending caps that constrains Congress's ability to fund programs, services, and investments that are necessary to support working families and our nation’s economic competitiveness.”
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Congress needs to act urgently and pass a clean debt limit increase before June 1st. If Congress fails to raise the debt limit, the U.S. government will default on it's debt with catastrophic impacts for our economy, for working people, for retirement savings, and for essential government services.
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Last week, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R, CA) and House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R, TX) unveiled legislation they call the “Limit, Save, Grow Act,” which seeks to extend the debt ceiling but also defunds essential services that working Americans, retirees, veterans, and communities across the country count on. With Majority Leader McCarthy intending this bring this bill to a floor vote this week, IFPTE sent a letter telling Members of the House that this bill will hurt Americans in every Congressional district.
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IFPTE President Biggs commented that President Joe Biden has “lived up to his pledge once again by putting forward a budget that will decrease the national deficit, and do so while protecting and strengthening the programs that working families and retirees across the nation depend so heavily on. “
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IFPTE urged Senators to pass the omnibus government funding package which includes several funding and policy priorities that IFPTE advocated for. The current short-term government funding measure expires on December 23.
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As Congress makes progress on an omnibus federal spending bill for Fiscal Year 2023 and passing a week-long continuing resolution to allow needed time to finalize the omnibus package, IFPTE reminded Members of Congress that IFPTE members and working Americans are counting on them to deliver on union members and workers priorities.
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This week, IFPTE reached out to members of the House of Representatives and the Senate to urge, in the strongest terms possible, to avoid a government shutdown and pass a fiscal year (FY) 2023 government funding budget that supports the priorities and needs of working Americans and retirees.
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This week, as the House considered legislative package of six appropriations bills for fiscal year 2023, IFPTE requested Representatives vote for the legislation. The bill passed by a vote of 220 to 207 and supports President Biden’s recommendation of a 4.6% federal employee pay increase.
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IFPTE responded to the release of the Biden Administration’s Fiscal Year 2023 budget proposal, which includes several IFPTE priorities and calls for significant resources for federal agencies.
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With a lapse of Congressionally appropriated funding set to shut the government down on October 1, IFPTE told Senators and Representatives that “The absurd threat of a government shutdown must be avoided in the next few hours.”
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The letter, which was signed by 19 unions and sent to the Senate and House appropriators, notes that, “Appropriating a 3.2 percent average pay raise for 2022 matches trends in the private sector and is a necessary step to ensure the federal government does not fall further behind in pay.”
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