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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Despite the chaos caused by the dysfunctional United States House of Representatives, Congress finally passed bipartisan legislation to keep the government funded beyond the close of the Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) on October 1st.
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With just a week to go before a partial government shutdown starts on Saturday, March 2nd, IFPTE once more urged House and Senate leadership to act urgently and pass bipartisan government funding legislation and remove controversial policy riders or “poison pills” that will delay and block passage.
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IFPTE President, Matt Biggs, and Secretary-Treasurer, Gay Henson, released the following joint statement in response to this week’s deal to keep the federal government funded into early next year.
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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 Senators continue negotiating an agreement on a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the federal government funded, IFPTE urged the Senate to act swiftly before the start of the 2023 fiscal year, which begins on October 1, 2022.
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IFPTE requested Senators vote to a continuing resolution to prevent a shutdown and fund the federal government through March 11, 2022. The bill passed the House last week with bipartisan support. The union letter also applauds Sen. Schatz and Rep. Case for including funding to clean up Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in Hawaii.
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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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In a series of emails sent this week from IFPTE Secretary-Treasurer Matt Biggs updating Locals on a potential federal government shutdown, he shared that “we are just eight days away from the end of Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20), and none of the twelve annual spending measures has been approved by Congress… absent passage of a continuing resolution by the end of the month, the government will shut down.”
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