With Government Shutdown Looming, IFPTE Urges Senate to Pass Continuing Resolution to Fund Government
The Senate and the House passed a Continuing Resolution to fund the federal government through December 16. See how your Senators and Representative voted.
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.
IFPTE’s letter to the Senate urged the upper chamber to agree to and pass a CR that funds the federal government through mid-December, in order to give “Congressional Appropriators in both chambers the needed time to negotiate and pass all twelve Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations bills by the end of the year.”
Senators were also urged to work across the aisle and forge a bipartisan agreement to include reauthorization of Trade Adjustment Assistance, which expired at the end of June 2022, $800 million added to give the Social Security Administration funds to avoid delayed services, and an extension of funding for the universal school meals program that expired at the end of the last school year.
IFPTE also reminded Senators that, “The consequences of these shutdowns show up not only in increased costs to taxpayers, reduced military readiness, expensive delays to projects and research, payment disruptions to government contractors, and suspension of important services and public safety measures – it also impacts the morale, financial security, retention rates of the diverse population of federal workers who have chosen a career in the civil service.”
IFPTE will continue to contact Congressional offices and request passage of a CR before the funding deadline this Friday.
Read IFPTE’s letter to Senators here.