With Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) about to expire for 42 million Americans on November 1, IFPTE joined the AFL-CIO’s union letter urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins to disburse SNAP emergency funding.
Read MoreIFPTE renewed the call for Congress to pass a bipartisan Continuing Resolution (CR) to end the shutdown and fund the federal government. The letter reaffirmed IFPTE’s position that. “The common-sense path forward out of the current impasse is a truly clean CR that protects Congressionally approved spending levels and extends funding to provide time for Congress to pass full-year appropriations.”
Read MoreIFPTE told Congressional lawmakers to vote against passing a wholly inadequate continuing resolution (CR) that does nothing to limit the illegal and unconstitutional over reach of the executive branch.
Read MoreOn 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.
Read MoreIFPTE 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.
Read MoreDespite 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.
Read MoreWith 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.
Read MoreIFPTE 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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