AFL-CIO President: "Working People Will Hear the Truth About What Happened"

On Friday, President Trump signed legislation that forces working families to pay higher bills, rips health care away from 17 million people, and destroys millions of jobs across health care, construction, energy and more to give tax breaks to the wealthy. AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement:

“Today, Donald Trump signed into law the worst job-killing bill in American history. It will rip health care from 17 million workers to pay for massive tax giveaways to the wealthy and big corporations, amounting to the country’s largest money grab from the working class to the ultra-rich. Every member of Congress who voted for this devastating bill picked the pockets of working people to hand billionaires a $5 trillion gift. But if the politicians who rammed through this shameful bill think they can sneak away without anyone knowing the damage they’ve done and the chaos they’ve created, they don’t know anything about the labor movement.  

“The AFL-CIO will make sure that all working people across this country hear the truth about what happened this week in Washington and the dire consequences the bill will have on all of our lives. As part of the labor movement’s year-round organizing, we’ll be talking to workers today and every day—at jobsites and homes, in communities large and small—to make sure they know who sold us out, who is taking our jobs, our health care, our paychecks and our kids’ emergency rooms and parents’ nursing home beds, just so some rich people could get even richer.

“We won’t rest until the grave harms of this bill are wiped away and we finally build an economy with the foundation of freedom, fairness and security that we all deserve.” Read more about some of the devastating effects of this legislation from NPR, CNBC, The Guardian, THE CITY, and theEconomic Policy Institute.