To: The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate
Tell Congress: Fix the sequester cuts for all Americans
AFSCME
By rushing through a bill that allows the Federal Aviation Administration to reshuffle funding and avoid flight delays just hours before leaving town, Congress let the American people know where its priorities are. It’s an outrage. Seniors are being denied access to Meals on Wheels, cancer patients denied treatment, low-income children are being kicked out of Head Start, student aid is being cut, and the millions of Americans unable to find work are seeing their unemployment benefits reduced. Ending flight delays for Congress and the one-percent are not the fixes to the sequester that America needs. We call on you to end ALL of the devastating sequester cuts that are hurting our seniors, our children, working families, students and the poor.
Why is this important?
Congress jumped into action last week to protect air travelers – such as themselves – from long airport delays caused by sequestration cuts, but they’ve shown no sympathy for the millions of Americans without a frequent flyer card.
Air travel and ending the furloughs at the FAA are important, but the haphazard sequestration cuts are hitting the middle class and our most vulnerable the hardest: with seniors denied access to Meals on Wheels, cancer patients denied treatment, low-income children being kicked out of Head Start, and cuts to unemployment insurance for the millions of Americans unable to find work.
It's outrageous. No more balancing the budget on the backs of working families. No more paying for tax giveaways that benefit corporations and the super-wealthy with cuts to vital programs. Tell Congress to fix the sequester cuts for all Americans.
Air travel and ending the furloughs at the FAA are important, but the haphazard sequestration cuts are hitting the middle class and our most vulnerable the hardest: with seniors denied access to Meals on Wheels, cancer patients denied treatment, low-income children being kicked out of Head Start, and cuts to unemployment insurance for the millions of Americans unable to find work.
It's outrageous. No more balancing the budget on the backs of working families. No more paying for tax giveaways that benefit corporations and the super-wealthy with cuts to vital programs. Tell Congress to fix the sequester cuts for all Americans.