AFL-CIO President Condemns Trump Administration Killing Energy, Manufacturing and Construction Jobs

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement in response to the Trump administration cutting $3.7 billion in funding for energy projects:

The labor movement condemns the Department of Energy’s decision to cut $3.7 billion in funding for new energy projects and take away tens of thousands of good union jobs from America’s workers.

President Trump promised a new era of American dominance in energy and manufacturing, but his administration is now taking away the jobs that are critical to making that happen. In states like Alabama, Ohio and Texas, workers have lost their jobs; their families have had the rug ripped out from under them; and we will all lose out on the environmental, economic and national security benefits of the cutting-edge technology they were going to build. Their work would have boosted the economies in those states, provided consumers with affordable energy, developed our fast-growing clean energy economy, and advanced America’s technological competitiveness on the world stage.

The Trump administration must reverse course and bring back these energy projects, for the good of America’s working families, our communities, and our global competitiveness.