The government shutdown is stretching into its second-longest period in U.S. history.
Frustration continues to mount among millions of Americans, and now, the country’s largest federal workers’ union is calling for an immediate end to the impasse.
AFGE Calls for Immediate Congressional Action
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which represents over 800,000 federal and Washington, D.C., government workers, issued a powerful statement Monday urging lawmakers to act.
“It’s time to pass a clean continuing resolution and end this shutdown today. No half measures, and no gamesmanship,” said Everett Kelley, the national president of AFGE, in a statement first shared with NBC News. “Put every single federal worker back on the job with full back pay — today.”
Kelley emphasized the toll the shutdown is taking on both government employees and the broader public, adding:
“It’s time for our leaders to start focusing on how to solve problems for the American people, rather than on who is going to get the blame for a shutdown that Americans dislike.”
