Working families across the country are staring down a health care crisis that will make our communities sicker and leave workers unemployed – all so the president’s yes-men and women in Congress could hand out even more tax breaks to billionaires and greedy corporations.

Health care costs are about to skyrocket. Our health care system is on the verge of crisis, and now a government shutdown will harm the critical public services we all depend on. States, cities and towns are already facing massive budget shortfalls, and this shutdown will directly threaten AFSCME members’ jobs as states and cities lose even more federal funding.

The administration is even threatening to use the shutdown to illegally fire thousands of federal workers including AFSCME members. We won’t stand for it.

That's why AFSCME members are mobilizing to demand that Congress act urgently to protect working families.

Call your members of Congress today and urge them to: lower health care costs, protect federal workers and end this devastating shutdown by funding public services.