AFT’s Weingarten on President Biden’s Budget

WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after President Joe Biden released details of his 2025 fiscal year budget:                                                                                                                                                    

“With this budget, President Biden has underlined his unswerving commitment to fundamental American values—giving families the freedom and opportunity to get ahead and thrive. The Biden budget grows the economy from the middle out and the bottom up. It proposes increases to core education programs like Title I, and funds programs that support student learning and college completion. It protects and strengthens Social Security and Medicare. It takes on the largest healthcare challenges facing the nation by expanding the healthcare workforce and addressing consolidation, affordability and access to mental and physical healthcare, including reproductive health. And it slashes the deficit by about $3 billion by taxing the ultra-wealthy and corporations, which have raked in billions since the Trump tax cuts. America’s educators, healthcare professionals and public employees are proud to have the president’s back, because we know he has ours.”