Massive investment is needed to repair nation's underfunded infrastructure
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka’s testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee)
The AFL-CIO is America’s Labor federation, representing 55 affiliate unions and 12.5 million working people across the country.
Together, these are the workers who build our roads and bridges. They are the workers that maintain and operate our passenger and freight rail trains. They drive the buses that move people to and from school and work every day. They install networks of broadband fiber that connect every corner of our country. They build our schools, power our homes and manufacture our goods. They educate our children, tend to the sick and keep our offices clean. Simply put—they are the people who make our nation work.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue and I have had the pleasure of appearing before several congressional committees over the past decade, detailing the need for action and urging Congress to fund our nation’s infrastructure. It is a message Congress must always keep at the forefront of the discussion in Washington, D.C. and in our communities.
While testifying is a distinct honor, it also is equally frustrating. Despite widespread calls to act — from the people who build our infrastructure to the folks who rely on it every single day; after all of the studies and reports outlining this urgent crisis, and notwithstanding overwhelming public support and outcry for increased investments — no meaningful action has been taken to put us on a course to correct decades of chronic underinvestment.
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