SMART General President Michael Coleman issued the following statement on recent job cancellations:
“This week, Washington politicians chose political games over working people, cancelling good, high-paying American jobs. On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Energy cut $7.56 billion from 223 clean energy projects, including the Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub and California’s ARCHES Hub — projects that had bipartisan support and would have created more than 138,000 construction jobs under project labor agreements. These cancellations undermine America’s energy and national security.
Working people should not pay the price for dysfunction in Washington. Our industries and our nation cannot operate under this kind of chaos. I call on both sides to come together and end this shutdown — fulfilling their most basic duty to the American people.”
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