(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler released the following statement on President Trump’s State of the Union address:

President Trump's speech was a fever dream, completely divorced from the economic reality Working People feel every day amid rising costs and vanishing jobs.

We know Trump’s billionaire-first agenda is all about fattening the bottom line of the extremely wealthy while the rest of us scrape for crumbs.

Every time we check out at the grocery store, open a utility bill or look at our paychecks, Working People see this economy for what it is: A struggle that suffocates us day after day.

From Day One, this Administration has made Working People’s lives more expensive and less free: Attacking Immigrant Workers and our communities; Giving Big Tech CEOs free rein; and Ripping away Federal Workers’ Collective Bargaining Rights while weakening the laws that protect our paychecks.

Meanwhile, the cost of living for Working People continues to rise.

President Trump boasted about a “Golden Age” for workers, but he spent the past year rigging the rules for billionaire CEOs and Big Tech companies while kicking millions of Americans off their health care.

Rather than raising wages and lowering costs, the President has attacked Unions and Workers, ripped away Workers’ Collective Bargaining Rights and stalled job-creating projects.

And every day, the Trump Administration is pushing to pit working people against each other: Deporting Immigrants and ripping people from their families; Trying to strip people of their status and work permits; and Making it more difficult for Working People to vote.

The Labor Movement isn’t falling for it.

Even as the state of our Union is under attack, Workers are banding together to fight back.

These relentless attacks on our freedoms and our livelihoods have made Working People hungrier than ever to join a Union, who organized to put the number of Unionized Workers to its highest level in 16 years.

In 2026 we will organize, we will fight and we will vote for a country that works for us, not the billionaire bosses.

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