The billionaire class is waging a war on workers, putting our nation’s healthcare, research, education, and jobs at risk. These attacks target workers at colleges and universities in many ways: through imposing a cap on indirect costs on grants across the NIH, freezing funding for crucial research, and threatening academic workers across the country.
On Tuesday, February 25, we’re taking this massive energy directly to D.C. Register to join us in-person or online for a viewing party and national phone bank.
Labor leaders and organizers representing hundreds of thousands of higher education and allied workers will rally in D.C. to expose how Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s attacks on research and higher education funding are decimating public health while siphoning off public resources for private gain.
At the same time, higher ed workers and allies will join together online to get energized by each other and the events in Washington, D.C. We will use our power to tell our legislators and elected officials: Hands off our healthcare, research, jobs, and education!
Organized by the Labor for Higher Ed Coalition.
In-person: U.S. Health and Human Services Headquarters, 200 Independence Avenue SW
House Opposition Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has called on the entire House Democratic caucus to meet at noon on Tuesday, February 25 at the East Capitol Steps to oppose the Republican budget, in conjunction with constituents “whose lives will be devastated by the Republican budget scheme.” The vote on the budget is expected at 6 pm.
We are asking all Members of the House Democratic Caucus to join us on the East Capitol Steps at 12:00 noon on Tuesday. At that time, we will make sure that the country can hear from everyday Americans whose lives will be devastated by the Republican budget scheme.
On Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at 10:15 a.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold an oversight hearing titled “Full Blast: Contrasting Momentum in the Space Mining Economy to the Terrestrial Mining Regulatory Morass.”
Federal workers and allies will meet to job search, build community and share their stories with Senate offices and the media. Lunch provided to laid-off feds.
10 AM at Hart Senate Building Atrium, 120 Constitution Ave NE.
Stephen A. Feinberg, to be Deputy Secretary of Defense
Billionaire investor Stephen Feinberg is the co-chief executive of Cerberus Capital Management LP, a private equity firm that has invested in defense contractors. He served on an intelligence advisory board during Trump’s 2017-2021 White House term.
Edgar served in the first Trump administration as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the Department of Homeland Security (confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a vote of 62-31). He oversaw the department’s financial policy, systems modernization, fiscal operations and was responsible for their $90 billion budget.
He started his consulting career at PricewaterhouseCoopers after nearly a decade with Boeing as the CFO for the company’s $3 billion military aircraft logistics and C17 USAF/Boeing Globemaster III Sustainment Partnership business. He later founded Global Conductor, a $130 million corporate consulting firm.
Bishop is the North Carolina legislator who was the author of the notorious anti-transgender “bathroom bill.”
