The Professional Services Council today sharply criticized the
American Federation of Government Employees for urging the executive branch to
focus its budget reduction efforts on federal contractors because AFGE
incorrectly believes contractors have been largely “spared” any impacts from
the government’s fiscal challenges.
“AFGE’s perspective is wrong on multiple levels,” PSC President and CEO
Stan Soloway said in a media statement. “To start with, they ignore the thousands of contractor jobs that
have already been cut, as well as the thousands more that will have to be cut
in the execution of the OMB and DoD implementation guidance. Even worse, their
perspective ignores entirely the best interests of the agencies and the
taxpayer.”
“We cannot approach our current
fiscal crisis solely on the basis of parochial interest. Every community that
supports the government is already being affected, and will continue to be
affected, by the government’s fiscal challenges,” Soloway continued. “That
includes federal employees, contractors, grantees, state and local entities and
more. None of us like it, but we all must face it. As we have repeatedly stated, rather than arbitrarily targeting one community or the other, agencies
must be free to strategically determine how to meet their individual short- and
long-term mission requirements in the most efficient and effective manner.”
