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Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) issued the following statement on his vote in favor of the appropriations deal that prevents another shutdown:

“Our country hasn’t even licked its wounds from President Trump’s egotistical, politically-motivated temper tantrum that forced 420,000 federal workers to work without pay and 380,000 to face the uncertainty of a forced furlough, and we cannot make our workforce go through it again. And, that is not even taking into account the thousands more federal contractors who went without pay, as well. American workers undeservedly were the ones that suffered during the longest-ever, 35-day shutdown and that’s despicable. I voted in favor of today’s funding bill to keep our government open because of America’s workers and my fundamental belief that we must stop governing from crisis-to-crisis."

Congressman Donald Norcross used the State of the Union to bring attention to those impacted in New Jersey by the partial federal government shutdown.

Norcross invited Robert Martinez, Jr., the international president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union, to be his guest at the State of the Union Address to highlight the need to provide lost wages to federal contractors.

Following President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross released the following statement:

“Many working men and women voted for candidate Trump because they believed his promise to rebuild our infrastructure, create jobs and raise wages. But President Trump is failing to deliver on his promises to the middle class, and he’s only doing things to make the rich richer, divide Americans and make our country less secure. This is worse than all talk and no action. Trump is all talk and bad actions."

U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (D-NJ-01) is on the House education and labor committee. He believes urban areas have been "vastly underserved."

"We want to do more than just talk about it,” he said. “We want to make sure that we invest in that next generation."

Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), and Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) led House and Senate Democrats in introducing a proposal to invest more than $100 billion in America’s public schools. The Rebuild America’s Schools Act would fund $70 billion in grants and $30 billion in bonds to help address critical physical and digital infrastructure needs in schools across the country. According to economic projections, the bill would also create more than 1.9 million good-paying jobs.