Update on Our Priorities

Last updated: Dec. 17, 2025

AFSCME members help pass two of our priorities in Congress

Thanks to AFSCME members and our allies, Congress passed two important bills to protect public safety professionals. The Improving Police CARE Act will create strong nationwide standards for trauma kits and allow law enforcement agencies to purchase these life-saving kits through federal grants. The Chief Herbert D. Proffitt Act will expand public safety officer benefits to retired law enforcement officers, including corrections officers, who are killed or permanently disabled in a targeted attack because of their service in law enforcement.

AFSCME members support these policies because we can’t protect our communities without the equipment and respect we deserve.