Dr. Byrce Pulliam spends his nights in a community emergency room in Southern Oregon, where the line between life and death can come down to seconds—and insurance coverage.

“I show up 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year with one goal in mind: to provide excellent care for patients in crisis. Being a doctor is often challenging, but it has become harder because our nation’s healthcare system is on life support,” he said before a House hearing on Oct. 8.

Scarlett Ahmed has started counting the number of people sleeping outside the Queens Career Center in New York City when she arrives at work in the morning.

“It was already bad,” she said. “But this? This will just add to it.”

Join AFT Maryland and your union colleagues for Lobby Night in Annapolis

Monday, February 9, 2026 (New Date!)

The bus from Baltimore will leave at 5:00 p.m. sharp from AFT Maryland offices.

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Attack what binds us together, and you'll find out why it holds.

Our union took the fight to the federal government – and we won. On Wednesday, the Trump administration withdrew their appeal in the lawsuit we filed against the Department of Education's "Dear Colleague Letter," which attempted to seize educators’ freedom of speech, rewrite what can be taught, and control what students can learn. You can read more about the win in The New York Times.

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