Senator Sherrod Brown Secures Major Funding for Ohio, NLRB in Funding Package

With urging from Sherrod Brown, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that provides funding for essential priorities for American families. Senator Brown was able to secure key wins for Ohio to lower costs and invest in healthcare, the environment, science and research, agriculture, public safety, local projects and other priorities. 

“This is a bipartisan success for Ohio that builds on our work to create jobs, invest in workers and their families, and lower costs for Ohioans. We are making critical investments that our state needs to do – everything from cleaning up Lake Erie to supporting Ohio’s military facilities, supporting our veterans and providing necessary funding in agriculture and nutrition programs,” said Brown.

Brown successfully pressed for priorities that will help create jobs, lower costs for families, and invest in Ohio communities. The bill helps to create and sustain good-paying American jobs through investments in job training and worker protections, including funding the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

The NLRB received an increase of $25 million to allow the worker agency to provide the necessary resources and workforce to support worker rights to organize and fight union busting efforts. Brown sent a letter in March to the Office of Management and Budget then-Acting Director Shalanda Young requesting that funding be increased for the NLRB in the fiscal year 2023 budget request so that it has the resources to stand up for American workers. Brown sent an additional letter to Senate Appropriations in May 2022 urging for additional resources for NLRB. Funding for the agency has remained flat since 2014, leading to consistent underfunding and understaffing issues. 

Thank you Sherrod Brown for fighting for jobs and worker rights!

Read more how this funding package will help working and retired Ohioans here