ABC Endorses Trump for President
The Associated Builders and Contractors has announced its endorsement of former President Donald Trump.
n a letter to the campaign, ABC President and CEO Michael D. Bellaman, and Buddy Henley, 2024 Chair of the ABC National Board of Directors, expressed their support for Trump's leadership in the construction industry.
They criticized the Biden administration's policies and expressed a desire to work with a president who supports the entire construction industry, regardless of union affiliation.
“After almost four years of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ anti-competitive, inflationary, and divisive policies undermining taxpayer investments in America’s infrastructure, ABC is looking forward to working with a president who is willing to welcome all of the U.S. construction industry to rebuild America,” the letter states.
“With a skilled labor shortage of more than half a million people in 2024, construction materials prices up 32% since President Biden took office, and a politically expedient regulatory regime undercutting the construction industry's ability to deliver the infrastructure America deserves, now is the time for experienced and strong Trump leadership," it continues. “For too long, the Biden/Harris administration’s policies have locked out nearly 90% of the construction workforce—that’s more than 7.3 million workers—simply because they have chosen not to belong to a union."
The ABC leadership team concluded by expressing
their commitment to working with a future Trump administration.
“We will work together to create the conditions for all Americans to prosper and achieve their career dreams by addressing issues critical to the merit shop construction industry,” the letter states.
Items on ABC's agenda for a new administration include:
- Rolling back exclusionary Biden/Harris administration regulations promoting and mandating project labor agreements on federal and federally assisted construction projects, which effectively lock out almost 9 out of 10 U.S. construction workers from building taxpayer-funded projects because they are not members of unions.
- Providing the construction industry small businesses with tax certainty and fairness.
- Enhancing an inclusive, all-of-the-above workforce development strategy where workers and employers have the freedom to choose the best way to develop the construction industry’s workforce through industry-recognized and government-registered apprenticeship programs that provide value as we build America’s people and projects.
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