Washington, D.C. – December 22, 2025 – Today, North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) President Sean McGarvey issued the following statement:

“Once again, the Trump Administration has chosen politics over American workers and America’s future. Shutting down offshore wind projects doesn’t just pause construction. It kills thousands of good-paying jobs on projects that were legally permitted, fully vetted, fully funded, and already underway. These aren’t hypothetical jobs. They are real paychecks and billions in investment. Freezing them now is not a careful review. It is political gamesmanship that creates chaos for workers and the economy. This decision throws American blue-collar workers out of work, increases energy costs, and hands China a strategic advantage.

“With white-collar jobs evaporating, manufacturing shedding jobs all over the country, the middle class and working class being hammered by inflation, unemployment rising, and our overall economy tanking, this is when our federal government should be encouraging any and all economic activity, not crushing it.

“Halting these projects does not protect America. It weakens us, hurts our workers, and tells the world the U.S. is sitting on its hands while global competitors keep building. This order must be reversed. Working families are paying the price. This is one of the reasons why America is falling behind. We can’t afford to keep killing jobs.”

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Media Contact: Betsy Barrett, (202) 997-3266 | bbarrett@nabtu.org

About NABTU: North America’s Building Trades Unions is an alliance of 14 national and international unions in the building and construction industry, collectively representing over 3 million skilled craft professionals in the United States and Canada. Each year, our unions and signatory contractor partners invest almost $2 billion in private-sector money to fund and operate over 1,900 apprenticeship training and education facilities across North America that produce the safest, most highly trained, and most productive, skilled craft workers anywhere in the world. NABTU is dedicated to creating economic security and employment opportunities for its construction workers by safeguarding wage and benefits standards, promoting responsible private capital investments, investing in renowned apprenticeship and training, and creating more construction career pathways to the middle class for women, communities of color, Indigenous people, veterans, and the justice-involved. For more information, please visit nabtu.org.