On Twitter, former Vice President Joe Biden pledged to cut funding to the US Soccer Federation for World Cup funding if women don't get equal pay to their male counterparts
Former Vice President Joe Biden pledged to cut funding to the US Soccer Federation if women don't get equal pay to their male counterparts.
The team's fight for equal pay was rejected on Friday when a federal judge dismissed the players' claims that they were paid less than the men's national team.In a tweet Saturday afternoon, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee encouraged the women's national team to not give up their fight."This is not over yet. To @USSoccer: equal pay, now. Or else when I'm president, you can go elsewhere for World Cup funding," he wrote on Twitter.
To @USSoccer: equal pay, now. Or else when I'm president, you can go elsewhere for World Cup funding. https://t.co/XK6t9oM94k — Joe Biden May 2, 2020 This isn't the first time Biden has backed the USWNT. In 2019, he tweeted his best wishes to the team ahead of their match against Chile in the World Cup.Judge dismisses US women's national soccer team's equal pay claimsRead More"As we cheer them on in the World Cup, we must support their fight off the field for equal pay," he wrote on Twitter."In 2019, it's past time we close the pay gap and ensure women get paid as much as men.
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