CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN AND SENATOR AND TELL THEM TO VOTE NO ON THIS BOGUS CR.
What someone wrote their elected representatives:
Dear Senator McSenatorFace,
1. I do not think that the Continuing Resolution working its way through the House is a “clean” CR. I think that if Democrats vote for it and it passes, it will reward and encourage the lawless behavior of Trump and Musk and that they will continue to usurp the powers of Congress.
2. I therefore think that you should vote against this CR unless it can be heavily amended to include iron-clad assurances to the effect of: No deal unless Trump is forced to re-swear that he will quit breaking the law AND Musk and DOGE must be removed from any role in the federal government. Since I don’t think any such assurances are possible, even if such amendments are added to the CR, I think you should vote against this CR.
3. Regardless of my input, I request a response from you telling me specifically what your intentions are with regards to this CR as it is understood as of today.
Thank you for your time and consideration,
Constituent McConstituentFace
These are the Republican priorities:
🌊 R Saddler
@Politics_PR
🚨 The 99-Page Republican Budget Just Dropped And It’s BrutalHouse Republicans just unveiled their 99-page budget, and the numbers don’t lie, it’s packed with cuts that hurt everyday Americans. Here’s what’s getting slashed:
🔴 VA Healthcare ⬇️ $15 BILLION – Less funding for medical services & private care. Veterans get longer wait times. 🇺🇸
🔴 Rural Broadband ⬇️ $50 MILLION – Internet expansion for rural communities? Not a priority. 🚜
🔴 Food Assistance for Seniors ⬇️ $100 MILLION – Cuts to the Commodity Supplemental Food Program. Seniors struggling to eat? Too bad. 🥫
🔴 Medicaid Hospital Funding ⬇️ $8 BILLION – Payments to hospitals serving low-income patients delayed & reduced. Expect closures in rural & urban areas. 🏥
🔴 Affordable Housing ⬇️ $34 MILLION – Less rental assistance for low-income families, veterans, & seniors. Homelessness? On the rise. 🏠
🔴 Border Security ⬇️ No New Hiring – No extra Border Patrol funding. So much for “secure the border.” 🤷
🔴 Cybersecurity ⬇️ No Increase – No boost in funding to combat China, Russia, & North Korea’s cyberattacks. National security? Who needs it. 💻 🇺🇸
🔴 WIC (Women, Infants, & Children Program) ⬇️ $1.5 BILLION UNDER REQUESTED LEVELS – Nutritional aid for struggling mothers & kids—not a priority.
🔴 Flood Prevention & Disaster Relief ⬇️ $500 MILLION – Less funding to protect red states from floods & hurricanes. Florida, Texas, Louisiana… good luck. 🌊
The bottom line: These aren’t just numbers—they’re real people losing healthcare, housing, and security. And yet, some in Congress will brag about this budget.
Ask them: “Which of these cuts are you proud of?” 🤨
#Veterans #Farmers #AARP
There is NOT ONE DEMOCRAT THAT NEEDS TO VOTE FOR THIS.
Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
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Republicans are determined to shut down the government and crash the economy.
We will not be party to their toxic scheme.
GOP funding patch boosts defense and deportations, cuts other programs
Meredith Lee Hill and Jennifer Scholtes
Sat, March 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM CST5 min read
A seven-month funding patch released by House Republicans Saturday would add billions of dollars in spending for deportations, veterans’ health care and the military while cutting an even greater amount of funding for non-defense programs.
The measure, crafted by Speaker Mike Johnson in coordination with the White House, reflects President Donald Trump’s top policy priorities and heightens a confrontation with Democrats ahead of a Friday midnight shutdown deadline.
Trump on Saturday urged Republicans to back the legislation: “We have to remain UNITED — NO DISSENT — Fight for another day when the timing is right. VERY IMPORTANT,” he wrote on Truth Social.
House Democratic leaders have already declared themselves firmly opposed to the GOP-written stopgap. They spent weeks trading offers with Republicans to clinch a bipartisan government funding deal before House GOP leaders decided to pivot to the patch through September, which would give Trump substantially more leeway to shift federal cash.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the House’s top Democratic appropriator, called the funding patch a “power grab for the White House,” warning that the bill would allow Trump and his chief “efficiency” adviser Elon Musk “to steal from the American people.”
Nick Knudsen
@nickknudsenus.bsky.socialFollow
TELL THE TRUTH.The Republicans’ proposed continuing resolution to avert a government shutdown has a bunch of poison pills.
Example:
It zeroes out the Toxic Exposures Fund to care for veterans exposed to burn pits, Agent Orange, and other toxic substances.
Heartless MONSTERS who HATE our vets.
March 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
https://bsky.app/profile/nickknudsenus.bsky.social/post/3ljvddrulqs2d
skooks (@skooookum) posted at 6:15 PM on Mon, Mar 10, 2025:
my 401k provider put a trigger warning on the login page https://t.co/XDoLgbHEYT
(https://x.com/skooookum/status/1899237830246686934?t=Jltcz6vY3zBOdmsvS1mK1w&s=03)
Something else those of us who feel safe doing so can do: Flood DOGE with FOIA requests for what they are doing with our data, now that a federal court judge ruled they are subject to FOIA. See the link below from Jamie Raskin:
https://jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy-act-requests/
Local Action Together NEPA sent me this Freedom Over Fascism Toolkit. I’m getting involved. Sharing is caring!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s0JbXhND7-1iqABNcUNL031NQLxkLfr-USkCKGZTidI/edit?usp=drivesdk
Updated version
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s0JbXhND7-1iqABNcUNL031NQLxkLfr-USkCKGZTidI/edit?usp=drivesdk
Intro
Generations of Americans before us have faced and fought oppression, confronting forces determined to harm their lives and endanger their livelihoods while still forging ahead toward the unrealized promise of liberty and justice for all. Now, it is our turn to pick up the baton and show up – marching, striking, voting and protecting each other – for our freedoms, our families, and our futures. We have won fights against exploitation by a wealthy, White few before, and by joining together, we will again.
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
They are totally different lanes.
Nobody’s giving up that cast iron that they most likely inherited when Grandmama or Mama died.
It’s like that Black and White spotted roaster. That thing was in my family until it rusted out after 30 years
Nelly
@ValleyGirl629
Oh dear. The Pots Are Fighting! 🤣
Lodge Cast Iron Basically:
“Stop Giving Your Money To Le Creuset! Ya’ll Can Make Duchess Meghan’s One Skillet Spaghetti Right Here For 89 Bucks!”
💳:
@ChrisBaronSmit1
#WithLoveMeghan #MeghanSussex #PrinceHarry
https://x.com/ValleyGirl629/status/1899620010261164276
Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) posted at 1:02 PM on Tue, Mar 11, 2025:
Corrupt billionaire Nazi Musk came to the U.S. illegally and was given billions of dollars in govt contracts, but when regular people start benefiting from the same entitlements he gladly took and loved, he hates them and wants them gone. Keep social security, remove him instead.
(https://x.com/TheRickyDavila/status/1899521204303847570?t=4iU7uzTWUgAUfPTPZKgJLQ&s=03)
Dr. Allison Wiltz (@queenie4rmnola) posted at 9:28 AM on Tue, Mar 11, 2025:
Angola prison in Louisiana the largest mass security prison in the United States. It’s a former plantation. Today, 74% of those incarcerated there are Black. Those toiling in the fields are paid nothing for the first 3 years. Then they make $0.02 per hour. Slavery by another name https://t.co/Q4ZBootQ70
(https://x.com/queenie4rmnola/status/1899467536938529165?t=jWZZjTQlJUPmb-yhhXk3Rw&s=03)
VoteVets (@votevets) posted at 0:01 PM on Tue, Mar 11, 2025:
🚨 Republicans are gutting Veteran healthcare. 🚨
❌ $23B slashed from the PACT Act
❌ Toxic exposure care eliminated
❌ Housing & Social Security cuts
This isn’t fiscal responsibility. It’s a betrayal.
#RepublicanCutsHurtVeterans
(https://x.com/votevets/status/1899505858683265533?t=H6NOkHRMSDmHpq2hM7vrcw&s=03)
scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) posted at 2:22 PM on Tue, Mar 11, 2025:
You see the consequences of the media’s inaccurate economic coverage under Biden playing out now. They ignored all the positive economic signs and focused solely on one thing – inflation – that was a worldwide problem, so now it’s impossible to retroactively correct the record.
(https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/1899541489127993383?t=REEl1qHPxbp8pYVqF8NNFQ&s=03)
Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner) posted at 0:47 PM on Tue, Mar 11, 2025:
Republicans are trying to blame the current economic downturn on ‘Biden’s Economy’. But America’s markets surged ahead of Europe’s under Biden, and then fell far behind once Trump got started. https://t.co/FEcxMTNW6c
(https://x.com/SteveRattner/status/1899517563849060813?t=xmDz3ybzrjiwofS71f0b0A&s=03)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 3:15 PM on Tue, Mar 11, 2025:
asked about the possible interruption of benefits for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid recipients, Elon Musk says, “only by tackling the waste and fraud in entitlements like Social Security, Medicare, can we actually preserve those programs for the future.” https://t.co/XTLf89DRH8
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1899554726368129242?t=F6JN4GoEbCdzYehowHvMww&s=03)
We knew that they put a C*** in charge of HUD.
Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) posted at 0:27 PM on Tue, Mar 11, 2025:
HUD has scrapped the Affirmative Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule — requiring states to prove they were actively combating housing discrimination. Now, localities only have to promise they mean well. This is a major setback for fair housing. https://t.co/ZAfWvKfGmv
(https://x.com/AttorneyCrump/status/1899512521838494171?t=MbNps_aJCmabq4k4SXfwjA&s=03)
Candidly Tiff (@tify330) posted at 3:35 PM on Tue, Mar 11, 2025:
I truly believe the pandemic broke peoples minds and destroyed common sense. How did so many people become anti-vax and align with white Christian Nationalism. The racism, sexism homophobia, transphobia, anti-semitism, xenophobia and every other bigotry is so damn prevalent.
(https://x.com/tify330/status/1899559781058154751?t=qUTNQ8LhAOXJBZc9JuYKOw&s=03)
Candidly Tiff (@tify330) posted at 3:36 PM on Tue, Mar 11, 2025:
If you don’t see how Trump won then you are blind cause it’s so obvious. The manosphere, bro culture and the patriarchy are out of control. Not to be an alarmist but WTF is happening.
(https://x.com/tify330/status/1899560142644846657?t=Y0z4yWmQBkUJr-y-mteyKA&s=03)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 3:24 PM on Tue, Mar 11, 2025:
holy shit — Trump was reading from a literal Tesla sales pitch, complete with pricing, during his White House event with Elon Musk. (Andrew Harnik/Getty) https://t.co/hT7fNLRrY3
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1899557134402019359?t=akWghbHYKEdkyYcsh07jGg&s=03)
Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) posted at 3:34 PM on Tue, Mar 11, 2025:
MUSK on JANUARY 6: Great job everyone, I support pardons for all of you and am giving $290M to the man who organized this
MUSK on TESLA PROTESTS: This is illegal, you’re all domestic terrorists, the organizers of this must be arrested
See how *easy* it is to have no principles?
(https://x.com/SethAbramson/status/1899559625646555592?t=sB4T4vDIzbvjKQKTeQJP2w&s=03)
Brett Murphy (@BrettMmurphy) posted at 10:40 AM on Tue, Mar 11, 2025:
ProPublica just obtained a remarkable directive to those remaining at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then …
“Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break.”
(https://x.com/BrettMmurphy/status/1899485474088976605?t=tNIRbOJqwv3779d07aXwfA&s=03)
Brett Murphy (@BrettMmurphy) posted at 10:40 AM on Tue, Mar 11, 2025:
The email came from from the agency’s acting executive secretary. I asked Kel McClanahan, a national security attorney, if this was legal. He said: “No it is not,” citing the Federal Records Act. “Classified records are still federal records.”
(https://x.com/BrettMmurphy/status/1899485475649261878?t=A80i4zke44GxFRIUP8w1JQ&s=03)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 3:40 PM on Tue, Mar 11, 2025:
HUNT: Do you think you can cut $700b without touching law-abiding American citizens who are entitled to their benefits under Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid? Do you think that’s really possible?
CHIP ROY: *ignores question, rants about other things* https://t.co/4HC3h5zGLx
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1899561079069397278?t=CkqX19a8kdtdOV-5FronPw&s=03)
Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) posted at 2:39 PM on Tue, Mar 11, 2025:
Donald Trump doing a Tesla infomercial for Elon Musk—his biggest political donor—in front of the White House is peak corruption. https://t.co/EpQ43g9dEg
(https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1899545819717451817?t=_PP_OGSt1lGJMukPii4-cg&s=03)
George Conway (@gtconway3d) posted at 11:41 AM on Tue, Mar 11, 2025:
“Conway opines as to why Biglaw firms aren’t collectively working together to fight what Trump is doing and protect the legal system as we know it, and he chalks a lot of it up to cowardice. Too many firms are keeping their heads down because they don’t want to catch the attention of Trump and wind up in the crosshairs. Conway compares them to Republican Senators that won’t stand up to Trump because they are ‘just a bunch of pussies.’ Which … unfortunately checks out.”
(https://x.com/gtconway3d/status/1899500829280723411?t=LaOWOb1u8ljCHvdaPqgwyg&s=03)
Jordan Weissmann (@JHWeissmann) posted at 11:54 AM on Wed, Mar 12, 2025:
DOGE is considering no longer allowing senior citizens to file Social Security claims over the phone, and instead requiring them to do it online or in person at a field office, according to WaPo.
This is the kind of thing that seems designed to absolutely maximize political pain for zero to no policy gain.
https://t.co/KHf8OISJJF
(https://x.com/JHWeissmann/status/1899866546547081580?t=EKa9Qul939T-v-f0B2Xw9g&s=03)
Good Morning Everyone 😊😊😊