Send a Letter to the Editor to your local paper calling on your elected
leaders to avoid a government shutdown and pass a budget that lifts up our
families
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Dear Friend,
The clock is ticking and unless immediate action is taken, in less than a
week the federal government will run out of money and shutdown on October
1st. [ [link removed] ]This is not a drill! House Republicans have created this totally
manufactured, preventable crisis that will hurt our families, workers
(especially military and government workers), veterans, children, and our
economy.
Government shutdowns are a total failure of governance and because
Republicans in the House of Representatives are choosing partisan antics
and extremism over doing their job, we are days away from that failure.
Yikes.
How can you help stop this? I’m so glad you asked!
[ [link removed] ]***Send a Letter to the Editor to your local paper calling on your
elected leaders to avoid a government shutdown and pass a budget that
lifts up our families, including fully funding programs like WIC and child
care! (We make it super easy using our letter to the editor tool.)
[ [link removed] ]Why do letters to the editor matter so much right now? Simply put—U.S.
Senators and Representatives read their local papers! By submitting a
letter you are helping us raise the profile on this very important issue
and ringing the alarm bells that we expect Congress to avoid a shutdown
and do their jobs by passing a budget that lifts up our families and
children.
Don’t worry—sending the Letter to the Editor is super easy! When you click
on the link above, we’ll lead you through a quick process to write a
Letter to the Editor to your local newspaper. This tool is pretty
magical—you can easily edit our pre-drafted letter, if you wish (inserting
your personal story if you have one!), and send it to your paper with just
a few clicks.
The pre-drafted letter ([ [link removed] ]which you can edit when you click through to
the link!) simply says:
We are days away from the federal government shutting down because
extremist House Republicans are choosing partisan antics over funding the
programs that lift up our families, communities, and economy.
House Republicans want to shut down the government, collapse our economy,
and jam their right-wing agenda down our throats–slashing funding for
everything from WIC for postpartum moms and babies, to K-12 education,
while at the same time passing anti-immigrant policies.
We will not stand for this! Our elected leaders need to do their job:
avoid a shutdown and pass a budget that lifts up children, families, and
our economy, including fully funding WIC and childcare.
(If you will be personally impacted by a government shutdown or the budget
cuts the Republicans are proposing, feel free to include that in your
Letter to the Editor too).
[ [link removed] ]**Take a minute to send a letter to your local paper now! This action
is high-impact and will definitely get the attention of your elected
leaders in Congress. (We make it really easy for you using our LTE tool!)
House Republicans continue to practice chaos politics. House Republicans
have put forth purely partisan spending bills that slash funding for
programs our families need to build a good life and our economy needs to
grow –everything from nutrition assistance like WIC, to child care
assistance, to funding for the IRS to collect taxes from the rich and
powerful. To make matters worse every…single…bill…they’ve passed includes
anti-immigrant, anti-abortion, anti-education, anti-LGBTQ+,
anti-environment language such as making abortion illegal nationally,
slashing climate crisis funding, and opening up discrimination against the
LGBTQ+ community.
The House Republicans’ plan is obvious: they want to hold families,
workers, and our economy hostage by shutting down the government and then
jam their right-wing extremist agenda through Congress. At risk is the
funding of programs that grow the economy, raise incomes and cut costs for
families, including health care, child care, maternal and mental health,
job training, and environmental safety programs.
This is all the more reason we need YOU to speak out and show the
real-world costs of this partisan, damaging chaos! [ [link removed] ]Send your Letter to
the Editor to your local paper using our super easy tool and then share
our action page with your friends and family so they can send a letter as
well.
Thank you for using your voice at this crucial time!
-Elyssa, Kristin, Donna, Hanna, Jordan, and the whole MomsRising.org &
MamásConPoder Team
P.S. How would you be impacted by a government shutdown? [ [link removed] ]Share your
story with us!
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