John,

Right-wing Republicans continue to add damaging far-right policies to their list of demands simply to keep the government running. And they now have just hours to go until a government shutdown.

Their demands include an across the board, minimum 30% cut to programs and services ranging from nutrition to housing to education. And, their demands for Trumpian border policies would jail children, build Trump’s border wall, and close the door on access to asylum for most.

We will not allow our federal government to be held hostage by a small group of right-wing extremists. Send an urgent message to your senators and representative right now and demand Congress pass a clean stopgap spending bill that does not attack low-income and immigrant people and families.

All members of Congress must hear from us immediately and know that we’re depending on them to do their jobs.

Meredith Dodson
Senior Director of Public Policy, Coalition on Human Needs

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John,

In order to appease the most far-right members of his caucus, Speaker Kevin McCarthy keeps adding poison pills to the stopgap spending bill being voted on in the House today.

At the same time, the Senate will be voting on their own continuing resolution (CR) where there have also been calls to add provisions that are hostile to immigrant communities.

Write to your senators and representative right now and demand they pass a clean CR that does not gut funding for critical human needs and does not harm immigrants seeking asylum within our borders.

Right now, the House is preparing to vote on a stopgap spending bill that cuts human needs services by at least 30%, including a 36% cut to housing programs for low-income families.¹

The attacks on immigrants, which both bodies are considering, includes:²

• Jailing and deporting unaccompanied children

• Jailing immigrant families seeking asylum

• Ending asylum as we know it at our southern border

• Restarting Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, but making it even worse by including unaccompanied children

• Gutting humanitarian aid programs including legal services, trauma-informed care, and community-based services

• Building Trump’s border wall

We are just 36 hours away from a shutdown. Quickly send a message to your members of Congress and demand a clean CR that does not harm vulnerable communities.

Thank you for taking urgent action to prevent a government shutdown, which would harm millions of low-income families as well as hundreds of thousands of government workers, many of whom already live paycheck to paycheck.

Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs

¹ https://twitter.com/josephzeballos/status/1707632447083487669
² VOTE NO on the Secure the Border Act (H.R. 2)