Since I reached out on Saturday, Senate Republicans have unfortunately continued to hold working people, our health care system, and small businesses hostage.

After promising they would rush relief to working families and small businesses in need, Republicans have gone back on their word. Instead, Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump are demanding that the bill include a $500 billion slush fund for big corporations with no strings attached. In other words, they want to hand a blank half-trillion dollar check to President Trump and Secretary Mnuchin to give away to their favorite special interests without public accountability. We can't allow this.

The Republican plan also badly shortchanges our dire health needs and contains insufficient relief for hospitals under financial strain and health care workers who desperately need personal protective equipment.

Add your name here to join me in demanding that Senate Republicans stop playing games with our health and economic security, and start getting to work for the American people.

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At this moment of national emergency, we must ensure that Congress enacts measures that help people most in need — and do it now. That’s why we must mount a full-scale effort to end the shortage of critical medical supplies, including masks to protect health care workers, re-agents so we can produce more tests, and ventilators to help the rising number of sick patients.

The Administration has moved far too slowly. We need to fire on all cylinders immediately to end these shortages.

Sign on if you agree we need a huge, whole-of-nation effort to address the threats to our healthcare system and expand hospital capacity now.

We must also address the escalating economic fallout from the crisis. Thousands of people have already lost jobs, but the Republican plan does far too little for workers and small businesses, and too much for big corporations — without requiring adequate accountability measures. We cannot allow big corporations to use taxpayer funds for stock buybacks, executive bonuses, or other perks.

I have introduced measures to put workers, families, and students first. We must provide robust, extended unemployment insurance for workers losing their jobs, including the self-employed and those laboring in the gig economy. I have also put forward a rescue plan for hard-hit small and medium-sized businesses, and non-profit organizations, who — without emergency help — are going under. And I have called upon federal financial regulators to do everything in their power to stop foreclosures and evictions during this national emergency.

Sign if you support an economic response that puts American workers, families, and small businesses first.

Together we must demand a strong, commonsense response that targets the needs of those who are suffering most from this crisis. I discussed these priorities earlier today on the Senate floor.

We must act quickly and wisely!

Chris