Team,

It’s been two days, and I’m still fired up.

We heard a forceful, hopeful case for progress from President Biden in his State of the Union. The President commanded the room and Republicans left the House Chamber looking defeated.

President Biden made it abundantly clear that he is energetically fighting for the middle class. He’s putting a real check on corporate power and the crooked fossil fuel industry. Big special interests aren’t able to run the show anymore like they did under Trump. The President also strongly addressed the climate crisis and pledged to rid our political system of poisonous dark money.

He didn’t stop there. I couldn’t have been happier to hear him call for safeguarding Social Security and Medicare by making the wealthiest Americans finally start paying their fair share. I have a bill to do just that. We all know that under a Republican-run government, those bedrock middle-class programs would be under attack.

The President renewed his call to level the playing field so teachers and firefighters don’t pay a larger share of their income taxes than billionaires. I have a bill for that too. We’re growing the middle class.

There are big challenges ahead. We have to tackle climate change before it’s too late. We must defend democracy and freedom here at home and abroad. These battles will not be won overnight, but we can win them if we expand Democratic leadership in Washington.

Democrats time and time again have shown our party is the only one that is willing and able to tackle these challenges. So I’m personally asking: Will you donate what you can today to my re-election campaign so my fellow Democrats and I can continue to fight for a better future for every single American?

We’ve got a real fighter in President Biden. Let’s get him a big victory in November.

Sheldon Whitehouse

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