Indivisibles,

This morning, President Biden released plans to relieve more borrowers of student debt, increasing the total number of people his debt relief programs will impact to approximately 30 million.

If you don’t remember, Biden’s plan from 2022 to eliminate up to $20,000 in student debt for borrowers on federal loans was overturned by the MAGA Supreme Court. But, debt relief is a promise he has stuck with since his 2020 campaign. And though Trump’s court opposed him, saddling the American people with more unnecessary debt, Biden has never given up -- methodically working to eliminate billions of dollars in debt for borrowers. The job isn’t done, and our fight continues.

On the other side of the aisle, Donald Trump announced last night that he would be making a statement on his views on abortion policy this morning, and this morning he…said nothing.

Well, that’s not entirely true, he tried to play both sides: bragging about ending Roe v. Wade while staying non-committal on a national abortion ban and slyly acting like he was leaving it to the states -- you know, how it already is because of his Supreme Court. But he told on himself in his preview post on Truth Social: 

“but at the same time we must use common sense in realizing that we have an obligation to the salvation of our Nation, which is currently in serious DECLINE, TO WIN ELECTIONS, without which we will have nothing other than failure, death, and destruction” (Emphasis and grammar his). 

Those are the words of a man signaling to his followers that he will lie to win an election and then rip away our rights. 

Don’t believe us? Here are multiple examples of his plan to implement a national abortion ban.

This is the duality we are faced with. 

A president who will stand with integrity in transparently doing everything he can to fulfill his campaign promises, and a con man who disguises his hostility to our rights to gain the votes he needs to end reproductive freedom once and for all. 

Truth and accountability or lies and opacity -- which would you prefer?

With that, here are your weekly to-dos:

 Your weekly to-dos 

1. Sign up to defend democracy from Trump with Project 2024: Majority Over MAGA. Our Project 2024 was made in direct opposition to Trump’s dangerous MAGA objectives. This new electoral program will ensure Indivisibles all across the country have the opportunity to make a difference in the highest-priority races this cycle and prevent a MAGA catastrophe from taking place. This will include tactics like phonebanking, postcarding, and direct-to-voter texting along with our groundbreaking community conversation strategy: Neighbor2Neighbor. Sign up to be the first to know when we launch our tools in your area.
2. Call your senator and demand they protect in vitro fertilization (IVF) access nationwide. The MAGA agenda did not just stop at repealing Roe. They intend to ban contraception, IVF, gender-affirming care, marriage equality, and more. Sen. Tammy Duckworth has introduced the Access to Family Building Act, a bill that would enshrine access to IVF and related services as a federal right, protecting both would-be families and their medical providers. If your senator is a Democrat, call and make sure they are a cosponsor. If your senator is a Republican, tell them to put their money where their mouth is, pass this bill, and actually support families. 
3. When you’re finished calling, send your senators an email urging them to protect IVF access. 
4. Email your MoC about cosponsoring H.R. 732 -- the Save Medicare Act. We know the MAGA agenda includes ending Medicare as we know it -- and a big part of their scheme includes handing the reins to private insurers. But we’ve seen what happens when greedy insurance companies are put in charge: Medicare Advantage, the privatized option for Medicare, is rampant with fraud and overspending. If we allow insurance companies unchecked power to run the program, we risk sticking millions of Americans with coverage that promises quality healthcare only to deny coverage for essential care and services. Congress must hold these predatory Medicare Advantage plans accountable, and that starts with blocking the deceptive naming of these private plans.

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Call for a Humanitarian Ceasefire

Last Monday, seven aid workers for the World Central Kitchen were killed while attempting to deliver food to the Palestinian people in a series of three successive strikes on three separate cars. Prime Minister of Israel Netanyahu and his military allies have called it a “grave mistake,” even as it follows a history of strikes against aid workers.

In a subsequent call with Netanyahu, President Biden, “emphasized that the strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation are unacceptable,” and warned the prime minister that conditions could be added to additional support if the Israeli military did not take steps to increase the flow of aid and limit civilian casualties.

In a message from our own Leah Greenberg, she stated: 

“It is a welcome development that President Biden, and his close allies like Senator Chris Coons, are putting conditions or limitations on military assistance to the Israeli government on the table. It is welcome, but insufficient. The famine conditions in Gaza, the unconscionable loss of Palestinian life, the killing of aid workers, and Israel’s restrictions on humanitarian assistance demand more urgency than simply putting options on the table.”

Six months later, with over 13,000 children killed, it is not enough to threaten to potentially revoke support after the death of 7 aid workers. We are beyond the point of empty promises from Netanyahu; we need action.

Following the White House’s meeting, 56 Democratic representatives sent a letter to the White House on Friday strongly urging President Biden to reconsider sending new arms to Israel (notably, this list included Nancy Pelosi for the first time). More leaders are coming to the understanding that Netanyahu will not stop the atrocities without stronger intervention, and we have a duty to the innocent people of Gaza not to help provide their means to their destruction.

In updated six-month recommendations from international policy experts at the Center for International Policy (CIP), CIP recommends that the US use leverage to press for a full ceasefire, fully enforce US law and arms policy, focus diplomacy toward a just resolution, take meaningful anti-occupation, anti-annexation steps, and substantially expand support for the Palestinian people and Palestinian leaders who seek peace. 

These are the actions we must take to end this conflict and create a lasting peace. The first step toward moving forward is charting the path to a ceasefire. Make sure your representatives are on board today!

 IndivisiWin of the Week 

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In solidarity,
Indivisible Team