This week, Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats introduced the HEROES Act to fund urgent priorities including providing nearly $1 trillion in relief for state and local governments that will otherwise have to layoff frontline workers and cut essential public services.

This support will help fund key public health operations, keep emergency first responders on the job, pay the teachers helping our students learn remotely ⁠— and fund other critical municipal services. The need for these services doesn't stop while we quarantine at home! But state and local government budgets are being devastated as sales tax and other revenue dries up.

They need our help NOW.

Unfortunately, Mitch McConnell doesn't care. He has said the states can go bankrupt. That may be McConnell's solution, but it is not ours.

Add your name to demand Mitch McConnell stop blocking vital relief needed to help state and local governments maintain essential services for American families during this crisis.

The HEROES Act also funds priorities like contact tracing to fight the virus, hazard pay for frontline workers, emergency help for the U.S. Postal Service, support for voting by mail, funds to help close the inequitable “homework gap,” and more.

But Mitch won't consider any of these priorities without a get-out-of-jail free card for big corporations. He is demanding Congress provide a liability shield that protects corporations from consequences for negligently exposing their workers and customers to unnecessary risks to their health and their lives.

Sign on to tell Mitch: support working families instead of shielding big corporations!

The fight against the virus is far from over. We need the HEROES Act now.

We’re in this together,

Chris