Hi team,

We're approaching a government shutdown at the end of the week.

In December, President Biden signed a stopgap spending bill to keep the government open while Congress builds out a new budget. That 'Continuing Resolution' bill expires on March 14–which means that Congress is now rushing to get a budget approved. 

Last week, their framework proposing trillions of dollars in federal funding cuts to give tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy passed. But it'll take weeks to write out all of the details—weeks that Congress doesn't have, because the stopgap bill expires on Friday. 

Now Congressional Republicans are trying to pass another Continuing Resolution before the shutdown. This one would cut funding for nondefense programs and services by $13 billion and remove normal spending guardrails, giving the White House (and Elon Musk) unprecedented power to decide how federal money gets spent. The cuts proposed will cripple funding for health, education, and environmental protection—making us all poorer, sicker, and less safe.

Join your community of EnviroVoters to email your Congressional Representatives and ask them to protect essential programs by voting NO on the Continuing Resolution.

Trump is already threatening to withhold $40 billion in federal funding from California wildfire victims, and putting him in charge of federal spending will only make it worse. The proposed Continuing Resolution already targets California's water programs specifically, along with cutting federal protections for climate, transportation, and agriculture. 

With Republicans refusing to take care of all American citizens, California's going to have to pick up the bill on the state level to make sure Californians get the care they need. That will come at a steep cost, forcing our state to cut some essential programs of our own. Climate programs are typically the first on the chopping block—despite being our communities' main protection from imminent climate disaster.

This is concerning to us, and I bet it's concerning to you, friend. That's why we're asking our community of EnviroVoters to join us in standing up against these program cuts.  

Using our quick email form, send a message to your representatives in Congress and tell them why the Continuing Resolution puts Californians at risk.

Thanks for being part of this movement,

Aaron McCall
Federal Advocacy Coordinator, California EnviroVoters

California Environmental Voters
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