John, 

Last week was tough. I cut short my travel on behalf of the House Intelligence Committee to fly back to Washington to try to derail the Republican budget. It was hard to watch Republican after Republican go back on their promise to protect Medicare, bring down spending and our ballooning national debt, and slow inflation and make life more affordable for everyday Americans. The Republican budget is a betrayal of all of that, and it will take us years to recover.

I, along with my Democratic colleagues, threw everything we could at the process to stop the bill. We offered amendment after amendment to make the bill better (Republicans accepted none of them), we tried procedural motions to end the congressional session and send everyone home, we’ve been begging and badgering our Republican colleagues behind the scene to vote no, and my friend, Hakeem Jeffries’ broke the record for longest floor speech (almost 9 hours) to give voters a little more time to call their Representative and urge them to vote no.

As Hakeem implored Republicans not to sell out the poor and working class so that the wealthiest Americans could pay less in taxes, I was there. Were Republicans? No, the chamber was empty. I thought I would be demoralized by this loss, but I’m not, and I hope you aren’t either. 

Our party’s leader, Hakeem, invoked both John Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr. in his remarks: 

John Lewis: "Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year; it is the struggle of a lifetime.”

Martin Luther King Jr.: “If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl, but at all times, press on.”

And he closed with a powerful reference to the Declaration of Independence. He said that our nation’s founders had “aspirational dreams for a new country that guaranteed its citizens the inalienable rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness” while the rest of the document reads like “an indictment against an out of control king. And why was that indictment issued? I think it was because the framers of this great country, they were fed up with Project 1775 and so they implemented Project 1776. I know there are people concerned with what’s happening in America, but understand, what our journey teaches us is that after Project 2025 comes Project 2026.”

Project 2026 is all of us working to right the ship in November. We can do this. We must. Thank you for being in this fight with me.  

There is still work to be done,

Chrissy



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