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Dear John,
Last week, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) blocked [[link removed]] the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) from spending their congressionally appropriated funds on initiatives regarding gun violence and its related traumas, including:
* Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
* Firearm violence prevention research
* Youth violence prevention, and others.
This is outrageous. In March, Congress approved funding for the CDC to do this exact work, and it was signed into law . We cannot allow the White House and OMB to continue freezing or blocking funds for lifesaving violence prevention work.
Contact your Members of Congress and Senators today and urge them to demand that OMB release the CDC’s critical funding for gun violence research and youth violence prevention.
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Dear [ Senator/Representative X ] ,
As a constituent in [ City, State ] , I am deeply concerned by a funding restriction the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently placed on several injury and violence prevention programs funded through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC).
When OMB sent its most recent 30-day funding allocation to NCIPC, they included language restricting the agency from spending any FY 2025 funds to support the following programs:
* Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
* Firearm violence prevention research
* Youth violence prevention
This restriction contradicts the funding decisions approved by Congress when it passed the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act in March 2025, and it will harm our ability to better understand and prevent gun violence and youth violence.
I urge you to contact officials at OMB and the White House to ask that they immediately reverse OMB’s FY25 funding restriction on NCIPC-funded programs. These programs are vital to our state and work to keep our communities safe from injuries and violence.
Thank you,
[ Your Name ]

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