Friend,

I keep hearing talk in Harrisburg about passing a “responsible” budget — but I have to ask: what’s responsible about being more than 110 days late to doing your constitutionally required job? How is it responsible to turn a blind eye to the suffering that’s happening as a result of political inaction?

People are suffering. Families, students, schools, small businesses, health care providers, counties — every day, more and more Pennsylvanians are struggling to stay afloat with a state budget impasse and a federal shutdown.

Instead of passing a budget, people are being asked to do more with nothing — to take out loans to stay open, to move employees to part-time, to stretch every dollar, or to close their doors entirely. It’s not right.

I’ve shared their stories on the Senate floor — because it doesn’t seem like some of my colleagues are listening. But I’ll keep telling them, because these stories matter, and these stories are power.

This isn’t responsible governance. It’s cruelty by neglect. If you believe, like I do, that we need leaders who show up and fight for working families — not play political games while people suffer — then I need you with me.

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Thank you,

Lindsey Williams