PFAW Member,
Trump announced this week that he’d be diverting $3.6 billion from 127 military projects to put towards the construction of 175 miles of his absurd, racist border wall…
This is money that Congress explicitly decided NOT to appropriate for Trump’s wall… a usurpation of Congress's powers that Senate Republicans supported when they voted in favor of Trump’s phony emergency declaration to build his wall!
But now that enabling of Trump is coming back to bite them, because Trump’s money-grab is not just defunding vital programs – including taking $771 million from a program to counter Russian aggression – it’s defunding programs in these senators’ own states!
And that is going to make Republican senators who are up for reelection even more vulnerable, so we need to seize on this news to help build progressive momentum in some of these key Senate races!
We’ve set a goal of raising $10,000 for our Take Back the Senate Fund in the next 48 hours to respond.
We're already seeing how Trump’s continued extremist overreach could be used against vulnerable Republican senators...
An Army base in Arizona will lose $30 million. Democratic Senate candidate Mark Kelly wasted no time in calling out top-tier Republican Senate target Martha McSally for failing “her most basic responsibility to put Arizona first.” Kelly said that McSally “told Arizonans she had protected funding for Arizona military bases, and the fact is that she didn't keep her word.”
Other Republican senators who are up for reelection and voted for Trump’s sham emergency declaration include:
- Cory Gardner of Colorado, whose state will lose $8 million
- Thom Tillis of North Carolina, whose state will lose $80 million
- John Cornyn of Texas, whose state will lose $48 million
- Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, whose state will lose $11 million
- And the self-proclaimed “Grim Reaper” of the Senate, Moscow Mitch McConnell himself, whose state of Kentucky will lose a whopping $62 million…
All of these Senate races could be competitive this year – even the ones in deep red states – and some of them are definitely going to be among the most tightly contested races and our best opportunities for flipping Republican seats and changing majority control of the Senate.
We need to use opportunities like this to expose how these GOP senators continue to sell out their constituents at every turn.
Please be part of the effort to unseat them by donating to PFAW’s Take Back the Senate Fund now>>
Thanks for all you do!
-- PFAW
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