Moments ago, the United States House of Representatives passed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan for COVID relief.

Once President Biden signs the bill into law, the American people will get more desperately needed help.

And the federal government will, at last, provide the scale of resources needed to control the pandemic and start rebuilding our economy.

This legislation is historic in many ways. One of those ways is a disgrace:

Not a single Republican — not one of the 211 Republicans in the House, not one of the 50 Republicans in the Senate — voted for this desperately needed legislation.

In the face of a pandemic that has caused incalculable suffering, every single Republican in Congress chose petty, spiteful, pointless partisanship over helping the American people.

Join Public Citizen in sending this message to House and Senate Republicans:

Shame on you. The American people have been suffering through this pandemic for over a year. More than half a million lives have been lost. Millions of families may never recover financially. Countless small businesses have been sacrificed. In short, this is the gravest threat our country has faced in generations. And at this crucial moment you have responded with a hollow performance of rank partisanship. Your failure will go down in history as a disgrace.

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Thanks for taking action.

For progress,

- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen

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