Friend,

Over the weekend, massive rainfall overwhelmed the city of Detroit and Wayne County communities―flooding highways and basements, and causing power outages.

Ecorse Creek reached a record level of 8 feet of water causing some of the worst damage in our district.

The climate crisis isn’t a theoretical concept about our future. We’re seeing the devastating impacts right now―and we must act. I am never backing down until we truly address the harms of global warming.

Unfortunately, the bipartisan infrastructure plan agreed to in the U.S. Senate doesn’t go nearly far enough to meet our climate needs. The urgency of the moment requires a robust, green infrastructure plan, or more communities throughout the U.S. will suffer the devastating impacts of the climate crisis.

Donate today to immediately address the climate crisis in the forthcoming jobs and families plan being negotiated in Congress. The cost of inaction is astronomical.

Addressing the climate crisis and environmental racism are central to why I first ran for office and why I’m a cosponsor of the THRIVE Act to invest $1 trillion per year over 10 years into our communities. This bill would create 15 million good-paying jobs and cut climate pollution in half by 2030.

I represent the most polluted zip code in Michigan, where predominantly Black communities have dealt with high rates of asthma and other respiratory conditions for decades, due to a high concentration of corporations that have polluted our air and water for profit.

Too often our frontline communities are told that we have to choose between the environment and the economy, between good paying jobs and breathing clean air, but we reject that false choice. We can have both!

Donate today to join me in our shared struggle to combat the climate crisis and environmental racism.

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Together, we must act for current and future generations.

Always serving you,

Rashida