Indivisibles,

TONIGHT, the House is coming back in session to vote on a rules package to begin consideration of the Budget Resolution. The Budget Resolution is step 1 in passing an inclusive recovery and sets the topline funding for recovery (step 2 is passing a reconciliation bill. See our recovery resource here for more info on this process). Because they know conservative Democrats often balk at taking bold action, progressives in the House have coalesced around a strategy to move the inclusive recovery package alongside the narrow bipartisan “roads and bridges” package.

Speaker Pelosi and President Biden also support this approach, which allows Democrats to deliver on a broad range of campaign promises like a pathway to citizenship, lowering prescription drug prices, expanding Medicare, and massive investments in climate, the care economy, and affordable housing. But right now, nine conservative Democrats are obstructing this plan and threatening to vote no. 

We have a few hours left to make an impact on this vote. Call your representative and demand that they vote yes on the rules package tonight and immediately pass the budget resolution tomorrow. And now, here are your weekly to-dos:

 Your weekly to-dos 

1. Make calls now on recovery. The recovery package is moving, and progressives have led the House Democratic Caucus in insisting that we need a bold recovery package before we pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework. Nancy Pelosi agrees with their strategy, but some House moderates are threatening our success. Read our resource on the package here, then call your members of Congress.
2. Call your senators and demand they pass the For the People Act in September. The Senate missed the deadline to get everything we need from S. 1, making it critical that we pass what we can to protect our democracy. That starts with ensuring the filibuster doesn’t stand in the way. Depending on where you live, here’s what we need you to do:

• If you live in Delaware, call Senators Coons and Carper at 1-877-684-7760 and tell them you’ve heard information that they’re wavering and it's time to pick a side: democracy or the filibuster. Remind them you're paying attention. (If you want, fill out your information here and we’ll call you with a script and patch you through to their office directly.)
• If you live in West Virginia or Arizona, call Senators Manchin or Sinema and tell them you insist they stop defending the Jim Crow Filibuster and pass S. 1. Don’t let them off the hook with a wishy-washy answer. Click here to call Manchin or here to call Sinema.
• If you have any other Democratic senators, click here to call them and ask them to turn up the heat on Coons, Carper, Manchin, and Sinema. Tell them you’re proud to have heard they’re taking a stand against the filibuster and for our democracy, and ask them to pressure their colleagues to do the same.
• If you have only Republican senators or no senators (hi, our D.C. neighbors) or if you want to do more: Push your senators and representatives to make a public statement calling on Biden to get into the fight. Biden getting involved could be a game-changer, so if you can, call your representative and then your senators.

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In solidarity,
Indivisible Team