John, today’s a really big f-ing day.
This morning, President Biden put out a framework for his climate and jobs package after months of negotiations (spoiler alert: it's a mixed bag, the climate provisions could be pretty good, but a lot of important stuff got cut), and Pelosi called for a vote on the ExxonMobil plan, also known as “BIF.”
If you've been following along, you know what that means. If you haven't, welcome (!) — it's one of the moments we've been building towards all damn year.
Can you join our next mass call tonight at 8pm ET/5pm PT to hear the latest from Sunrise about what's happening with the climate and jobs package, the future of the Civilian Climate Corps, and the rest of our priorities? The stakes of this moment can't be understated: it's mass human suffering, or mass human survival:
Things are changing by the minute in D.C., where Sunrisers and hunger strikers have been keeping the pressure up on Biden and Democrats to get this done — *for us*, not Joe Manchin or his donors.
We’re tired. We shouldn’t have to fight this hard just to LIVE, but we’ve come too far to give up our leverage now.
We know this whole process has been confusing from the start. So during big moments like this one, we like to take a step back to make sense of what’s happening — and that’s exactly what we plan to do tonight, which is why we’re asking:
In solidarity,
Deirdre, Sunrise