Fellow Conservative,

I was just making sure you saw the email I sent you regarding the omnibus spending bill that was passed by Congress last week. Washington has a massive spending problem and I know sometimes it feels like an uphill battle. I just wanted to send you another email so you know conservatives are GAINING GROUND. Thank you so much for your continued fight in the conservative movement. It's an honor to serve alongside you!

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From: Jessica Anderson <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 8:05 AM
Subject: Saturday Summary: Thank the members that stood with you!
Fellow Conservative,
Congress moved an omnibus through both chambers, but you were defended by a strong group of conservative senators and representatives. Here are the updates for this week:
Congress Passes an Omnibus
With government funding slated to run out this past Friday, the House and Senate scrambled to pass a bill to keep the lights on and avoid a shutdown of Congress’s own making.. We have been warning conservatives for months that an omnibus appropriations bill was likely and would be bad - unfortunately, we were right.

Written out of view of Americans and the rest of Congress, an exclusive group of leaders from both parties dumped a bill almost 3,000 pages long and costing an eye-popping $1.5 trillion taxpayer dollars on the House floor with less than 24 hours for members to read the bill before the vote.

Heritage Action key voted against the legislation, urging lawmakers to vote no. <[link removed]>

The bill failed to rescind Biden’s unconstitutional vaccine mandates <[link removed]> that have ousted our service members and fired our healthcare workers, advanced Biden’s climate policies, and included over $4 billion dollars worth of earmarks
so lawmakers could bring their pet projects <[link removed]> to fruition in their home states. Unrelated to government funding, the bill also jammed a version of the Violence Against Women Act which threatens American values such as our Second Amendment rights and fails to protect women from predators who may identify as a woman and gain access to facilities and programs alongside battered women. The bill even gives the Left exactly what they want by dramatically increasing the IRS’s budget <[link removed]> to almost $13 billion, the same agency that under the last Democrat president targeted conservative Americans.

Oh yeah, and with energy prices at record highs, the omnibus even pushed an earmark tackling racism in our energy system. <[link removed]> You can’t make this stuff up.

Lots of Republican members who voted yes will point to the national security funding, but the way Speaker Pelosi wrote the rules for this vote ensured that a vote for the national security provisions was also a vote for the whole bill. Read our key vote <[link removed]> to see how she did this.

It’s never been more clear to Americans that Washington is out of touch and not representing hard working Americans. This trillion dollars plus spending package comes at a time when Americans are reeling from Biden’s failed economic policies that have stuck us with record inflation and gas that tops well over $4 a gallon.

Even though this bill passed, many conservative senators and representatives heard your voice and stood up for you. More than half of GOP senators stood with you!

Be sure to thank them!

Check the links below to see how your elected officials voted.

>>> Click here to see how your Representative voted <[link removed]>

>>> Click here to see how your Senator voted <[link removed]>
>>> Watch the latest “On Air with Heritage Action” podcast discussing President Biden’s agenda for energy dependence <[link removed]>
- Florida


On Tuesday, the Florida legislature secured a huge win in the passage of the Parental Rights in Education Bill. <[link removed]> Children in kindergarten through third grade will now be protected from discussions in class regarding sexual orientation or gender identity. It’s hard to fathom that states need to pass legislation barring teachers from talking to five and six year olds about their sexual orientation or gender, but that’s where we are in today’s society. <[link removed]>


- South Dakota


S.B. 122, banning “Zuck bucks" in our elections <[link removed]> was passed by the South Dakota House of Representatives this week. Now that it has passed both chambers, it will head to Governor Noem’s desk to be signed into law. This bill increases fairness in elections by preventing private individuals and organizations from funding South Dakota’s election operations and keeps elections nonpartisan and funded by South Dakotans.


- Georgia


The Georgia House of Representatives passed the Protect Students First Act, HB 1084, this week. This bill will protect students from state-sanctioned racial discrimination. The Protect Students First Act is a huge step to protect Georgia’s schools from being reshaped and transformed through the teaching of critical race theory.


If you live in Florida, South Dakota, or Georgia – call your elected officials and tell them thank you for supporting these bills. These are crucial steps in the right direction.


Thank you for all of your continued hard work and support. Together, we are winning victories across the country and holding our elected representatives accountable for their votes.

We are proud to serve alongside you!

Jessica Anderson and the Heritage Action team
Join the fight to advance the conservative agenda.

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