# Here’s what’s happening in Congress this week: Nothing Two-plus weeks into the government shutdown, Republicans are still unwilling to negotiate extension to ACA healthcare subsidies in the budget. OMB director Russel Vought and Republicans are using this as an opportunity to fire even more fed…

5 Calls is rolling out support for a new kind of call: **state-level calls!** We've heard a ton of feedback that 5 Calls would be even more useful to contact state-level reps for legislation moving through state government but we've never been able to only target specific states for specific legisla…

Let’s face it, ICE is lazy. That’s why they’re going after [line cooks]([link removed]), [moms]([link removed]) and [first-graders]([link removed]). These are not criminal elements in the United States, these are the people who have the least power and least protection. ICE is picking on the lowe…

This week Republicans are finalizing plans to slash anything they can from the government funding bill **_and still finding themselves $3.3T in debt_** due to extending tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. If that wasn’t insult enough, taxes will go _up_ for many of the lowest earners. Here’s j…

Join hundreds of thousands of people across the country protesting to keep our government intact by [joining a Hands Off! protest this Saturday, April 5th]([link removed]). []([link removed])Spread the word: hands off our government! Tru…

We have been diving into the call results from all of your calls to Congress this year (nearly **four million** since the inauguration if we’re counting) and something interesting caught our eye. Here’s a map showing the most popular call in each state during the month of March. Only one of tw…

Late Tuesday night Republicans passed a budget bill to the House floor that would further escalate their war on the middle class. Every* Republican voted for it. The bill contains social safety net cuts including reductions to Medicaid and SNAP, programs that subsidize healthcare and food for peo…

On Friday Elon Musk was given access to the government's payment systems, intentionally shutting off access to Medicaid payment portals across many states and accessing private information about every American. Next, he raided the Office of Personnel Management, sending out an illegal "buyout" em…

No pithy intro today, just a new topic that needs your calls immediately. ## [Prevent a Federal funding freeze]([link removed]- funding-freeze/?utm_source=5calls&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rapid- response-dont-freeze-federal-funding) Trump's acting OMB chief Matthew Vaeth has issued a mem…

Welcome to 2025 and the 119th Congress. We're still gathering district office numbers for your new reps but every House and Senate member has at least one phone number to call right now. I'm reminded of this pre-inauguration time in 2017 when we started to have a glimpse of what the first Trum…

This is the last week Congress is in session for the 118th Congress. They’ll be considering a spending bill that will hopefully be uncontroversial - even your legislators want to be home for the holidays. Although the presidential inauguration isn’t until Monday, January 20th, House and Senate…

Has it been a while? We haven’t sent an email for some time but we’ve been busy bees. You made more than a million calls to Congress this year about topics on [5calls.org]([link removed]- prepared-for-2025-with-5-calls). [Read our short page about what we expect for 2025]([link removed]- pr…

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