Tell your Members of Congress: No Money for the Racist Wall in the 2020 Budget Bill!
Senator Dianne Feinstein
SF Office: (415) 393-0707
DC Office: (202) 224-3841
LA Office: (310) 914-7300
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San Diego Office: (619) 231-9712
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Senator Kamala Harris
SF Office: (415) 981-9369
DC Office: (202) 224-3553
Sacramento Office: (916) 448-2787
LA Office: (213) 894-5000
San Diego Office: (619) 239-3884
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi
SF Office: (415) 556-4862
DC Office: (202) 225-4965
Email Contact: https://pelosi.house.gov/contact-me/email-me
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Rep. Jackie Speier
San Mateo Office: (650) 342-0300
DC Office: (202) 225-3531
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Call Script
My name is __________. I am a constituent, and my zip code is _______. I am a member of Indivisible SF.
Please block all funds for the border wall from the Omnibus budget bill or from any Continuing Resolution.
Let me thank you for your efforts to stop border wall funding during the early 2019 Republican government shutdown fight. Your vote affirmed our values, including justice for immigrants and inclusivity.
In addition, please make absolutely sure that the National Defense Authorization Act includes the re-naming of army bases named after Confederate soldiers. If it is not, I’m asking you to make sure that the NDAA does not pass.
Background
When the Democratic House majority first came into office in early 2019, they found it fully worth fighting to keep funding for the border wall out of that year’s budget, even when it meant facing down a Republican government shutdown. That display of moral clarity and effort was one of the best things that congressional Democrats did to resist Republican oppression under Trump.
Now, again, we are facing the same issue. The Omnibus budget bill, which will fund the government for the next year, is currently stuck in negotiations. The sticking point for passage of the current Omnibus bill is once again money for the border wall.
If the Omnibus bill gets hung up, it may give way to a status quo “Continuing Resolution” (CR), and in that case, border wall funding could still be at issue. Under no circumstances should Democrats appease Trump on this matter. On top of the wasteful expense, funding this wall signals to immigrant communities that Democrats are willing to abandon them.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is also being stalled on a similarly racist issue. In this case, the sticking point is the question of renaming military bases that were previously named in “honor” of Confederate officers. Trump is threatening to veto the NDAA if it contains that provision, and McConnell is rumored to oppose passing the NDAA with this provision included because it might depress the white Republican vote in Georgia.
Democrats cannot give way on this issue either. We must stand steadfastly against official government celebrations of people who turned traitor against the United States and whose cause was to uphold the system of mass oppression and enslavement of African-Americans. In fact, it is no great loss if Congress blocks the NDAA entirely. In contrast to the Omnibus bill or a CR, there is no issue of a possible government shutdown. Regardless, if the NDAA is to pass, it must include the re-naming of bases now named for Confederate traitors. After the sweeping Black Lives Matter protests this year, this requirement has support from Democrats and even some Republicans.