Tell our Members of Congress and Biden: Support the Biden Administration’s supplemental funding package!
Call BOTH of your Senators.
Call ONE of the Representatives. Note: only one of these Congressmembers represents you. Find out which one here.
Contact the White House via their comment line or web form.
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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.
For your Members of Congress
I want [the Representative/the Senator] to support the Biden Administration’s proposal for additional emergency funding, and to finish the job of funding the government generally.
For President Biden
I support your $100 billion emergency funding request and your call for Congress to finish the job of funding the government.
Background
On Friday, the Biden Administration sent to Congress a request for $100 billion in emergency funding. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Shalanda Young, said to reporters:
The world is watching and the American people rightly expect their leaders to come together and deliver on these priorities, and I urge Congress to address them as part of a comprehensive, bipartisan agreement in the weeks ahead.
We don’t necessarily agree with everything in this funding package. The Hill has a detailed inventory; there are things in there we support, things we don’t, and things on which we’re divided.
On balance, we support more of this funding package than we oppose. Moreover, we support funding the important work of government—and for a superpower like the United States, helping out where we can is part of that work.
The MAGA Republican chaos-agents who are holding the government on a collision course with shutdown (time remaining: 24 days as of Wednesday, October 25) appreciate that the nation’s attention is fixed on their clown-show. We need to turn that attention away from their political theater and toward the important work that won’t get done if the government shuts down. There’s a lot domestically, but our responsibilities abroad are also included in that.
References
White House asks Congress for $100B to support Israel, Ukraine, border efforts, The Hill, 10/20/2023