As my representative, I urge you to hold fast and only support a funding deal if it protects health care, rejects Republican poison-pill financial assaults on Trans and LGBTQ+ communities, prevents the MAGA Regime from stealing from our communities, and contains clear language requiring Trump to spend the funds that Congress authorizes.

As my representative, I urge you to be far more vocal about holding your ground. Use every platform and means at your disposal to call out MAGA lies and make it clear that it is the Republicans who are shutting down our government.

Talk to your friends and family, tell them that this is a Republican shutdown.

The MAGA Regime and their Republican Party accomplices have been steadily shutting down the federal government ever since they took office so that they can slash health care and other domestic safety net programs to fund tax cuts for billionaires. Now they are trying to give Trump another blank check to fuel his dangerous and illegal power grabs with a bill that contains stealth poison-pill provisions assaulting our Trans and LGBTQ+ communities.

The MAGA gang claim Democrats are shutting down the government in order to force a trillion dollars of "new spending." Nonsense! Democrats are demanding RESTORATION of the trillion dollars that Republicans CUT from popular programs to fund their billionaire tax break.

Background

The MAGA Regime and their Republican Party accomplices have been steadily shutting down the federal government since they took office so that they can slash health care and other domestic safety net programs to fund tax cuts for billionaires.

Their Big Ugly Bill included the biggest cut to Medicaid in the program’s history, and triggered over $500 billion in cuts to Medicare beginning in January. Now, they’re refusing to act on the expiring Obamacare tax credits that millions of families rely on to afford their health insurance. If Congress fails to extend these credits, 4 million people could lose their health care coverage entirely and more than 20 million will see premiums increase by an average of 75–100%.

Their stealth shutdown includes illegally funding impoundments, dismantling of entire federal agencies, and illegally freezing hundreds of billions of dollars of bipartisan funding meant for our communities. It also includes the mass firings of federal staff -- by the end of the year 12% of all federal civilian workers are going to be out of a job – all on the assertion that those agencies and workers were, “not consistent with the President’s priorities,” -- as if the president is a king.

The Republican Party wants to give Trump another blank check to fuel his dangerous and illegal power grabs. From moving to dismantle entire agencies (Dept. of Education, FEMA, USAID) and firing huge swaths of the federal workforce that deliver crucial public services, to illegally freezing hundreds of billions in funding enacted by Congress and defying court rulings, the MAGA gang are hell-bent on transforming the federal government into a loyal regime serving Trump's corrupt whims. And under the cover of preventing a shutdown (that they themselves are engineering) they are trying to jam in a Continuing Resolution poison-pill that assaults Trans and LGBTQ+ communities.

They claim Democrats are shutting down the government in order to force a trillion dollars of "new spending." Nonsense! Democrats are demanding RESTORATION of the trillion dollars that Republicans CUT from popular programs to fund their billionaire tax cut. Democrats have put forward their own proposal that would reverse the cuts made by Republicans, permanently extend the health tax credits, and prevent Trump from stealing from our communities.

There is no point in Senate Democrats (or Republicans, for that matter) negotiating or voting for a spending bill, short term or otherwise, unless it resolves the issues of impoundments and restricts further withholding of funds, reinforces the Government Accountability Office’s authority to investigate and litigate impoundments, places checks and balances on executive power, and requires regular, accurate reporting of agency spending.

References

Stop the Trump Shutdown, Indivisible 9/29/25

Russ Vought’s Shutdown Wasn’t an Accident. It Was the Plan. Daniel Schuman & Chris Nehls, First Branch Forecast. Sep 29, 2025

Explainer: What are Democrats' and Republicans' positions in US government shutdown fight? Reuters 9/29/25

Government Shutdown, Trump and Fighting for the Working Class. Progressive Caucus chair, Greg Casar. Newsweek, 9/29/25

Tell your Members of Congress: No compromise with transphobia! IndivisibleSF. 9/23/25
Swalwell on shutdown possibility: ‘I don’t want to be a co-signee to this tyranny’, Eric Swalwell (D-CA). The Hill, 9/30/25

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