Stand with furloughed federal workers: Oppose the Trump Continuing Resolution
Call BOTH of your Senators.
Call Script
Tell your Members of Congress to hold fast!
My name is __________. I am a constituent, and my zip code is _______. I am a member of Indivisible SF.
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 in 2025 so that they can slash health care and other domestic safety net programs to fund tax cuts for billionaires. An eighth of the federal workforce has already been forced out of their jobs. These workers provided medical care for veterans, safe and clean parks for the public, and scientific and economic data for farmers and policy decision-makers, among other services for the common good.
The MAGA stealth shutdown includes illegally impounding appropriated funding, illegally freezing hundreds of billions of dollars of bipartisan funding meant for our communities, and dismantling entire federal agencies, all on the assertion that those agencies and workers were “not consistent with the President’s priorities” -- as if the president, not Congress, is empowered to set funding priorities, like a king. Now the Republican Party wants to give Trump another blank check, in the form of a Continuing Resolution to temporarily fund the government. But there is no point in Senate Democrats (or Republicans, for that matter) voting for a spending bill, short term or otherwise, that doesn’t resolve the issues of impoundments and rescissions of funds and reaffirm Constitutional checks on executive power.
Meanwhile, federal workers are bearing the brunt of the shutdown, so federal employee unions and civil service protection organizations have stepped up to support them. These programs to offer some help are available.
Federal Union Resources
Non-Union Shutdown Resources
EPA Alumni Association (support for EPA employees experiencing financial hardship caused by a shutdown)
HFLS (0% interest loans available for NYC residents)
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