Tell your Members of Congress: No Funds for Trumpism!
Call BOTH of your Senators.
Call ONE of the Representatives. Note: only one of these Congressmembers represents you. Find out which one here.
Call Script
My name is __________. I am a constituent, and my zip code is _______. I am a member of Indivisible SF.
We demand that you refuse to vote for – and do everything you can to block – funding for Trumpism. Voting to fund the MAGA Regime violates your oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. You must oppose the MAGA Regime's unconstitutional power-grabs with actions on the floor of Congress – not just words spoken at press conferences.
Even if it means a government shutdown.
Resist Trump's unconstitutional power-grabs.
Reject Republican poison pills that incite misogyny, racism, bigotry, and violence.
Refuse to fund Trumpism!
No funds for Illegal ICE kidnappings, international renditions, or domestic concentration-camps.
No funds for military occupation of Blue cities
No funds for Israel's war on Gaza or annexation.
No funds for enforcing MAGA ideologies or suppressing freedom of thought and speech.
Restore funds cut from Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare and all other forms of healthcare.
Restore funds for Inspectors General, government watchdogs, and anti-corruption oversight.
Background
We accuse Trump and the MAGA Regime of seizing authoritarian powers for selfish and partisan purposes. Recent examples include:
Refusing to spend money appropriated by Congress.
Using recission to take back money already appropriated.
Illegally firing heads of independent agencies.
Firing civil servants without cause.
Unilaterally stripping union rights from federal employees.
Dismantling federal agencies for partisan political purposes.
Appointing incompetent sycophants and toadies to run government agencies.
Illegally imposing military occupation on Blue cities.
Using the FBI to "investigate" those who do not bow down.
Using the presidency and state-power to reward friends, punish enemies, enrich themselves.
Trump, the MAGA Regime, and authoritarian governments in general, are all deeply corrupt. As Senator Jon Ossof (D-GA) recently put it:
“Corruption is why they just defunded nursing homes to cut taxes for the rich. Corruption is why you pay a fortune for prescriptions. Corruption is why your insurance claim keeps getting denied. Corruption is why hedge funds get to buy up all the houses in your neighborhood, driving you out of the market, and then your corporate landlord ignores your calls during a gas leak. Corruption is why that ambulance costs $3,000 after you just had to get your choking toddler to the hospital. So Trump promised to attack a broken system. I get it. Ripe target. But here’s the thing. He’s a crook. And a con man. And he wants to be a king. Yes, the system really is rigged, but Trump’s not unrigging it. He’s re-rigging it for himself.”
Democratic Party leaders like Schumer and Jeffries wring their hands and bemoan that they are powerless to defend us because the Republicans control the White House, both chambers of Congress, and the Supreme Court. Not so!
Democrats still have some power over the purse. If Democrats hold firm, they can still block passage of the appropriation bills needed to fund the federal government. And at the very minimum they can force Republicans to vote on the record as they slash, cut, destroy – and self-enrich – so we can hold them accountable in 2026.
In a very real sense, Democrats who vote for bills or CRs to fund the MAGA Regime violate their oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. They must stop funding a government that is being twisted into a tool for political oppression, illegal seizure of power, and private enrichment by Trump and his cronies.
Last March, Schumer (D-NY) led 10 Democratic senators to vote for a CR to fund the Trump government that included billions of cuts to social spending. Had he not done so, there would have been a shutdown. A shutdown would have created a serious economic and political crisis. One that Democrats could have used to mobilize public opinion against the MAGA Regime. They didn't. So the Trump juggernaut continues to wreck, trample, and corrupt unchecked and un-deterred.
The case for a shutdown is this: A shutdown is an attentional event. It’s an effort to turn the diffuse crisis of Trump’s corrupting of the government into an acute crisis that the media, that the public, will actually pay attention to.
References
Stop Acting Like This Is Normal, Ezra Klein, NY Times, 9/7/25
Potential Outcomes If Congress Misses the Federal Funding Deadline, National Law Review, 9/3/25
Should Democrats Shut Down the Government? Robert Reich, Substack. 9/9/25
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