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RED ALERT TIME SENSITIVE: Call senators now before Trump gets full control of budget tomorrow!! (www.pbs.org)

submitted 1 week ago by 50501chicago@lemmy.world to c/50501@piefed.social

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🚨 🚨🚨 RED ALERT TIME SENSITIVE: This is serious!

Call your senators now and tell them to vote NO on the CR. Senators will vote on this tomorrow (3/13/25) . There is no time to loose!

We need Democratic Senators to hold the line and not allow this CR to pass. It gives Trump more power on the budget and hurts Americans. The Democrats can stop it. It cannot be moved to a floor vote without 60 senators. Republicans don't have 60.

What this CR aims to do: Republicans want to give up the right to vote on budget issues for the next 6 months and instead give complete control to the president.

They are using the risk of a government shutdown to push this bill. Dont let them do this! This bill will grant Trump with king-powers to further dismantle the U.S government departments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPzO9qi-yvI https://www.govexec.com/federal-news/2025/03/house-passes-gop-funding-bill-avoid-government-shutdown/403665/

If a shutdown happens it will be blamed on democrats but this is better than the alternative . TELL YOUR SENATOR THIS! Because right now they are undecided on how to vote.

The link leads to Indivisible's call link. It will give you the number of your representative. Consider fax if you can!

You can also search here on the government site LINK

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[–] GheeButtersnaps@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Thank you for making it easy for me to get the number for my senator. Made the call in just a minute.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 5 points 1 week ago

I feel like this already went through with one republican voting against and one voting for. im looking now to see what the news said. might have been talking about the house. EDITED - this was the house vote on the news but senate seems like its tomorrow. sounds like republicans plan to recess as a threat that they will blame democrats if they don't vote for it NOW NOW NOW. That alone is enough to vote against it.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Called rep. I hate talking on the phone so this was scary!

The Rep's office said they've had many people express the same view as me, which is that a "clean" CR is also unacceptable. The government needs to be shut down if it's going to spend its time damaging the country.