Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

That meeting sounds like a shotgun wedding between a shitshow and a clusterfuck.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

You cannot love your country only when you win.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

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BJ Hive Mind: Share Your Letters & Phone Call Talking Posts Here – NO on the (unclean) Continuing Resolution

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I see that there have been some of these shared in the comments on various threads morning.

Normally, copying comments from one post to another is frowned upon, but in this case, I’l asked you to do just that!

So share your talking points on the CR here, and when you call and let us know in the comments that you called and whether you got to talk to a human, had to leave a message, or if the message box was full.

Let’s make it clear to our elected officials that we have their backs on a ‘NO’ vote on the (not even vaguely clean) Continuing Resolution.

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  1. 1.

    DFH

    I called my Rep. Eric Sorenson, and senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth.

    Live person who listened for Sorenson, left voicemail for Durbin and Duckworth, due to high volume of calls.

  3. 3.

    Baud

    It would amuse me if Dems started pointing at Republicans in Congress while whisperer “unclean!”

  5. 5.

    jackmac

    @DFH: Like you, I have the Illinois trifecta (Durbin and Duckworth as well as Rep. Lauren Underwood).  Part of me wants to yell at a Republican over the latest Trump-Musk/DOGE horrors but I’m also relieved to still have solid blue reps who (generally) have our backs.

  6. 6.

    Chief Oshkosh

    People may be tired of seeing this, but you asked for it, so:

    Here’s what I wrote yesterday, FWIW:

    Contact your Senators today and tomorrow. Tell them to not vote for the bogus “continuing resolution.” It is NOT a clean CR and will simply allow Musk and Trump to continue to break the law. Josh has an excellent primer on this:

    talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-dems-pick-up-their-sword

    Here’s the best shot at finally forcing Senate Democrats to fight against the DOGE crime spree, which is really an attack on the sovereignty of the American people. What this bill, the new continuing resolution bill, amounts to is an Elon license deal…What Slotkin is saying here is that she won’t vote yes until that stops — in other words, cuts which go against Congress’ own funding law…The issue is holding her to it.

    So if you’re Slotkin’s constituent, I strongly recommend calling her office today and thanking her for her commitment and saying you plan to hold her to it. And I would be calling every other Democratic senator too. From what I can tell, most other Democratic senators are saying something similar but also in messy/squishy ways. Same deal. What will lock them down is hearing from their constituents.

    As they say, read the whole piece. However, here is what I’ve sent my Senators:

    Dear Senator McSenatorFace,

    1. I do not think that the Continuing Resolution working its way through the House is a “clean” CR. I think that if Democrats vote for it and it passes, it will reward and encourage the lawless behavior of Trump and Musk and that they will continue to usurp the powers of Congress.

    2. I therefore think that you should vote against this CR unless it can be heavily amended to include iron-clad assurances to the effect of: No deal unless Trump is forced to re-swear that he will quit breaking the law AND Musk and DOGE must be removed from any role in the federal government. Since I don’t think any such assurances are possible, even if such amendments are added to the CR, I think you should vote against this CR.

    3. Regardless of my input, I request a response from you telling me specifically what your intentions are with regards to this CR as it is understood as of today.

    Thank you for your time and consideration,

    Constituent McConstituentFace

  7. 7.

    The Audacity of Krope

    I don’t have anything prior to copy over, but it does occur to me that Congressional Democrats shouldn’t support Congress ceding further power to the executive. Hello, they should be clawing back the last century and a half of ceded powers.

  8. 8.

    TBone

    @Baud: oh, that is going in my email today.  I’m gonna use a pointing finger emoji at Fettermanchinema and bold the UNCLEAN!

  9. 9.

    RaflW

    Just had to leave messages at Sen.s Klobuchar and Smith’s DC offices, no live answer (maybe calling at lunchtime isn’t strategic?).

    In both calls I referenced Vance telling the GOP caucus that the WH will not follow the spending required by the CR. I called the passage of the budget a “pantomime” and that it is essential for all Democrats to vote no, to indicate Dems know the whole process is illegitimate.

    Klobuchar is such a drip (she voted yes on yet another Cabinet member yesterday, when show knows how much that angers much of her MN base) that I don’t trust her to be strong here. Alas.

  10. 10.

    John S.

    Got through to both my Senators!

    I thanked Sen. Cantwell for voting against Trump’s pick for Labor. She has voted for other nominees, so I expressed appreciation for her turnaround. Unfortunately, she has no public position on the CR and even the staffer seemed confused as to why that was. I told them on no uncertain terms that a vote for this CR would be political suicide, and that WA Democrats would remember.

    I also thanked Sen. Murray for standing strong against Trump’s picks. She has been excellent on that front with very little exception (and maybe talked some sense into Sen. Cantwell). She has a very public position on the CR that she just announced this morning. She is introducing competing legislation for a clean CR that would extend things a month, which will certainly go nowhere, but at least it’s something. And she will not vote for a dirty CR.

  13. 13.

    Sure Lurkalot

    I called and left messages to both of my senators (Bennet & Hickenlooper). Both voted for the empty suit Rubio and the oil & gas entrepreneur slash climate change denier Chris Wright. Hickenlooper also voted for Scott Bessent, the asshat and apparent comedian who recently opined that America was not about access to cheap goods.

    I have no idea where either of them stand on the CR but I after urging them to vote NO, I added that Coloradans who elected them didn’t vote for them to abdicate their power.

  14. 14.

    RaflW

    Ilhan Omar’s D.C. voicemail is full. Was able to leave a message at her district office. I just read on Bsky that the CR has a provision snuck in which would remove Congress’s ability to undo Trump’s “emergency” declaration that allows him to impose tariffs. Of course the House wouldn’t unto that, but the point I made was that Republicans sneaking this in means on its face it isn’t a “clean” CR.

    I doubt she’d vote yes anyway, but supporting our NO votes matters, too.

    eta: I called Klobuchar’s office again since the tariff sneak was news, and reached a staffer and I outlined that issue. He said he’d “let the Senator know” which I assume is a hashmark on the pad, but that’s to be expected.

  15. 15.

    John S.

    Suggested script from 5calls.org:

    Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [CITY].

    I’m calling to demand that [SENATOR] vote against any Continuing Resolution that doesn’t include enforceable guardrails for DOGE. Elon Musk and his team of computer hackers have no legal jurisdiction over how our government spends money. Congress must stop them and take back their constitutional power of the purse.

    Thank you for your time and consideration.

  17. 17.

    jowriter

    Called my senators yesterday (Schumer and Gillibrand) re the unlawful detention of the Columbia student and the CR.  Will try again today but it has been impossible to reach Schumer by phone at either my local office or DC.  Told Gillibrand’s staffer that Senator Schumer should direct his people to answer the phone occasionally and maybe she could inform them that constituents can’t reach him.  Called my GOP congresscritter Lawler about his cowardice and his useless ambition to be NYS governor.  It’s cleansing to express my distate for that one, though I’m sure they dump my calls along with the others from Democrats.  Never have gotten a callback.

  18. 18.

    RaflW

    Also, too: Watergirl thank you for this thread. It helps me know that I’m taking collective action, and that helps with some of the feelings of helplessness around [waives broadly but sadly] all this.

  19. 19.

    rebelsdad

    Spoke to a staffer in Bilirakis’ DC office and left voicemails with Scott and Moody. I hit the same message with all three- no one voted for Elon or DOGE, and their cuts to NWS, NOAA, and others have me really worried about this upcoming hurricane season here in Florida. Hopefully that will strike a chord (not A minor, I hope) with all three of them.

  22. 22.

    Tandem

    1. I called Mark Warner’s Capitol Hill office and spoke with a real person.  I urged the Senator to vote “no” on any CR or so-called “clean CR,” because this was our chance to slow, if not stop, the Trump-Musk lawless gutting of government.  she said she’d see that the Senator got my message.  She did not ask my name or whether I was a constituent, and in truth, she sounded barely alive and completely uninterested.  I’m hoping that was due to the number of “vote no” calls she had had to take.
  23. 23.

    John S.

    @rebelsdad:

    I’m sure after they kill FEMA and toss disasters back to the states, everything will be fine in Florida. Their fiscal responsibility and prudence with regard to natural disasters is evident by their awesome insurance market. /s

  25. 25.

    tobie

    FWIW here’s my letter template that I tweak for my rep and my mother’s rep.

    Dear Republican Ratfucker,

    Please vote “no” on the continuing resolution. The measure neither shrinks the deficit nor expands the GDP. On the contrary it will lead to economic contraction and eviscerate the middle class.

    The bill

    =>takes $28 billion from the PACT Act that provides healthcare to veterans exposed to Agent Orange while serving the nation

    =>cuts vital funding for the NIH for research on cancer, Alzheimers, diabetes, ALS and heart disease. NIH research is what has made the biotech industry in the US the global leader.

    =>slashes funding for USDA inspectors who make sure our food is safe to eat

    =>cuts rent subsidies for low-income Americans who would otherwise find themselves on the street

    =>removes funding for non-nuclear proliferation programs

    =>cuts disaster relief for states like California and allows the executive branch to play favorites with infrastructure spending, thereby calling into question if we are still the United States.

    =>hollows out the Improundment and Anti-Recision acts. (Don’t you want to defend Article I?)

    I fail to see how it benefits the country to cut these programs and power for the sake of a large tax cut to people who do not need it. Please vote no on this resolution. It gambles with the economic health of the country.

  26. 26.

    Geminid .

    @DFH: I noticed that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee left Rep.Sorenson of their “Frontline” list of endangered Democratic Represenatives. He and fellow Illinois Democrat Nikki Budzinski were on the 2024 list but apparently did well enough not to be included this time.

    Next year’s list has 26 Democrats on it including Eugene Vindman, who represents the Virginia 7th CD where I live. Ed. Vindman replaced Abigail Spanberger who’s running for Governor this year.

  27. 27.

    TBone

    Dear Senator Fetterman:

    I have been your constituent and staunch supporter since you were our PA Lt. Governor.  I bit my tongue as you voted for Trump’s nincompoop Cabinet nominees.

    But today I read that you will vote “Yes” on the Rethuglican Continuing Resolution being put forth.

    UNCLEAN! 🫵

    I will here quote Wonkette’s
    Dr. Zoom, with whom I vehemently agree:

    “Here’s why this bill is so awful: While it would fund the government through the end of the fiscal year and get more government shutdowns off the table, it would also hand far more discretion over federal spending to Donald Trump, essentially handing over Congress’s power of the purse to a criminal. The hell with that.”

    I have more to say about your recent actions, but for today, I wanted to keep my message short and acerbic.  So, in concurrence with the good Doctor, I say

    FUCK ALL THAT.

    I hope you read this.

    Sincerely,
    TBone

  28. 28.

    ewrunning

    I just called and left messages for both my senators, Murray and Cantwell. Cantwell’s website refers to “experiencing high call volumes” and urged constituents to send an email instead. However, I’ve still had no answer to the letter I faxed them at the beginning of last week, so I went with the call. First try for Cantwell was a busy signal, but on the second I got into the voice mail.

    My messages were, to Murray, thanks for your proposal for a genuinely clean four week CR (along with Rep. DeLauro). Please continue to do everything possible to block the phony “clean CR” coming out of the House, should the Republicans manage to pass it, including denying cloture (what the press calls a filibuster). Absolutely no point in allowing this lawless administration more leeway to impound funds and permit Musk’s illegal rampage through our federal government programs and agencies. To Cantwell, please support Senator Murray’s proposed four week clean CR, but do everything possible to block the House GOP’s bogus “CR” if it passes and comes before the Senate, for the same reasons mentioned above

  29. 29.

    BarcaChicago

    Duckworth office: Wouldn’t state if YES or NO. I said my spiel and gave my zip code.

    Durbin: Instructed to call later due to high volume of calls.

    Rep. Schakowsky: She is a NO. Thanked her.

    I’ll keep calling Durbin and Duckworth

     

    And yes, I was thinking why not call Slotkin and others and give an appropriate zip code…

  31. 31.

    John S.

    @ewrunning:

    I find that calling their local offices in the morning is the best way to get through to a staffer. I’ve never been able to get a hold of anyone at either of their DC offices.

  32. 32.

    DFH

    @jackmac:  I’m actually proud of IL now and glad to live here in these times. Pritzker is great, and thank god Chicago counters the rustic 100% Amurkin 0% socialist farmers where I live.  Man are they going to get it in the shorts.  Heads in the sand.

    Sorenson almost didn’t get re-elected. A judge ran against him and was doing well until oppo advertising found audio of the judge explaining how god told him how to rule on some cases, a voice that came into his head while he was prone on the floor with arms out. Voters said, eh, we’ll take the gay guy! Judge’s outdoor ads were all “one of us” – iow Sorenson was not one of them/us. Jeebus I’m tired of people.

  33. 33.

    ewrunning

    @John S.: Yes, I’ve tried both but have only been getting voice mail recently. I hope that’s a reflection of a high volume of calls giving them the same kind of message.

  34. 34.

    WTFGhost

    @Baud: I preferred the one comment, long ago, suggesting a full Klingon casting out “they have no honor!”

    @John S.: That’s some good writing. It establishes you’re a constituent, succinctly shows you know why you’re writing,  and demands action based upon that knowledge. (Um. I say this, both to state the obvious (thereby confusing people), and, because it shows how you could modify the script.)

  35. 35.

    Melancholy Jaques

    Sent this to Senators Padilla & Schiff.

    Please vote “no” on the Continuing Resolution. We are in the midst of a constitutional crisis. This CR would confirm and approve of the lawlessness of Trump, Musk, and their coterie of corruption. There has been far too much acquiescence and passiveness. The American people will not even be aware of all that is happening unless Democrats make a major issue of it.

    All Democratic elected official must oppose Trump, Musk, and the Republicans on every major issue – and do so loudly and proudly – until their destruction of our constitutional order is stopped. Paraphrasing John Lewis, If not you, then who? If not now, then when?

    Thank you.

  37. 37.

    John S.

    @WTFGhost:

    Yup, I like what the folks over at 5calls.org are doing. Short, sweet and direct with setting a clear expectation is the way to go.

  38. 38.

    zhena gogolia

    @Melancholy Jaques: I thought that was Hillel

    Wikipedia:

    Hillel (Hebrew: הִלֵּל Hīllēl; variously called Hillel the Elder or Hillel the Babylonian; died c. 10 CE) was a Jewish religious leader, sage and scholar associated with the development of the Mishnah and the Talmud and the founder of the House of Hillel school of tannaim. He was active during the end of the first century BCE and the beginning of the first century CE.

    He is popularly known as the author of three sayings:

    “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And being for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”
    “That which is hateful to you, do not do unto your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.”
    “Be of the disciples of Aaron, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving mankind and drawing them close to the Torah.”

  40. 40.

    jackmac

    @DFH: I’ve read a fair amount about Sorensen — he’s very solid — and that judge he ran against was C R A Z Y.   Underwood also faced a Republican right wing loon in 2024 and got 55 percent of the vote.  I actually talked that opponent last week at a community business event and it seems he wants to run against her again.  Okay, bring it on.

  41. 41.

    williamrd

    text of email I sent to Josh at Talking Points Memo, who is keeping a tally of Democratic Senators’ stances.

    A nice aide answered when I dialed Senator Padilla’s office in Los Angeles. I asked her about Padilla’s voting intentions regarding Speaker Johnson’s CR proposal. She replied she had not been briefed as to what Padilla’s position was, and asked for my views. I told her a government shutdown, while bad, wasn’t the worse case scenario (that would be Elon’s continuing rampage), and that  I would be disappointed if Padilla was one of the Democratic Senators helping to overcome the 60 filibuster barrier. She said she would pass message on. I asked when I (and she) might have an answer; she said a decision would be released via a website press release. 

  43. 43.

    Geminid .

    @jackmac: Eric Sorenson was one of a handful of House Democrats first elected in 2022 with no prior experience in elective office. Most of the other 31 had been mayors or state legislators before running for Congress. I think Jared Moskowitz was a county supervisor in a populous Florida County.

    Maxwell Frost, another Florida freshman, had headed a community advocacy group before winning the Orlando-based district Val Demings left in order to run for the Senate.

    Eric Sorenson was a TV weatherman before winning his northwest Illionois district in 2022. Jonathan(?) Jackson ran a Chico-based NGO prior to running for Congress in 2022.

    A third Illinois Class of 2022 member, Nikki Budzinski also had never held public office before she ran in the redrawn central Illinois 13th CD. But Budzinski had been working in politics one way or another ever since she interned for Richard Gephart and Senator Paul Simon while a student at the University of Illinois-Champaign. Budzinski’s more notable work included a key role in Jay Pritzker’s 2018 campaign for governor and in his subsequent administration.

  44. 44.

    HorrifiedDaily

    Cantwell (WA) – phone lines are too busy to get through – left email urging NO vote, or at least to make position clear.

  45. 45.

    Geminid .

    @jackmac: I remember that ice cream mogul who ran against Lauren Underwood in 2022, Mr. Oberwies. The RCCC had Oberweis listed under its “Young Guns” program. The guy was 70 years old!

  46. 46.

    JaySinWA

    I called the Everett offices of Murray and Cantwell.

    Murray’s office went to voicemail, stating that staff was at a local event. I left a message supporting her call for a clean CR and opposing the Republican CR.

    I got a live staffer at Cantwell’s office and encouraged her to vote against the Republican CR and to support Murray’s clean CR.

  47. 47.

    John S.

    @JaySinWA:

    I usually have the most luck with their Seattle office for some reason. Calls to their other offices (Tacoma, Spokane, etc.) almost always go to VM.

  48. 48.

    XeckyGilchrist

    Wrote to my Senators, Murray and Cantwell, and asked that they vote No on any budget / CR that doesn’t follow Constitutional guidelines for who gets to appropriate and spend money, and to support financing agencies that have been illegally sabotaged.

  50. 50.

    TooManyJens

    I talked to someone in Duckworth’s office and had to send an email to Durbin (nobody picking up, no option to leave a voice mail). I said the current CR lets Elon Musk keep the keys to the government and they need to hold the line even though we all know the Republicans will lie and blame them for a shutdown. I also mentioned the names of a few of the senators who have already stated they’ll vote no–nothing wrong with trying a little peer pressure.

    Budzinski has already posted on FB that she’s a no.

  51. 51.

    Raoul Paste

    I called my Republican congressman and told them that his campaign flyer said that constituents should call his office with any federal issues.

    I mentioned that I knew the continuing resolution was a sham, urged him to vote No, and said that if my Medicare or Social Security were cut, I indeed would be calling his office because there wouldn’t be any SS workers to take my call.

  52. 52.

    JaySinWA

    @ewrunning:My general reaction is Musk’s a drug-addled idiot at this point, so there’s little reason to think a shutdown will prove beneficial to his plans.

    I’m pretty sure he see’s it as far more efficient than his sledge hammer salami tactics, and lets him off the hook for consequences. His shutdown process will end up being more destructive in the long run, and will probably continue with an official shutdown, but there will be even less oversight to worry about.

  53. 53.

    SC54HI

    Hoping that my Senators (Hirono & Schatz) are clear NOs on the CR but haven’t seen any statements from them. Called their local offices & left voicemails. Also called my rep, Ed Case (D-Blue Dog DINO) at his local office number. Implored him to vote NO on the CR as well but who knows what he will do.

  54. 54.

    beckya57

    I called both senators last night, after hours.  I always call their local offices and leave VMs.  I’ve seen a few reports of full VM boxes, but didn’t have a problem.  Might want to try calling local offices if you’re having trouble getting through to the DC ones.  Incidentally, my senior senator, Murray, has introduced a different (much better) CR, so I told them I supported that.

  57. 57.

    beckya57

    @John S.: I always get VM at their local offices, but that’s because I call after hours (more convenient for me).  Never have had a problem with leaving a message.

  59. 59.

    RaflW

    @DFH: “100% Amurkin 0% socialist farmers” are in the process of FAFOing what happens when Heritage freaks / Project 2025 true believers get in control of things like, ohh, “Agriculture Policy.”

    We’ll hear the screams over the cuts to their socialism soon.

  60. 60.

    RaflW

    @tobie: Thanks! After calling my MN triad this morning, I used my geographic privilege to email Hickenlooper and Bennet a little bit ago using your template with a few very minor tweaks (e.g. took out California ref).

    I guess the GOP House is now officially “daring the Senate to accept it.”

  61. 61.

    ewrunning

    @JaySinWA:  Less oversight than none, which is what he has currently from the Congressional GOP majority? But hey, they can always call him and plead for a special exception for their case.

  62. 62.

    Satanley (aka weasel)

    I started off with something I thought was pretty straight forward…

    “Please vote no on the continuing resolution to fund the government. Even if this were a clean CR, I’d be against it but it is loaded with poison pills no decent Democrat could support. On top of that, as long as Elon Musk continues to illegally decide what money gets spent and on what, voting for any budget is a farce. Please help stop the madness and vote no on the CR.”

    But I’ve simplified to…

    “Do not fund an illegal government. Musk must go!”

  63. 63.

    Another Scott

    The latest from RollCall.com:

    Democratic objections to the bill will weigh more heavily in the Senate, where Republicans lack the votes needed to pass the measure on their own. They hold only 53 seats, while 60 votes are required for passage. And Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has signaled his opposition to the measure.

    That defection means GOP leaders would need at least eight Democrats to join them to push the CR over the finish line. Most Democratic senators had taken a “wait and see” stance on the bill as they awaited the House vote.

    Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said he would bring the House’s bill to the floor ahead of the Friday deadline, and said Democrats would be to blame for a shutdown if they do not provide the votes needed to keep the lights on.

    “It is on them if this happens,” Thune said. “There is a funding vehicle that is available coming over from the House of Representatives.”

    Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., said his side would reserve judgment until the House acts.

    The intent, obviously, is to jam Democrats and make them look like the bad guys. When it’s the GQP that is burning the place down.

    There’s no magic solution, of course, short of winning elections and throwing the monsters out. Until then, somehow keeping the party unified and making sure the country knows that the GQP is destroying everything is seemingly part of the path out of this mess.

    47 bending GQP arms to get a “win” on this should figure into the Democratic calculus in the Senate. Anything that Democrats can use to show the normies that 47 is a weak, tiny handed, petulant, loooser who is determined to break things lessens his power.

    We’ll see what happens.

    Best wishes,
    Scott.

  65. 65.

    Msb

    Called my useless R rep. Voicemail full in DC. Voicemail open in local office.

    “My” Sens are Rs, too.

  66. 66.

    WaterGirl

    @Msb: It’s still really important that they hear from people like us who think they are wrong.  Otherwise they can just say that all their constituents want this.

  67. 67.

    Ariobarzanes

    As a resident of DC, I am profoundly frustrated at the fact that I of course have no representative in the Senate.

    I have been emailing senators for the past hour or so, though I have a feeling that doing so won’t accomplish much.

  68. 68.

    Allen Henderson

    Here’s what I sent my Senators yesterday (Padilla and Schiff):

    I’m writing to ask you, emphatically, to vote NO on the Continuing Resolution that Republicans may be able to advance to the Senate. This bill is not a “clean” extension of Biden-era budgets, and quite clearly sacrifices the power of the purse to the Executive branch.

    More generally, here is how I think this will play out: Congressional Republicans will give up their Constitutional prerogative to designate how money is to be spent with the understanding that they will get clawbacks. In other words, the budget now becomes a means to force “blue state” compliance by this Administration. So Republicans give up control in the hopes that their “team” will suffer less than the other “team,” thus facilitating the consolidation of power under Gingrich’s dream of a “permanent Republican majority.”

    Please don’t enable this.

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