Shutdown 2.1

Under Pressure

Your advocacy is working

The administration clearly plans to “quiet things down” for the next couple weeks so you stop being angry (and stop calling them). Take your beats and breaths - and then get back in the arena.

Offices to call:

(in order of priority - don’t forget to try field offices if the DC office doesn’t pick up)

1. YOUR HOUSE REP - find yours:

   1. Whether you have a GOP or Democratic Rep: Tell them to a) split the appropriations bills as the Senate has outlined and b) list your demands for the DHS bill.

      1. Remember that DHS includes FEMA, TSA, Coast Guard, etc. Just shutting the entire cabinet agency down for a year is not an option. If you want to be taken seriously, you need to make serious demands.

2. BOTH OF YOUR SENATORS - find yours:

   1. List your demands for the DHS bill (judicial warrants only, no roving patrols, no masks, body cams on, identification displayed, no children in detention, etc.).

3. SIDEQUEST: If you have reps on the House Rules Committee and they don’t end up using suspension (thus this new package has to go through this committee), call them and tell them to cut the crap and pass what the Senate sent over so we don’t shut down the other 5 cabinet agencies unnecessarily.

4. DHS Appropriations Leadership (the ones in charge of re-negotiating the DHS bill over the next two weeks):

   1. Senate

      1. Katie Britt (AL) & Chris Murphy (CT): Chair & Ranking Member of Senate Homeland Security’s Appropriations Subcommittee)

      2. Susan Collins (ME) & Patty Murray (WA): Ranking Member of Senate Appropriations At-Large)

   2. House

      1. Mark Amodei (NV) & Henry Cuellar (TX): Chair & Ranking Member of House Homeland Security’s Appropriations Subcommittee)

      2. Tom Cole (OK) & Rosa Delauro (CT): Chair & Ranking Member of House Appropriations At-Large)

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Reminder of what’s in the package itself (which is now two packages):

Including the HUGE gains Democrats already won in other 5 appropriations bill AND the DHS bill.

Be. A. Menace.

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