Shutdown 2.2

Staring down Friday the 13th

DHS runs out of funding this Friday

This includes ICE and CBP, but also Coast Guard, FEMA, TSA, etc. We also have movements on the SAVE/MEGA voter suppression issues (the deal struck with whackos Chip Roy and Anna Paulina Luna to get the other 5 appropriations bills passed) and how the ACA talks have been basically died. As I keep saying, mobilizing for Midterms is existential.

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 AND BOTH OF YOUR SENATORS - find yours:

   1. List your demands for the DHS bill (here are the ones Dems are asking for already).

   2. I also like:

      1. Rescind all or part of the OBBBA funding to ICE.

      2. Zero out or dramatically reduce CBP and ICE operational budget.

      3. Strip any jurisdiction over citizens from ICE/CBP

      4. Freeze all detention expansion (no more capital/building purchases) or any new detention contracts (IGSA, DIGSA, FRC, CDF)

      5. NO minors in immigration detention

      6. Unlimited access to legal counsel per the Sixth Amendment

      7. Free phone use for all detainees

      8. Compulsive oversight for state and local officials

      9. Enumerated paths for Bivens actions against federal agents for constitutional violations

   3. Also raise your objections to the SAVE act and your concerns about the ACA negotiations.

2. DHS Appropriations Leadership (the ones in charge of re-negotiating the DHS bill)

   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)

Other Links to inform your calls:

• Link to the judicial opinion about suspending the “presumption of regularity” of the Justice Department re: election interference.

• Link to the KFF polling I referenced in the video.

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I also shared some thoughts on how we can turn “Abolish ICE” into winning immigration messaging for Midterms (and always because fuck this shit happening ever again):

Links:

• AP’s findings about “border security” popularity.

• Navigator Research’s June 2025 and January 2026 polling on “balanced approach” vs. “strict enforcement”.

• Steve Vladeck’s write up on the 5th Circuit’s ABYSMAL immigration detention decision. Join us Live at 2PM EST Monday 2/9 to discuss!

As always…have fun being a menace!

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