May 19, 2025 - MAGA Murder Budget Gets Worse, Clears Hurdle
Plus pushing Dems to hold strong against cryptocorruption, keeping abortion clinics safe, and more!
🚨 Phonebanks running ALL AFTERNOON AND EVENING into key districts to rally support against the GOP budget today - sign up and find more ways to help here 🚨
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🚨 WHAT DID RIGHT WINGERS GET FOR LETTING RECONCILIATION THROUGH? 🚨
After the far right blocked the MAGA murder budget from advancing on Friday, last night the House Budget Committee met again and sent the bill on to the House floor 17-16. The four hardliners voted present instead of no. According to key holdout Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), in exchange they have gotten the Medicaid work requirements (which are cuts) to kick in sooner and even deeper rollbacks to clean energy - and they are still asking for more before final passage. The next stop will be the Rules Committee on Wednesday.
They’re trying to rush through this disastrous legislation, which will kick millions off their health insurance and food assistance to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and so much more, with as little debate and public attention as possible. It’s our job to make sure they don’t get away with it. Here’s how:
Phonebanking and doorknocking into key districts. Spreading the word on social media and within our networks. Getting personal about how these cuts will impact our lives. Rogan’s List has pulled together a full action guide on all the opportunities we have to push back against the MAGA murder budget. Find links to daily ways to help here – and please share with anyone wondering what to do now!
Call our own members of Congress first thing this morning to let them know the late-night vote didn’t escape anyone’s attention, and we still want them to vote no. We can find base language to use here.
The Coalition for Human Needs, Americans for Tax Fairness, Public Citizen and other groups are coming together tonight at 7:30PM ET for a virtual town hall and rally against the reconciliation bill we can sign up to attend here and then hosting a national call-in day tomorrow. (H/t Deborah Stein)
Indivisible has launched a Neighbor2Neighbor campaign to rally folks against the cuts. We can sign up and get the names of five like-minded neighbors to encourage them to take action against the MAGA bill here.
🪙 NO ENABLING TRUMP’S CRYPTO CORRUPTION 🪙
On May 8th, after a furious push by grassroots activists, Democrats blocked the Genius Act (S. 394) from moving forward in the Senate on a 48-49 vote. This was bipartisan legislation with significant Democratic buy-in that would legitimate “stablecoins,” a kind of cryptocurrency pegged to the value of other assets like the U.S. dollar. Critics like Elizabeth Warren and Americans for Financial Reform warn it would enable illicit use of crypto and tech billionaires minting their own currencies, open the door to blatant fraud and consumers getting scammed, and imperil financial stability. Furthermore, it would do nothing to touch the coins that Trump is busily using to collect bribes.
Numerous Democrats only walked away after being pressured, and backers are trying to get it back on the floor as soon as possible before the reconciliation bill arrives. Let’s reach out to our senators and tell them they need to stand with us, continue to block this bill and instead move forward on Senator Jeff Merkley’s End Crypto Corruption Act to put a stop to Trump’s crypto schemes. We can use scripts from our friend here or send this Resistbot by texting SIGN POMDOV to 50409.
🗣️ CONTACTING OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS 101 🗣️
Scripts and Resistbots offer great ways for us to tell our elected officials what’s on our minds. However, it can be more effective to express ourselves in our own words and tell our own stories, or maybe we want to go deeper. Here are some resources to help us do so. Let’s take a look:
University of California Berkeley Library Tips for Contacting Elected Officials
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Suggestions for Contacting Elected Officials
🫱🏻🫲🏿 STANDING UP TO VIOLENCE AT ABORTION CLINICS 🫱🏾🫲🏼
While deeply frightening, bombings at fertility clinics like the one in Palm Springs this weekend remain rare. At abortion clinics, sustained and consistent violence and harassment is a normal part of life – even as some of the sites that previously experienced the highest levels of intimidation have been forced to closed. In 2023 and 2024, the National Abortion Federation tracked more than 750 cases of obstruction of a clinic, nearly 300 death threats or threats of harm, and more than 600 cases of trespassing.
To make matters worse, the Trump Administration has actively enabled the terrorizing of abortion providers and clinics, pardoning dozens of extremists convicted of clinic attacks and announcing the Justice Department will not enforce the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. It is up to us to keep us safe. Let’s consider reaching out to a provider near us and volunteering to serve as a clinic escort.
📝 SOLIDARITY AGAINST UNFAIR PRACTICES BY NESTLE-OWNED COMPANY 📝
Employees at Nestle-owned Blue Bottle Coffee have been negotiating their first contract since fall 2024, pushing for guaranteed working hours and fair pay in the face of union-busting and bad-faith bargaining. They’ve now staged multiple walkouts over company attempts to unilaterally install surveillance cameras in six unionized cafes. Let’s show some solidarity and join them in writing to Blue Bottle in opposition to their unfair labor practices here.
KEEPING AN EYE ON…
Flyer non-union Starbucks with Starbucks Workers United starting TOMORROW
Organizing call against Avelo Airlines’ deportation complicity Thursday
Submit public comments against politicization of federal workforce before Friday
Solidarity Pledge Immigrants Day of Action Friday, volunteer signup here
Tesla Takedowns this weekend and every weekend, join the divestment movement here and here
Find protests near us daily via the Big List of Protests and
’sJoin the federal workers #SaveOurServices rapid response network here
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Aptly named!! MAGA murder bill. Thank you ❣️ I hope to live past this fascist regime, but I have my doubts. They have blood in Their hands, ALL of them!
Not supporting children and their families already here is the inhumane, uncivilized,
act.