Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to reject arbitrary spending caps on domestic spending, and pass the End Polluter Welfare Act and the ETHICS Act. Use the tools in the upper right-hand corner of this page (or, if you're on a cellphone, the bottom of this page) to find your Congressfolk's phone numbers and/or use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs.
The Coalition on Human Needs helps you tell your Congressfolk to reject arbitrary spending caps on domestic spending. Republicans made a deal with President Biden on domestic spending, but now they’re trying to go lower. They must think they’re Darth Vader! I am altering the deal; pray I do not alter it again. Republicans plan to cut Department of Transportation spending by 10% – just as Pete Buttigieg is starting to do his job! – and want to cut Labor, HHS, and Education by similar levels; these departments run programs that actually help good Americans, so let’s put a stop to these shenanigans.
Americans for Tax Fairness helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the End Polluter Welfare Act, which would (as its title suggests!) repeal all sorts of tax breaks that big oil and gas corporations get. Those tax breaks might have made sense once, while these industries were getting started, but they don’t make any sense now that they’re well-established, and they make a lot less sense when you consider that they’ve not only turbocharged climate change but they’ve also lied about it – about both doing it and knowing they were doing it. Have I mentioned I love the use of the world “welfare” in this bill’s title? Turn their words against them, that’s what I say.
Finally, Demand Progress helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the ETHICS Act, which would ban Congressfolk from trading in stocks. Now, to far too many folks addled by four decades of right-wing rule, that will seem laugh-worthy – who’s gonna pass a bill preventing themselves from investing in stocks ha ha ha snort look at me I’m so smart! These folks, despite my ministry and that of others, still do not get that Congressfolk exist to serve the American people, not enrich themselves, and we can’t trust that Congressfolk who legislate about corporate conduct but have investments in corporations would ever put their self-interest aside. We may be optimists, but we’re not fools.
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