Urgent Call to Action: Call Your Senators ASAP! (Monday June 30th, 3:30 PM Eastern Time)
The Senate is conducting its final vote on the “Big Beautiful Bill” as I type this, and we need to do what we can to let our lawmakers know that we are not okay with this bill!
The email I received from Indivisible on Thursday explains it best:
Senate Republicans want to vote on their Medicaid-slashing, billionaire-enriching reconciliation bill [today]...and that means “vote-a-rama” -- when senators can propose endless changes that their colleagues then need to vote on.
If all Republicans stick together, Democrats simply don’t have the numbers to stop the bill from passing; that’s why the GOP is using reconciliation in the first place. But that doesn’t mean Senate Democrats are powerless.
Your Democratic senators can make voting on this bill slower, more divisive, and more politically damaging than any vote these Republicans have ever taken. In fact, that’s what this moment demands of them and what we expect.
As a reminder, this bill will:
Make huge cuts to Medicaid and create new work requirements that affect who can qualify
Triple the budget for ICE
Block states’ abilities to regulate AI
Give trillions of dollars in tax cuts to the wealthy
Increase the Pentagon’s budget by $150 billion
And much, much more
So, what can you do?
First: Call or Write Your Senator
Here are two links to 5 Calls, a website that provides easy-to-follow scripts for calling your lawmakers.
Script Specifically About Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid
Script for General Opposition to the "Big Beautiful Bill"
If you are not comfortable calling your Senators, use this tool to send them an email.
If your Senator is a Republican, please please please call them and let them know how unhappy you are that your elected representative is not serving in the best interests of you and your fellow constituents. If your Senator is a Democrat, please urge them to do everything they possibly can to slow the voting process.
Second: Suggest Amendments to the Bill
Part of the "vote-a-rama" is that Senators can propose whatever amendments they want, from actual serious legislation, to random suggestions made simply for the sake of forcing proceedings to take longer. Use this tool from Indivisible to suggest amendments to Senate Democrats. My suggestion was that I think it would be fun if Senators had to wear wigs like the British parliament does. Will this actually get brought up as an amendment? I have no idea! But it gave me something to giggle about.
Third: Spread the Word!
It is vital that as many people as possible communicate with their Senators about this. We cannot let this bill get passed as-is. We cannot lie down and let the Republicans and Trump get this victory without a fight. So please: reblog this post! Share these tools with your friends and family, and encourage them to contact their Senators as soon as they can!
According to Politico, the "vote-a-rama" is expected to last into Tuesday morning. So, we still have some time to make this happen, but we need to move quickly. Please do what you can!
