KEEP AN EYE ON THE BUDGET AND IMPEACHMENT
ACTION ONE: CALL YOUR SENATORS
SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR WYDEN AND MERKLEY:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…
I am worried Trump will sabotage the budget vote and shut down the government to stop the impeachment process. I ask the Senator to:
- Make sure there are no cuts to our safety net in the budget;
- Make sure there are no additional funds for CBP or ICE in the budget;
- Keep supporting the impeachment process.
CALL SENATOR MERKLEY
CALL SENATOR WYDEN
ACTION TWO: CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS
Not sure who your U.S. Representative is? Find out here.
SAMPLE SCRIPTS FOR REPRESENTATIVES:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…
For all but Walden: I am worried Trump will sabotage the budget vote and shut down the government to stop the impeachment process. I ask the Representative to:
- Make sure there are no cuts to our safety net in the budget;
- Make sure there are no additional funds for CBP or ICE in the budget;
- Keep supporting the impeachment process.
For Walden: I am worried Trump will sabotage the budget vote and shut down the government to stop the impeachment process. I ask the Representative to:
- Make sure there are no cuts to our safety net in the budget;
- Make sure there are no additional funds for CBP or ICE in the budget;
- Put country over party and support the impeachment process.
CALL SUZANNE BONAMICI (OR-01)
CALL GREG WALDEN (OR-02)
CALL BLUMENAUER (OR-03)
CALL PETER DEFAZIO (OR-04)
CALL KURT SCHRADER (OR-05)
ACTION THREE: HELP REGISTER VOTERS
Indivisible Oregon is organizing letter-writing parties using Swing Left tools to contact voters whose voter registration data may need updating. Find a letter writing party near you or organize one yourself: https://swingleft.org/events.
BACKGROUND:
While we all take note that Oregon/Portland‘s Gordon Sondland’s revised testimony clearly outlines that Trump has committed impeachable offenses and we continue to support the impeachment process, we also need to focus on the budget.
The government’s current budget runs out November 21. Congress is on recess. When they return they will only have a handful of days to pass a budget. Trump has made statements intimating he will shut down the government to stop the impeachment process. He shut it down last holiday season over his racist wall. And when Congress wouldn’t fund his wall Trump declared an emergency and took funding from other projects leaving our military and communities hurting.
Congress must protect our safety net and the impeachment process. There must be no cuts to our safety net, no additional money for CBP and ICE. The impeachment process must continue unabated.
Congress must stand up to this racist corrupt president as a co-equal branch of government.
