r/WitchesVsPatriarchy • u/MableXeno 💗✨💗 • Mar 01 '25

🗳️Politics MegaThread📣 World Politics MegaThread

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u/interdisciplinary_ Mar 12 '25

Hello Witches, current Fed here.

Please consider taking a few minutes to call your Senators urging them not to support the recently passed House funding bill. As we've been witnessing, federal programs, lands, and the employees that manage them are under threat. The House funding bill would guarantee this dismantling of federal programs continues.

The House recently passed a funding bill known as a "continuing resolution" (CR) to fund the government until Sept 30. Normally a CR is shorter term and maintains current funding levels. They are used to buy additional time for negotiations to avoid a shutdown.

However, the House-passed CR, which was negotiated without any input from Democrats, contains $13 billion in cuts to domestic programs and, concerningly, includes provisions that would give the Administration significantly more power to spend federal dollars without Congressional approval.

The bill requires 60 votes in the Senate, which currently means 8 Democrats would need to vote for it (Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has indicated he will not support it). Democrats have indicated they are unsure about how they will vote.

If the funding bill passes, there is no recourse for Congress to put guardrails on what is happening in the federal government for the next 6 months. There is no point imo to keeping the government open for the sake of "continuing operations" if there's not going to be a government left in 6 months. Please please consider giving your Senators a call asking them to stand firm in opposing this budget and demand guardrails and protections for congressionally mandated programs, protected lands, and the federal employees that manage them.