Calls needed: Demand that Mitch McConnell stop holding the government hostage

Call now to demand that Mitch McConnell call a vote on the DHS continuing resolution that the House of Representatives just passed. Click below for a sample script and the number to call:

President Trump is desperate for border wall funding. Last week he hijacked prime time to spread anti-immigrant hysteria and  keeps threatening to use emergency powers to get funding. We need to turn up the pressure on Mitch McConnell to end this shutdown before things get worse. Call now to demand that he call a vote on the DHS continuing resolution and re-open the government now. The same bill passed in the Senate unanimously in December and is likely to pass in the Senate again.1 Calls needed: Demand that Mitch McConnell stop holding the government hostage. Click here to start your call. More than 800,000 federal workers have been on unpaid leave or working without pay for more than two weeks. Many are struggling to make ends meet.2 Yet, McConnell doesn't seem to care. He is willing to keep the government closed to try to force Democrats to compromise with his party's fragile leader. Democrats have made clear that they want to end the shutdown and will refuse to cave to Trump's hostage taking. Now the ball is in McConnell's court. His refusal to act is unacceptable. The Democratic plan to end the government shutdown includes two components: one bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security until February to allow time for further negotiation and another to fund other federal agencies through October. Both bills easily passed in the House of Representatives with bipartisan support and would very likely pass the Senate again. In fact, at least three Senate Republicans recently called on Congress to stop playing games and end the shutdown.3 The next step is for the Senate to pass legislation and send a bill to Trump. That can't happen until McConnell gets the message and allows a vote. Calls needed: Demand that Mitch McConnell stop holding the government hostage. Click the link below to start your call: https://act.credoaction.com/call/calls_mcconnell_end_shutdown/?t=7&akid=31204%2E3130208%2Ehe7df5 -Nicole Regalado, CREDO Action  Click below for a sample script and the number to call: References: Matt Fuller, "Democrats Pass Bill To Reopen Government; Shutdown Continues," HuffPost, Jan. 3, 2019. Stephanie Ebbs, "Faces of the shutdown: In second week, more people impacted by closed agencies," ABC News, Jan. 4, 2019. Alexander Bolton, "Cracks beginning to show in GOP shutdown resolve," The Hill, Jan. 3, 2019.