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After months of MAGA Republicans’ holding our economic system hostage, the Biden administration and Congress have lastly reached a deal to lift the debt ceiling, forestall a nationwide default, and protect essential federal packages. The price range deal that President Biden secured isn’t excellent, but it surely protects jobs, veterans’ advantages, historic local weather change investments enacted in 2022, and lifesaving well being care advantages, whereas largely preserving the social security web.
Collectively, MoveOn members’ activism stopped Republicans in Congress from dragging all of us right into a catastrophic default and prevented MAGA Republicans from gutting the social and financial progress MoveOn members have fought for over the past two years. We turned up the stress on susceptible Home Republicans in swing districts by means of rallies, floods of calls to their workplace telephone traces, and advertisements calling out their complicity in upholding the MAGA agenda. Collectively, we stopped the long-held Republican objective of gutting and privatizing Social Safety and Medicare.
The battle for an America the place everybody can thrive is much from over–be a part of us on our upcoming month-to-month volunteer community name and discover out how one can plug into this work!
We have to take motion now greater than ever. Each dialog you’ve along with your neighbors, each rally you take part in, and each name to Congress that you simply make is important to combating extremist MAGA ideology in 2024. Weak Republicans in Congress are relying on our apathy to allow them to sail on to a different time period. We—and the tens of hundreds of thousands of Individuals who Home Republicans betrayed by voting in lock-step for an excessive, rightwing price range in April—received’t neglect in 2024.
We received’t neglect how, for months, MAGA Republicans manufactured a disaster utilizing our livelihoods and social security web as bargaining chips to complement their company backers whereas risking tanking our economic system. MoveOn members will ensure voters received’t neglect MAGA Republican efforts to intestine the progress we’ve fought for and create actual political penalties for them on the polls in 2024.
