Despite Trump’s claim to support peace negotiations,  he’s sided with Putin’s unprovoked war against Ukraine, which has destroyed vast areas of the country and caused the deaths of at least 46,000 soldiers and 12,000 civilians—spewing out Moscow’s propaganda, cutting military aid to Ukraine, calling Zelensky a dictator, and alienating our NATO allies who steadfastly support Ukraine’s survival. Congress must strongly reiterate its opposition to Putin’s ruthless expansionism and support  for Ukraine’s defense of its sovereignty.

Donald Trump is drunk on power and unleashing economic chaos on the US and the world. His illegal use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose shifting tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China, based on a fabricated national emergency, must be blocked, and Congress must reassert its power over trade policy.

Political parties court your vote; authoritarian regimes prevent you from voting altogether. With Trump’s unconstitutional Executive Order and the SAVE Act, the MAGA regime’s rewriting the voting eligibility rules to silence the voices of veterans, seniors, students, working families, and communities of color because they don’t want us to have a say in decisions affecting our lives. We cannot let this happen.

Two weeks ago, Schumer’s Democratic Caucus had the chance, by playing procedural hardball, to signal their opposition to Trump/Musk’s usurpation of Congress’ spending power and possibly to slow their radical anti-government agenda. Instead, they facilitated, rather than opposed, Project 2025’s and Trump/Musk’s plans to dismantle, loot, and privatize the federal government.

We need leaders who understand the emergency we’re in, are willing to engage with the realities of the present and can match the fervor of the ordinary Americans rising up to defend our communities, our constitution, our democracy, and our way of life—and the first step down this path is finding new leaders.

 Our MoCs in both chambers need to hear every day that Schumer must go. During these calls, let’s also thank our Democratic Representatives for courageously rejecting the MAGA playbook and urge them to keep fighting to protect us.

On Tuesday, we learned that National Security Advisor Waltz had set up a group chat over Signal, a commercial messaging app not approved for national security use, that somehow included a reporter without security clearance, during which he, DOD Secretary Hegseth, V-P Vance, and other Cabinet members casually discussed secret war plans to attack the Houthis in Yemen on March 15. 

 As your constituent, I demand that you call for Pete Hegseth’s and Michael Waltz’s immediate resignation. Their actions have put our country and our armed forces at risk and immediate accountability is needed. If they refuse to resign, you must call for their impeachment. Since Congress is a coequal branch of government, you must also demand Congressional oversight hearings—investigating what other operations they may have exposed, what servicemembers they may have endangered, and what records they may have destroyed.

No matter our race, gender or background, we want our kids to have the freedom to learn and become whatever they desire. By destroying the Department of Education, Trump is doing the bidding of the billionaires who bought his way to power. When we remain united, we can defeat them.

On March 16, the Trump MAGA regime misused the 1798 Wartime Act, which could only be invoked during wartime, to abduct Venezuelan immigrants from our communities, based entirely on unsubstantiated allegations of membership in a Venezuelan gang—which they were not allowed to challenge—and illegally sent them to a fellow dictator in El Salvador, in violation of a court order, who has agreed to hold them for at least a year in a mega-prison known for its extreme overcrowding and human rights abuses at an annual cost to taxpayers of $6 million.

All who value liberty and justice must unite and fiercely defend our communities against this assault on our freedom to keep our loved ones safe and our families whole. 

Our MoC’s must stand united with us in outrage, loudly denounce these horrendous, illegal, fascist acts, introduce a resolution condemning Trump for behaving like a king, and call out MAGA sympathizers as the racist bigots they are.

The Trump administration’s use of antisemitism claims to punish Columbia University students and the University itself—a re-packaging of McCarthyism—is a test case to determine how hard it will be to create a fascist, Christian nationalist state. To stop this authoritarian takeover, we must expose Trump’s real motivation—to strictly control speech, protest, and higher education. We cannot let this happen.

On Friday, 10 Senate Democrats, led by Minority Leader Schumer, Minority Whip Durbin, Chief Deputy Whip Schatz, and Sen Gillibrand, the DSCC Chair, banded together with 6 other spineless colleagues to support passage of a 6-month continuing resolution (CR) allowing Musk and Trump to close down even more of our government for the remainder of the fiscal year. In doing so, they not only abandoned the people they swore to represent, but they probably gave up Democrats’ only chance to push back against the damage Trump and Musk are causing—since Republicans will likely include the debt-limit increase in the budget reconciliation bill  that’s filibuster-proof. Republicans now know they can get what they want without concessions, making the next bill even worse. Because these leaders are clearly out of touch with what the American people want and need, they must be replaced immediately.

Thank you for standing with the American people, but I also need you to demand new leadership that will mold Senate Democrats into a true opposition force. 

On Tuesday the House voted 217-213 to approve Trump’s version of funding the government through the end of September. Unlike previous continuing resolutions, this bill is not “clean” because it decreases nondefense spending by $13 billion and adds $6 billion for immigration enforcement and defense. More importantly, rather than slowing down or eliminating Trump and Musk’s assault on federal programs and agencies, it gives them even more leeway to shutoff and repurpose federal funding as they see fit. It also gives Trump unchecked trade war powers.

This disgraceful continuing resolution will be up for a vote in the Senate shortly, and I am calling on my Senators to work tirelessly to ensure that the Senate successfully filibusters it. Democrats must stand firm, using their leverage to hold out for a government funding deal that includes ironclad protections to stop Trump and Musk from hijacking federal spending.

Our Social Security system has paid benefits in full and on time for nearly a century—through wars, depressions and pandemics. Despite Trump’s numerous claims not to touch Social Security, he’s encouraging Musk and his DOGE goons to play Russian Roulette with our earned benefits. We cannot allow Musk to destroy this extremely popular program which is the bedrock of America’s social safety net. Instead, Congress must lift its payroll tax cap and require millionaires and billionaires to pay into the system just like everyone else.

Trump’s been selling his racist, white supremacist mass deportation scheme with lies, and like with everything else he’s hawking, ordinary Americans will suffer. Mass deportation will have immense costs for our friends and family, our neighbors, our communities, and our economy, while providing no benefits to American workers or other citizens—and a huge price tag, estimated at almost $1 trillion over the next decade. If, as MAGA Republicans claim, our government cannot afford to fully fund Medicaid or feed the hungry, it certainly cannot afford these exorbitant costs either. Our MoCs must oppose every penny in appropriations for Trump’s mass deportation.

How Trump and Vance aligned themselves with Putin in his unprovoked war against Ukraine is outrageous, and America owes Zelensky an apology. This mistreatment of a brave and courageous ally, whose people have been fighting valiantly for three years to protect their homeland from Russia’s unprovoked, imperialist aggressions, is a national and international disgrace.Congress must come to Ukraine’s defense—by introducing and passing a resolution (1) lauding Zelensky’s courage and tenacity, (2) reaffirming that Congress stands with the Ukrainian people valiantly fighting to protect their sovereignty, (3) demanding the immediate release of the appropriated military aid, and (4) requiring our government to continue supporting Ukraine both on and off the battlefield.

Voting’s a fundamental right government should protect, but Trump and MAGA Republicans want to disenfranchise millions of citizens with the SAVE Act (HR.22/S128), by forcing us to prove our citizenship in person with either a passport or a birth certificate matching our legal name when registering to vote or moving or changing  party affiliation.  Since our laws already prevent noncitizen voting, imposing unnecessary and burdensome barriers to voting for the vast majority to prevent the 85 cases of alleged noncitizen voting the Heritage Foundation uncovered from 2002-2023 is nonsensical. The SAVE Act’s about disenfranchisement, not safeguarding elections, and I expect you to ensure it does not become law.

Beyond massive layoffs to HHS, every day the funding of scientific research becomes more precarious, given that Trump and Musk are making “nothing less than a very concerted attempt to shut down medical research across the United States.” Our Members of Congress must call out daily the gravity of this massive destruction and take clear steps to reverse the damages caused by MAGA’s anti-science activities before it is too late.