MoveOn Activists Have fun Victory in Debt Ceiling Battle

By MoveOn. Wednesday, June 7 2023

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After months of MAGA Republicans’ holding our financial system hostage, the Biden administration and Congress have lastly reached a deal to lift the debt ceiling, forestall a nationwide default, and protect crucial federal applications. The price range deal that President Biden secured isn’t good, however it 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 purpose of gutting and privatizing Social Safety and Medicare. 

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We have to take motion now greater than ever. Each dialog you could have together 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. Susceptible 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 overlook in 2024.

We received’t overlook 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 financial system. MoveOn members will make certain voters received’t overlook MAGA Republican efforts to intestine the progress we’ve fought for and create actual political penalties for them on the polls in 2024.