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FEDERAL DAILY ACTION – Friday, October 13 YOUR CALL OR RESISTBOT: STOP TRUMP FROM DESTROYING THE ACA

While Republicans have failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Trump has indicated his willingness to sabotage the law through other means. ACA analyses have repeatedly shown that the individual markets are largely functioning well, with cost-sharing subsidies shielding buyers from premium cost increases. However, Trump and the Department of Health and Human Services, led by Tom Price, are taking steps to destabilize these markets.
Trump is currently threatening to withhold insurance payments known as cost-sharing reductions (CSRs), which allow insurers to offer lower-cost individual market plans with lower out-of-pocket costs to low-income consumers. The Congressional Budget Office has released an analysis concluding termination of CSR payments would increase premiums for the most popular individual market plans by 20% next year and 25% by 2020 and leave about 5% of the population without access to any individual plans at all. By contrast, if the CSRs are left in place, less than 0.5% of the population would live in a region without access to individual market plans.
Despite the CBO’s findings and insurance experts insistence that ACA markets are stable, the Trump administration has refused to commit to paying CSRs. Instead, he and his Republican allies in Congress appear willing to sabotage the ACA for political gain, creating turmoil in the individual insurance market and causing real harm to individuals.

RESISTBOT: Text the word “resist” to 504-09. You will prompted through to your MoC. It is easy and your representative receives a fax.

FIND YOUR REPRESENTATIVE: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

NEFL MoC numbers:
Rep. Ted Yoho
DC:202-225-5744
Orange Park: 904-276-9626
Rep. John Rutherford
DC 202-225-2501
Jacksonville 904-831-5205
Rep. Ron DeSantis
DC 202-225-2706
Palm Coast 386-302-0471
Rep. Al Lawson
DC 202-225-0123
Jacksonville: 904-354-1652
Sen Marco Rubio
DC 202-224-3041
JAX – 904-354-4300
Sen Bill Nelson
DC – 202-224-5274
JAX – 904-346-4500
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Your script:
Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from (ZIP CODE).

[IF CALLING REP or SEN]: I’m calling to express my serious concern about Trump’s intention to let Obamacare fail and put the lives of millions of Americans at risk. I urge REP/SEN to immediately pass legislation to stabilize the insurance market and ensure the ACA’s cost-sharing subsidies are fully funded. The American people want to see the insurance market fixed, not sabotaged for political gain.

Thank you for your hard work answering the phones.

[IF LEAVING A VOICEMAIL: please leave your full street address to ensure your call is tallied]

Trump signs order to eliminate ACA insurance rules, undermining marketplaces
Changes for “association health plans” might accomplish long-held GOP goals in the wake of failed repeal efforts.
WASHINGTONPOST.COM
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FEDERAL DAILY ACTION – Thursday, October 12 Your Call or RESISTBOT – #ProtectMueller #TrumpRussia

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is moving forward with signs that the probe is gaining momentum on money laundering, obstruction of justice and collusion. It is widely believed to be a matter of time before Trump attempts to fire Mueller as the investigation closes around him and his inner circle.

Trump and his allies have tried in many ways to obstruct or discredit the investigation. Some of Trump’s advisers are now urging him to step up the attack on Mueller.

Trump’s Republican allies in the Senate have previously attacked former FBI director James Comey. Trump’s attack on the FBI’s use of the Steele dossier in its investigation has been supported by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA). In the House, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes (R-CA), is also plotting to attack the Steele dossier despite his recusal and, according to Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA), Nunes “is trying to undermine the investigation.”

Trump ally Sean Hannity has launched repeated attacks on Mueller and called for Mueller’s investigation to be ended and replaced by a criminal investigation of Mueller.

As Mueller’s investigation appears to be getting close on money laundering, obstruction and collusion, it is urgent that Congress pass bipartisan legislation which has been introduced in the House and Senate to protect Mueller’s investigation. Trump is trying to stop the legislation, including a call to Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), a sponsor of the legislation, to try to get him to kill it.

We urgently need the legislation to be accelerated to protect the investigation and prevent a Constitutional crisis.

RESISTBOT: Text the word “resist” to 504-09. You will prompted through to your MoC. It is easy and your representative receives a fax.

FIND YOUR REPRESENTATIVE: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

NEFL MoC numbers:
Rep. Ted Yoho
DC:202-225-5744
Orange Park: 904-276-9626
Rep. John Rutherford
DC 202-225-2501
Jacksonville 904-831-5205
Rep. Ron DeSantis
DC 202-225-2706
Palm Coast 386-302-0471
Rep. Al Lawson
DC 202-225-0123
Jacksonville: 904-354-1652
Sen Marco Rubio
DC 202-224-3041
JAX – 904-354-4300
Sen Bill Nelson
DC – 202-224-5274
JAX – 904-346-4500

YOUR SCRIPT:

This is [NAME] and I’m a constituent in [ZIP].
I urge [Sen./Rep____] to act immediately on bipartisan legislation to protect Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation.
If the president is allowed to interfere with or terminate Mueller’s investigation, there will be both a Constitutional crisis and a crisis of confidence among the American people.
Our democracy is at stake in preserving Mueller’s investigation.

Trump urged by some to go on the attack against Mueller
Even as President Donald advisers encourage him to accept the realities of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, some are pushing Trump to fight back.
CHICAGOTRIBUNE.COM
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FEDERAL DAILY ACTION – Tuesday, October 10 YOUR CALL OR RESISTBOT: INVEST IN SCIENCE TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE

Sea level in Florida is projected to rise 31 to 81 inches by 2100.

Republican lawmakers in the House and the Senate have proposed 2018 spending bills that will underfund our nation’s scientific institutions. Many of these cuts specifically target climate change research: under the Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Act in the House (H.R.3267), funding for climate science at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) would drop by 19%, the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) would disappear, and NASA’s earth science budget would shrink by 11%. In addition, the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) funds would shrink by 4%, and the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) funds would be cut by over a hundred million dollars, with tight restrictions placed on the ability to redistribute funds towards novel research. The equivalent Senate appropriations bill (S.1662), though less extreme, also contains millions of dollars of cuts to programs at NASA, the NOAA, the NIST, and the NSF.

Scientific funding, which makes up less than 2% of the federal budget, is an essential investment in our country’s future: technological innovation, especially in the renewable energy sector, will create American jobs and improve lives, while climate change research must remain a high priority if we are to preserve our country – and our world – for future generations. Cutting funds for the NOAA, ARPA-E, NASA, the NIST, or the NSF is not the way to address the problem of federal debt. Both H.R. 3267 and S. 1662 have passed in committee and move next to floor votes in the House and Senate, respectively.

RESISTBOT: Text the word “resist” to 504-09. You will prompted through to your MoC. It is easy and your representative receives a fax.

FIND YOUR REPRESENTATIVE: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

NEFL MoC numbers:
Rep. Ted Yoho
DC:202-225-5744
Orange Park: 904-276-9626
Rep. John Rutherford
DC 202-225-2501
Jacksonville 904-831-5205
Rep. Ron DeSantis
DC 202-225-2706
Palm Coast 386-302-0471
Rep. Al Lawson
DC 202-225-0123
Jacksonville: 904-354-1652
Sen Marco Rubio
DC 202-224-3041
JAX – 904-354-4300
Sen Bill Nelson
DC – 202-224-5274
JAX – 904-346-4500

Your script:
Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from ___________.

I’m calling to urge __________ to fight for a 2018 appropriations bill that fully funds our nation’s scientific institutions, including NOAA and the National Science Foundation, because energy and climate change research is an investment in our nation’s future. I ask that ___________ oppose any appropriations bills which would reduce funding for crucial scientific programs.

Thank you for your time and attention.

[IF LEAVING A VOICEMAIL: please leIave your full street address to ensure your call is tallied]

E.P.A. Announces Repeal of Major Obama-Era Carbon Emissions Rule
The rollback of the Clean Power Plan, which limits greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, sets up a bitter fight over United States climate policy.
NYTIMES.COM