This Tweet Thread Breaks Down What You Must Do To Stop Trumpcare
ATTN.com
June 12, 2017
Like the House, the Senate is trying to get their version of the Trumpcare bill voted on by the end of June.
Like the House, they are doing so with almost no public debate on the contents of the bill.
But even the House bill was made available to the public for reading, and the Senate has, so far, revealed virtually nothing about what changes they plan on making to the health care system.
With so much at stake, and so little time to change minds, MoveOn.org's Washington policy director Ben Wikler wrote in a Twitter thread exactly why the next few days are so important.
He also noted what you can do to make your voice heard and possibly influence your senator.
Congress was deluged with phone calls by angry constituents in the first few months of the Trump administration, particularly when it came time for the House to vote on the AHCA.
But that effort appears to have fallen off somewhat, and Wikler makes it clear that calls to Congress have the best chance of convincing Republicans that their vote in favor of Trumpcare will have consequences.
Finally, Wikler cautions not to call Senate offices of a state you don't live in pretending to be a constituent, as it would cause Congressional offices to assume all calls are fake and disregard them.
At this point, there are a number of Republican senators rumored to be wavering on certain aspects of the bill, and losing even three of the 52 Republicans in the Senate would mean Trumpcare can't pass.
A deluge of phone calls might get any one of these Senators off the fence and into the "no" camp.
Read Tweets:
http://www.attn.com/stories/17629/tweet-thread-breaks-down-how-you-can-be-heard-trumpcare
"Today is the day to defeat Trumpcare"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10029191795
