Actions for the Week of 4/13/25
Both Actions this week involve contacting your members of Congress. Here’s the contact information.
Contact Info for Senator Schumer
Phone: (202) 224-6542 (Washington DC office); (716) 846-4111 (Buffalo office)
Link to Email: https://www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/message-chuck
Contact Info for Senator Gillibrand
Phone: (202) 224-4451 (Washington DC office); (716) 854-9725 (Buffalo office)
Link to Email: https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/contact/email-me/
If outside of NY, find contact info for your senators here.
Find contact info for your House representative here.
Urgent: Keep DOGE Away from the FDIC
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was founded during the New Deal to protect our money from bank failures. They supervise banks and savings associations to make sure they’re sound, regulate banks not part of the Federal Reserve System, ensure banks comply with consumer protection laws, and most importantly insure our deposits. In short: not an organization we want messed with, especially during a period of market volatility. Although the FDIC is an independent agency created by Congress, it appears to be next on the DOGE kill list. Based on the kind of destruction they’ve done elsewhere, anyone with money in a bank should be worried.
Call or email your members of Congress with a very simple message:
DOGE is raiding the FDIC. What are you going to do to protect our savings from Musk? Because it can't be nothing.
No funding for more detention camps
As Republicans in Congress continue to go after food assistance and health care and target Social Security to pay for tax cuts for billionaires, there’s one thing they want to spend much, much more on. Plans are being formulated to increase ICE’s budget by $45 billion in order to build new detention camps. These will be run privately, allowing even lower standards and limited checks on human rights abuses which have already been documented. Learn more here.
Call or email your members of Congress and tell them that we want our money to go to institutions and programs that benefit Americans, not toward ICE camps.
Write your own script or use this one:
Mass deportation will have immense costs for our communities and our economy. The White House has suggested they’ll need more than $86 billion in appropriations just to start, and the American Immigration Council has estimated taxpayers will need to spend almost a trillion dollars over the next decade to complete their round-ups – much of which will go to mass detention camps 24 times as large as what we have now. This will be a human rights disaster. At a time when some members of Congress insist that we cannot afford to fully fund Medicaid or feed the hungry, it is an unacceptable use of our limited resources. Please oppose any appropriations for mass deportation and detention camps.
