LEGISLATIVE CALLS TO ACTION -- Week of April 7 -- US Congress
- Andy Bradtke
- Apr 4
- 3 min read
Federal legislation to be heard week of 4/7/2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators unveiled a budget proposal Wednesday that’s central to President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda of tax breaks, spending cuts and border security, but they’re delaying some of the most difficult decisions, including how to pay for the multitrillion-dollar package.
Trump hosted Senate Republicans at the White House as they charge ahead to pass the framework by week’s end. Facing a wall of Democratic opposition, Trump publicly and privately assured the GOP senators he would back the plan — including its massive cuts to government programs and services. It also boosts the nation’s debt limit by $5 trillion.
“The Senate plan has my complete and total support,” Trump said at a White House event later in the day announcing his new tariffs.
The president also lobbed a warning to the senators: “I won’t like them so much if they don’t get this bill done.”
The Senate GOP’s budget framework would be the companion to the House Republicans’ $4.5 trillion tax cuts package that also calls for cutting as much as $2 trillion from health care and other programs. If the Senate can approve its blueprint, it would edge Trump’s allies on Capitol Hill closer to a compromise setting the stage for a final product in the coming weeks.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said “it’s now time for the Senate to move forward.”
While big differences remain, Republicans face increasing political pressure to deliver on what is expected to be Trump’s signature domestic policy package: extending the tax cuts, which were initially approved in 2017, during his first term at the White House. Those tax breaks expire at the end of the year, and Trump wants to expand them to include new no taxes on tipped wages, overtime pay and other earnings, as he promised during the 2024 campaign. (AP News)
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the ranking member of the Finance Committee, slammed the new budget proposal Wednesday.
“No amount of gaslighting from Republicans about the true cost of their tax plan, now upward of $5 trillion, can hide the fact that they want to pay for handouts to billionaires and corporations by kicking millions of Americans off their health insurance, driving up child hunger and wiping out hundreds of thousands of jobs,” he said in a statement. (NBC News)
Call to Action:
Contact legislators to voice your concerns about the current budget proposal.
Hello, my name is ______ and I am a constituent from ____________. I am calling to urge Senator __________ to reject the new Senate budget plan that is going against procedural rules and moving forward without necessary input from the Senate Parliamentarian. Senator _____ must vote no on this budget resolution. (From 5 Calls).
Stop the Attacks on the Federal Court System - Oppose the No Rogue Rulings Act -
Federal judges across the country have been consistently ruling against the Trump administration’s many unlawful actions, leading to Trump and Musk demanding the impeachment of judges who rule against them. While Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare statement rejecting the impeachment of federal judges, Republicans in Congress are strategizing ways to hamper the independent power of the federal judicial system to ensure that Trump’s clearly unconstitutional decrees can move forward without restraint.
These ideas include congressional hearings and impeachment resolutions against targeted federal judges and blocking funding from district courts that issue rulings Trump doesn’t like. Speaker Mike Johnson also suggested that Congress could completely eliminate entire district courts.
While Republicans struggle to amass sufficient support to impeach judges they don’t like, the House will move forward on a bill introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) that would greatly limit their legal authority. The No Rogue Rulings Act (H.R. 1526) would bar district court judges from issuing nationwide injunctions, the exact type of ruling that has blocked many of Trump’s plans to date.
The House expected to vote on the No Rogue Rulings Act on Wednesday, April 2nd, before Speaker Mike Johnson lost control of the chamber and sent them home for a week. But this will be back. Demand your representatives vote against this authoritarian attempt to rewrite our federal judicial system and block the necessary system of checks and balances.
Call to Action:
Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [CITY, ZIP].
“I’m calling to demand that [REP/SEN NAME] oppose H.R. 1526, the No Rogue Rulings Act, and any other attempt to rewrite the federal court system. Impeaching judges and changing their constitutional authority just because Trump doesn’t like their rulings is grossly authoritarian and must be stopped. Thank you”
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