LWVAC is launching a "What You Can Do" (WYCD) campaign where we share a series of action plans. Being an activist has a broad range of engagement. These WYCD messages are intended to make being an activist easy. Ten minute activism. You can do it. Organizers do the research and work. We serve it to you in bite sized pieces. The important thing is that we don't just let the injustices and robbery of our democracy go unanswered. To be complacent is to be complicit. We will not be complicit. Read more about this campaign here. 

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CURRENT ACTION TOPIC: Oppose the budget bill. Call multiple times a day. There are multiple sample questions.

Robert Reich said the budget bill passed by the House before 7am on 5/22/25 might be the “worst, most damaging piece of legislation I’ve seen in my nearly 60 years in politics”. For that reason, this is a single item WYCD message.

Call your legislators and object to the tax cuts for the wealthy and health and food cuts for the rest of us. The senate has not yet voted on the bill. The House has passed it. So, messages are different for each legislative branch.

Senator Rick Scott: (202) 224-5274Senator Ashley Moody: (202) 224-3041

Suggested questions:

• The budget bill passed by the House will increase the national deficit over two trillion dollars. In the past, there has been a legislative outcry when spending might affect the national deficit. With the current budget, the deficit is driven by increased tax cuts to the wealthy. Why is it more important to give tax breaks to the wealthy than to reduce the national deficit? Vote no on the House budget bill.
• The budget bill passed by the House will reduce Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program by $290 billion over ten years. Why is our legislature taking food off the table for unwealthy Americans to give the wealthy greater, permanent tax breaks? Most of your constituents are not wealthy. Vote no on any bill that takes food off the table of your constituents to give the wealthy permanent tax breaks. 
• The Congressional Budget Office says the House budget cuts more than $715 billion from healthcare spending and $300 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. That would make nearly three million American households to lose benefits. To counteract the debt increase, Medicare would have to be cut some $500 billion. Do you approve of the loss of those benefits to your constituents? I certainly don’t. Vote no on any budget that cuts Medicaid, Medicare and food to your constituents.
• The economic effects of the House budget bill are expected to increase work hours while wages decrease for non-wealthy Americans. This is because households would need to increase earnings to compensate for the loss of Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Do you support your constituents working more hours for lower wages because the budget takes away their benefits? I sure don’t. Vote no on any budget that gives tax breaks to the wealthy on the backs of your constituents.
• The budget bill passed by the house would save the .1 percent of earners nearly $390,000. But. Your constituents who make $17 – 51,000 would lose $700 a year. Most of your constituents are not wealthy and would be the losers in the current budget. The budget is outrageous and mean-spirited. Vote no on any budget that gives tax cuts to the wealthy by cutting health care and food to your non-wealthy constituents.
• The plane that was accepted by the Defense Department for the administration’s use is corrupt. It violates the Emoluments Clause. No gift from a foreign nation is free. It is given with the expectation of favoritism. Use your voice to speak out against this obvious corruption by the administration. Other corruption comes from meme coin sales and favoritism to purchasers from a sitting president. Where is your voice (name of senator) in calling out blatant, visible, obvious corruption in the executive branch?

Sources: Penn Wharton University of Pennsylvania Budget Model, Heather Cox Richardson Letters from an American 5/23/25, Robert Reich substack.

Representative Kat Cammack: (202) 225-5744

Suggested questions:

• The plane that was accepted by the Defense Department for the administration’s use is corrupt. It violates the Emoluments Clause. No gift from a foreign nation is free. It is given with the expectation of favoritism. Use your voice to speak out against this obvious corruption by the administration. Other corruption comes from meme coin sales and favoritism to purchasers from a sitting president. Where is your voice, Representative Cammack, in calling out blatant, visible, obvious corruption in the executive branch?
• The House budget that you voted for gives significant, increased, permanent tax breaks for the wealthy while taking Medicaid, Medicare and Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program food off the tables of your constituents. Are you willing to conduct an in-person Town Hall to explain your vote to your constituents?
• Your office phone message says that you will respond to my message. Please explain to me why you voted for a budget that gives significant, increased, permanent tax breaks for the wealthy while taking Medicaid, Medicare and Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program food off the tables of your constituents. The cuts will have a significant effect on Florida communities. We are interested in why you have prioritized the wealthy on the backs of your non-wealthy constituents.