Actions for April 2025
Phone numbers of representatives (Note: click the Home tab at top to return to the home page)
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer: (518) 431-4070 or (607) 772-6792 or (202) 224-6542
Senate Majority Leader John Thune: (202) 224–2321
Senator Elizabeth Warren: (202) 224-4543 or (413) 788-2690
Senator Ed Markey: (202) 224-2742 or (413) 785-4610
Jim McGovern: (413) 341-8700 or (202) 225-6101
Richard Neal: (413) 785-0325 or (202) 225-5601
Action 1: Demand Congress Stop Trump’s Tariffs and Reclaim Trade Authority
•On April 2nd, Trump announced the imposition of aggressive tariffs on imported goods from nearly every country, upending the global trade market and sowing cross-industry chaos. Economists note these tariffs are based on nonsensical calculations and unlikely to accomplish anything other than economic disaster. Wall Street has suffered its worst performance since the pandemic, fears of a recession continue to grow, and businesses are expected to raise prices to offset the new import taxes they must now pay.
•While Congress has the constitutional authority to levy tariffs, the president has limited power to impose tariffs for national emergencies. Trump has abused his emergency powers to force these tariffs in yet another power grab that bypasses Congress. Both Republicans and Democrats in Congress are alarmed about tariffs’ impact on jobs and prices. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) have introduced bipartisan legislation, the Trade Review Act of 2025, to rein in Trump’s plan and reclaim Congress’s authority over US trade policy. Tell your elected officials to join them.
Script: Hi My name is [Name]. I’m calling [Rep/Senator Name] Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [CITY, ZIP]. I'm calling to demand that [REP/SEN NAME] support bipartisan legislation like the Trade Review Act of 2025 to reclaim Congress’s authority over US trade policy and block Trump’s destructive and nonsensical tariffs. These tariffs are a multitrillion dollar tax increase on Americans and are already wreaking havoc on our economy. These tariffs must be stopped before things get worse. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Action 2: Contact your friends & family who live in districts with a Republican Senator and/or U.S. Representative and tell them to Demand Congress Stop Trump’s Tariffs and Reclaim Trade Authority (Action 1). When contacting your friends and family, copy and paste the scripts for them and look up their Republican reps phone numbers for them. Click here to find their DC office numbers.
Action 3: Reject Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid to Fund Billionaire Tax Giveaways
• On February 25, by a slim margin of 217-215, House Republicans passed budget resolution H.Con.Res.14, approving a GOP blueprint to finance Trump’s greedy, punishing agenda. The budget extends tax cuts passed during the first Trump Administration in 2017, including $4.5 trillion in tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans. The budget will finance these cuts by making $2 trillion in draconian spending cuts to life-saving social programs, especially Medicaid, and by raising the debt limit by $4 trillion. These budget cuts endanger the lives and financial stability of millions of Americans, and it would have disastrous consequences for the fiscal health of the United States.
• The Senate has already passed a very different budget resolution, which does not extend the 2017 tax cuts and has smaller cuts to mandatory spending items like Medicaid. For the budget to advance into law, the House and Senate must now develop and agree on a single identical budget resolution.
Call your member of Congress and tell them to reject the House’s initial budget resolution, which benefits billionaires at the expense of the social safety net that keeps millions of Americans alive.
Script: Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [CITY, ZIP]. I’m calling to urge [REP NAME] to vote against the Senate budget resolution that will slash funds for essential life-saving programs like Medicare and Medicaid to finance tax breaks for the wealthy. Congress must pass a budget that actually benefits all Americans. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Action 4: 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. This includes congressional hearings and impeachment resolutions against targeted federal judges and blocking funding from district courts that issue rulings Trump doesn’t like.
• While Republicans struggle to amass sufficient support to impeach judges they don’t like, on April 9, the House passed a bill 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. Call your Senators and tell them to oppose it.
Script: Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [CITY, ZIP]. I’m calling to demand that [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 would undermine our system of checks and balances, is grossly authoritarian and must be stopped. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Action 5: Stop the SAVE Act – A Voter Suppression Bill
Vote Coming Thursday!
Script: I'm calling to demand that Rep. Jim McGovern oppose H.R. 22, the SAVE Act, which will create unnecessary barriers to voter registration and disenfranchise countless voters, especially women, seniors, and low-income citizens. This bill is designed to block voters despite no real evidence of widespread fraud. Rep. Jim McGovern must vote against it. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Action 6: Support Gender-Affirming Care via Medicare and Medicaid
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule CMS-9884-P would eliminate federal protections requiring ACA marketplace plans to cover gender-affirming care, jeopardizing essential, life-saving treatments for trans individuals nationwide. Advocates for Transgender Equality are launching a campaign to drive comments opposing this harmful rule before the April 11 deadline. Please submit a personal comment using their individual comment portal.
YOU MUST PERSONALIZE A FEW SECTIONS. Sharing personal stories is a powerful way to emphasize the harm this rule would cause but obviously it’s OK to make a comment even if you’re not trans. We almost all know someone who is. Let’s support the trans community! Individual Comment Portal
Action 7: Send Gratitude To Cory Booker
Let’s call Cory Booker’s office today to thank him for making his marathon speech. His office numbers are (973) 639-8700 or (856) 338-8922 or (202) 224-3224.
We can say something like: I’m calling as an American citizen to thank Senator Booker for making his marathon speech. THIS is the kind of energy and determination we want to see, and we are so grateful to him for it. Also please thank him for reading letters from American workers who’ve been hurt by Trump and DOGE—these stories need to be aired widely. Senator Booker is a true patriot.
Action 8: Bring Abrego Garcia Home
Script: Hi, my name is [ Your Name ] . I am a voter from [CITY, ZIP]. I am outraged that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was unlawfully deported by ICE to a prison in El Salvador. Garcia is a husband, father, and union worker who was working to support his three children before he was illegally torn away from his family. He has been wrongfully imprisoned because of “an administrative error”. I want [ REP/ SEN NAME ] to PUBLICLY DEMAND the immediate return of Abrego Garcia. This horrible injustice must be remedied by immediately returning this man to his family.
Action 9: Demand Actions to Curb Security Breaches
Script: Hi, my name is [ Your Name ] . I am a voter from [CITY, ZIP]. I am calling because I am both outraged AND terrified over the Trump administration’s incompetent and careless use of the unsecure commercial Signal app to discuss highly sensitive and classified information. It is beyond dangerous that this has been happening for several months. I want [ REP/ SEN NAME ] to PUBLICLY DEMAND: (1) the immediate revocation of security clearances for every administration official who participated in the Signal chat regarding the Yemen attack. (2) the resignation of every appointed administration official who participated in the Signal chat. (3) congressional investigations in the administration official’s regular use of unsecure communication apps and their violation of record keeping laws and the Espionage Act.