Contact our reps!

From the National Campaign for Transit Justice:

Despite all of your great work over the last few years getting members of Congress to support transit, and specifically federal support for transit operations, the Build America 250 Act advanced through the House T&I Committee. It had less funding for transit than IIJA did, no support for transit operations, and continues to treat transit as an afterthought to highways. But without pushback, it’s at risk of passing through the House, letting the Senate potentially lock in these horrible details just months before a much more pro-transit Congress comes to D.C. We must do everything we can to keep this bill from advancing.

Right now, that means keeping the bill from reaching the House floor. If the bill reaches the House floor, it becomes a lot more difficult to flex our collective muscle and show that transit is essential. There is already frustration within both the Democratic caucus about the quality of the bill that passed T&I, including committee members regretting their votes, and the Republican party. We need to add to this storm. 

Please use this template email and the information sheet above to reach out to your House representative(s) and ask them to tell House Democratic Leadership — Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Representative Katherine Clark, Representative Pete Aguilar, Representative Ted Lieu, and Representative Joe Neguse — that they don’t want this bill to come to the floor. Those of us based in D.C. will also be walking the halls of congress to spread the message and share the one-pager, but it will be much more effective the more emails that all of you send in.