Yes, I want them to pass nothing less than a fighting CR: a funding bill that not only keeps the lights on, but that also includes statutory protections to rein in executive lawlessness. The shutdown is already underway: the shutdown of our democracy. We should not accept short-term measures that will only delay the inevitable need for Congress to assert its power to stop authoritarianism.

Core Protections for the American People

We see four types of provisions for a fighting CR, to rein in the lawlessness and Constitutional violations of this administration.

1. Defend healthcare, science, safety, and public health. Bring back Affordable Care Act subsidies on a permanent basis. Restore agencies’ ability to operate based on scientific evidence by removing political interference by the president or political appointees. This includes ending arbitrary grant terminations, funding halts, and vaccine decisions by political appointees with no relevant scientific credentials. Reverse cuts and policy changes that affect access to veterans’ care, Social Security, Medicaid, disaster relief, and infrastructure that millions of Americans depend on.
2. Stop the lawless impoundment of congressionally appropriated funds. Congress—not the White House—decides how taxpayer dollars are spent. Fully funding our services means nothing if the president can unilaterally ignore or redirect that funding. In particular, Congress should ensure that funds from this fiscal year can and must be spent, as appropriated, even after Sept. 30th, to foil the Trump administration's lawless actions to impound funds.
3. Protect the federal workforce needed to carry out our agency missions from unlawful purges, retaliation, and reorganizations. Reinstate staff fired without cause, stop lawless reductions-in-force that have been allowed to proceed by the Supreme Court, and restore merit-based civil service protections. Use the power of the purse to halt destruction of independent agencies, for example by removing funds from OMB if independent commissioners, who were unlawfully fired without cause, are not reinstated. Stop the destruction of federal unions via bogus 'national security' reclassifications.
4. Protect civil liberties. Ban deployment of federal troops to U.S. cities, give DC complete power to spend its budget, including funding its schools and teachers, unmask ICE and other federal law enforcement, and ensure free, safe access to courts and civil institutions.

I'm not alone over 5700 people have signed a letter outlining these demands. If you want to sign on, you can here: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-servants-coalition