URGE CONGRESS TO #RAISETHECAPS

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​ Budget cuts hurt our national priorities, inhibiting #innovation & delaying the #discoveries of today & tomorrow. 
 #RaiseTheCaps

Twitter handles for Congressional Leadership:

• Nancy Pelosi: @SpeakerPelosi
• Kevin McCarthy: @GOPLeader
• Mitch McConnell: @SenateMajLdr
• Chuck Schumer: @SenSchumer
   

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  Let’s urge Congress to pass a bipartisan budget deal to raise the #sequestration budget caps for FY20.
  Sequestration today means that we can’t address tomorrow’s threats. #RaiseTheCaps   

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Sequestration is back:

The return of progress-stifling budget caps place science funding in jeopardy. Under the 2011 Budget Control Act, Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20) defense spending must be cut by $71 billion and non-defense discretionary (NDD) spending by $55 billion relative to the current federal budget. Unless Congress passes and the president signs a bill raising the FY20 budget caps, cuts to science agency budgets are inevitable. Realistically, no federal agency that supports research and technology will be spared.

For more background on the caps, click here.
 

Don't wait. take action now!

Budget decisions are being made now.
If a deal isn’t cut soon and gridlock takes hold, the best case is an across-the-board cut slashing every science agency budget.
If we wait to speak up as the threat of funding cuts escalates, it sends a message that science is not a priority

Ten reasons to #raisethecaps:

It’s time for a budget deal!
Out-of-date and out-of-touch “sequestration” budget caps are preventing Congress from advancing national priorities like economic competitiveness and faster medical progress. Strategic investments fuel health, security and prosperity; the budget caps stifle all three.

Here are 10 reasons why it’s time to #RaiseTheCaps:

The budget caps are holding our nation back.

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