Add your name to tell Congress to BLOCK any attempts to politicize or eliminate scientific roles, agencies, and public research that protect our health, environment, and communities.
Dear MoveOn member,
Marisa here from Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). Donald Trump and his anti-science loyalists are determined to implement the worst of Project 2025 and are already working with corporate polluters to intimidate scientists and sideline science—endangering communities, people, and the planet. We have to intervene NOW and build the public pressure we need to stop attacks against scientists and science.
The Trump administration’s current agenda would eviscerate the protections that everyday people support and count on. Clean air and water. Safe food and medicine. Products that won’t harm us. Protection from extreme weather and other damaging effects of climate change. Without strong public science, people will suffer, and historically marginalized communities will continue to bear the burden of these harms.
USC has launched an open letter to Congress calling on members to block attempts to politicize or eliminate scientific roles, agencies, and public research that protect our health, environment, and our communities. But elected officials need to know that their constituents are watching and expecting them to act.
Add your name to Congress demanding they defend and protect the science and scientists that keep the public safe!
We need independent science to inform strong public policy that puts the health, safety, and welfare of our families and communities first. Protecting rigorous and independent science is a commonsense, nonpartisan goal that every member of Congress should support.
The first 100 days of the Trump administration will set the stage for the next four years. We have to mobilize NOW to fight back against the politicization of science. Members of Congress must take action immediately in three ways:
- They must oppose anti-science Cabinet nominees to any federal agency who do not agree on the record to follow and/or implement a scientific integrity policy in their agency.
- They must defend the safeguards that protect the health and safety of people across the United States, especially those overburdened by pollution. This includes the nation’s bedrock public health and environmental laws—such as the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.
- They must oppose the elimination of public agencies or their staff directly or indirectly, including through draconian budget cuts, reclassifying staff, or abruptly moving agency headquarters, all of which are a transparent and explicit effort to decimate scientific expertise and decision-making.
Together, we can work to limit political attacks on government scientists and experts, stop suppression of scientific research, fight unqualified science agency nominations, and defend against other anti-science actions in the Project 2025 agenda.
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Thanks for all you do.
–Marisa Vertrees, Union of Concerned Scientists
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