CONGRESS CAN ACT RIGHT NOW.

Congress can act:

• Demand release of unlawfully withheld funds.
• Set enforceable deadlines and reporting requirements.
• Require agencies to disclose delayed, frozen, or canceled awards.
• Use appropriations, oversight, subpoenas, and lawful enforcement tools to defend the power of the purse.
• Restore programs through new appropriations or legislation when prior authority has been canceled or changed.

Follow the money from authorization to delivery—and put the answer on the record.

Congress can act:

• Restore or replace canceled local-food purchasing authority.
• Protect SNAP eligibility and benefits.
• Fund TEFAP food purchases and distribution capacity.
• Require transparent reporting of canceled food orders and community impacts.
• Support universal or expanded school meals where the public demands them.

Restore food security while strengthening the people who produce and deliver it.

Congress can act:

• Repeal or revise harmful eligibility and financing changes.
• Protect access for children, adults, seniors, people with disabilities, and lawfully present families.
• Restore public-health, maternal-health, rural-health, and community-health capacity.
• Require HHS to disclose delayed or withheld grants.
• Protect healthcare access while pursuing structural affordability reforms.

PHIERS offers a solutions path: telehealth-first routine care, connected community resources, and measurable follow-through while preserving comprehensive protection for in-person, specialist, emergency, and hospital services.

Congress can act:

• Require specific authorization for continuing hostilities—or pursue withdrawal from unauthorized hostilities.
• Restrict or end funding for unauthorized military operations.
• Demand disclosure of objectives, costs, casualties, civilian harm, and legal authority.
• Investigate credible allegations of unlawful conduct and war crimes.
• Use impeachment when verified evidence establishes constitutional grounds.

Demand the legal authority, the cost, and the answer. Do not let continuing war disappear into the background.

Congress can act:

• Protect state-administered elections from unlawful federal or military interference.
• Safeguard lawful voting, counting, certification, and transfer of power.
• Investigate misuse of public money, emergency authority, or federal agencies for electoral advantage.
• Put every Representative and Senator on the record before Election Day.
• Begin impeachment proceedings when verified evidence meets the constitutional standard.

Protect the people’s right to choose their leaders—and document what officials do to defend it.

Congress can act:

• Require human control over autonomous weapons and other life-or-death decisions.
• Require independent safety testing, incident reporting, and audit access.
• Protect privacy, civil rights, and the public from unlawful surveillance.
• Protect children, workers, creators, and consumers.
• Address energy, water, and infrastructure impacts from data centers.
• Establish liability for foreseeable harm.
• Require public transparency when government uses AI.

Innovation and accountability are not opposites. Guardrails protect the public—and trustworthy innovation.

Congress can act:

• Fund and oversee air-traffic-control staffing and modernization.
• Protect National Weather Service meteorologists, hydrologists, radar technicians, and warning operations.
• Preserve FEMA’s national disaster-response and recovery capacity.
• Require public readiness measures, staffing reports, and after-action accountability.
• Require transparent review and replacement plans before public-safety capacity is dismantled.

These are the systems people rely upon when aircraft, storms, fires, floods, and earthquakes place lives at risk.

Congress can act:

• Fund sufficient USDA and FDA inspection capacity.
• Require disclosure of inspection gaps, vacancies, and delayed enforcement.
• Protect whistleblowers and independent scientific review.
• Investigate outbreaks, contamination, and regulatory failures.
• Require corrective action before preventable harm spreads.

Put prevention, inspection, and corrective action where the public can see them.

Congress can act:

• Require meaningful donor and political-spending disclosure.
• Strengthen rules against coordination between campaigns and nominally independent groups.
• Expand voluntary public-financing alternatives.
• Strengthen anti-corruption and conflict-of-interest laws.
• Propose a constitutional amendment allowing reasonable limits on political spending.
• Pursue lawful structural judicial reform.

The goal is accountable government that answers to the people.

Demand action from the responsible public office:

• Give communities meaningful notice before major data-center approvals.
• Disclose electricity and water use, grid upgrades, and who pays.
• Publish tax abatements, subsidies, permanent jobs, and promised community benefits.
• Identify rate increases and reliability risks carried by residents and small businesses.
• Document liability and recovery when utility failures contribute to catastrophic fires.
• Protect insurance availability, claims fairness, and recovery.

Congress can establish national protections. State and local officials control many siting, rate, tax, land-use, wildfire-liability, and insurance decisions.