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• FMA Urges Congress to Prevent a Government Shutdown

• A bipartisan short-term funding bill to keep the government open into March 2025 collapsed late on Wednesday, December 18, mere days before funding is set to expire. The current continuing resolution (CR) keeping the government operating runs out on December 20, 2024. FMA National President Craig Carter sent a letter to every member of Congress today on this vital issue, urging Congress to act immediately to prevent a shutdown.

  We encourage FMA members to join in the effort and contact your Representative and Senators and urge them to avert a wasteful and preventable government shutdown. While we are no fans of CRs, which result in billions of dollars of waste on their own, they are at least preferable to a complete lapse in funding and a shutdown.

  As with all our action letters, you are free to make edits, and we encourage you to personalize it to include anecdotes on how this affects your livelihood and your family. And it only takes a couple of minutes.

  Remain mindful of the Hatch Act: any action should take place outside of a federal installation and on your own time! Please do not forward this message to any government email addresses!

  Click here to send this action letter.

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