1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

At 2 AM, when you thought the country was asleep, Senate Republicans voted to defund NPR — including the emergency broadcast systems that protect Americans from imminent disaster. This isn’t budget-cutting. This is cruelty by design. Texas just suffered a preventable tragedy from flash floods. People died because there weren’t enough staff or alerts to warn them. And your response? Kill the emergency system entirely. First you passed the Big Beautiful Bill, ensuring people will die from poverty, lack of healthcare, and environmental destruction. Now you’re ensuring Americans will die without warning when the next flood, fire, or storm comes. Let’s call this what it is: deliberate, systemic genocide. And yes — there will be trials. There will be accountability. Every name on that vote will go down in history, and we will make sure of it. You have blood on your hands, and the American people will not forget. Immediately you need to draft legislation and Vote to restore funding, or be remembered as one of the butchers of your own people.