Dear Allies –

The Coalition for Sensible Safeguards is holding a Twitter storm on Friday, May 1 from 2-3 p.m. Eastern to draw attention to Trump’s deregulation and non-enforcement amid the pandemic. This is a key opportunity to talk about the devastating regulatory rollbacks and lack of enforcement in your issue area – and reach a broad national audience. Please ask your social media team to join us, and please share this email widely! Let me know by Friday at noon if you plan on participating.

Hashtag: #PandemicRollbacks

Below are some sample tweets drawing attention to a recent CSS letter opposing these rollbacks, but we hope that most of your tweets will focus on specific rollbacks and agencies that matter to your community. No matter what issues you work on – everyone is welcome! Just remember to use the hashtag, so that the rest of us can see and amplify your content. On behalf of the CSS Executive Committee, thank you in advance for participating.

Sincerely,

Public Citizen (co-chair) @Public_Citizen

Consumer Federation of America (co-chair) @ConsumerFed

AFL-CIO @AFLCIO

Center for Progressive Reform @CPRBlog

Economic Policy Institute @EconomicPolicy

Natural Resources Defense Council @NRDC

Union of Concerned Scientists @UCSUSA

SAMPLE TWEETS

We strongly oppose any executive action aimed at suspending existing regulatory protections or accelerating deregulation or nonenforcement policies in response to the pandemic. @Goodregs is telling the Trump administration to stop the #PandemicRollbacks. https://bit.ly/pandroll

Suspending regulatory enforcement will do nothing to help millions of unemployed Americans, small business owners or COVID victims and their families. In many cases, rolling back public protections will just make things worse. #PandemicRollbacks https://bit.ly/pandroll

Trump’s deregulatory agenda is based on the false premise that health and safety standards are a barrier to building a vibrant, resilient economy. The opposite is true. Sustainable growth comes when we protect workers and our environment. #PandemicRollbacks https://bit.ly/pandroll

Trump is using the pandemic as a pretext to advance partisan, ideological, corporate-driven deregualtory goals that long predate the coronavirus. Instead, we deserve real solutions vetted by public health experts and scientists. #PandemicRollbacks https://bit.ly/pandroll

We will hold the Trump administration accountable for any attempts to use the pandemic as a false pretext to slash regulations that protect the public. #PandemicRollbacks https://bit.ly/pandroll

David L. Rosen

Communications Officer on Regulatory Affairs

Public Citizen | Coalition for Sensible Safeguards | Clean Budget Coalition

drosen@citizen.org | (202) 588-7742 | @goodregs