Where Did the $50 Trillion Go? A Letter to My Children.
We asked 5,000 lawmakers one question. Here’s who answered.
Did your lawmakers answer?The question every lawmaker was asked
Do your elected representatives agree that government should not pass laws that disproportionately benefit the wealthiest few?
- Agrees0
- Agrees with conditions0
- Disagrees0
- Undecided0
- Declines to answer0
- No answer yet5,000
- Contacted; question not yet sent
- Not contacted
No office has answered yet. This page updates the moment one does.
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Why this matters
A Letter to My Children to legislators. Web forms + Hill email variant. Tracker on: Lincoln "government for the people" question.
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A Letter to My Children
There will come a day when you will ask what everyone did when everything fell apart. This letter is my answer.
How we track and verify responses
- Contacted means our records show the message was actually delivered to the office: Zoho’s sent records for email, the submission result for web forms. Staff messages count for their member’s office.
- Every office gets the same question. Party is shown only as a label. 2B.org does not endorse or oppose candidates.
- Verified office means the response was confirmed through a one-time link sent to an address on file for that office, or checked by an editor.
- Statements are published word for word. We remove one only for legal reasons, and we record why.
- Took a position = supports, supports with conditions, or opposes. Acknowledged = undecided or declined to comment. Offices can update their response at any time.
- We do not publish email open or click data. Government mail filters open messages automatically, so those numbers say nothing about whether a person read them.
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