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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
herereadthis.blog@herereadthis.blog ("Here, Read This") wrote:
As Trump and Musk Upend Washington, Congressional Phones Can’t Keep Up – The New York Times
«Americans dialing their members of Congress for basic services are going straight to voice mail. Interns and young aides can’t answer the phones quickly enough. And a system that usually handles a few dozen calls per minute is straining to keep up with more than 1,500.»
Speak your heart; don’t follow the script. Use the script as inspiration, in case you’re terrified (and that’s ok, too, I think it means something that you call in spite of fear). Be polite and concise; they have a lot of calls to go through. I strongly suspect they’re just ticking check boxes in order to give their bosses a reading on the temperature, so nuance is lost. But that’s ok. (Happy to be corrected by any actual aides/interns.)