URGENT: The White House is being misled on the Jones Act—we must act now.
The White House is currently weighing another massive extension of the Jones Act waivers, driven by the ongoing price shocks from the Iran conflict. This is a critical moment.
Let’s be entirely straight about what is happening behind closed doors in Washington. A small circle of anti-American advisors is actively tricking President Trump into running this play. They are feeding the administration a completely false script, claiming that letting foreign-flagged ships hijack our domestic trade routes will somehow magically lower the price of gas. It is a total lie. This bad advice does absolutely nothing to lower prices at the pump because global oil markets set those costs, not the flags on our ships. Instead, foreign corporate operators simply pocket the profits while skipping out on American taxes and ignoring our safety standards.
This isn't a partisan battle. Protecting our maritime sovereignty has always united both sides of the aisle, bringing Democrats and Republicans together to defend American workers. Whether you support the administration or stand firmly against it, we can all agree that letting corporate outsourcing interests dictate our shipping rules is a disaster.
If these unprecedented waivers continue, they will fundamentally ruin the Jones Act. Every single temporary suspension shatters long-term confidence across the American maritime industry. Shipyards will stop building. Investors will pull back. Our national security readiness will crumble.
You already took the first vital step by signing this petition. Now we have to turn up the volume.
Here is exactly what we need to do today:
Call and email your federal representatives. Contact your local member of Congress and both of your state Senators. Tell them to reject any further extensions of these waivers immediately.
Share the petition link. Send this link directly to your friends and family via email or text: https://www.change.org/SaveJonesAct
Blast it on social media. Post the link (https://www.change.org/SaveJonesAct on your feeds to show Washington that a massive, bipartisan wall of Americans is watching them closely.
We cannot let bad advisors hollow out our merchant marine from the inside. Let's make sure our voices are too loud to ignore.