TLDR: Step 1: Sign the A4LI proposal to maintain NIH/NIA funding and implement greater focus/coordination with aging biology. This will help them as they engage with members and staff of Appropriations Committees. Step 2: Find your House and Senate officials here, and use their contact pages to urge maintaining funding for ARPA-H and NIH/NIA, as well as a greater aging biology focus in NIH. Feel free to use the sample below, and contact them weekly over the next few months as budgets and appropriations are debated. Dear Member of Congress and Staff, The 2027 Executive budget proposal contains a $555 million (37%) cut to ARPA-H, which would be disastrous for US medical breakthroughs. ARPA-H funds research for bold medical innovation to maintain and restore health in costly pathologies and disabilities, such as neurodegeneration, osteoarthritis, blindness, and more. Cures for these conditions are essential to an aging country. I urge you to protect ARPA-H's $1.5 billion budget and preferably increase it.…