"Hope." "Change." "Yes, we can." "A new Washington." All are slogans expounded by then-Sen. Obama during his 2008 bid for the presidency.

ARLINGTON, VA - Following today's passage in the Senate, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is again calling on President Obama to back up his words with action, and veto re-authorization of the Export-Import bank.

Yesterday the Nevada Journal highlighted yet another example of wasteful spending on green energy: A Canadian company will receive up to $50 million in federal stimulus dollars for a Nevada solar plant — even though the plant will employ only two people! The article highlights some other striking statistics:

AFP’s Grassroots Efforts Critical in Dealing Government Takeover of Health Care a Major Setback in NJ

Americans for Prosperity praises Gov. Chris Christie in New Jersey for his absolute veto of the “New Jersey Health Benefit Exchange Act”, a central pillar of establishing the federal takeover in the Garden State.

Last night in Greeley, Colorado, and tonight, in Grand Junction, Colorado, hundreds of AFP activists gathered for “Stop Tanking America” rallies, events highlighting the need for real solutions to our energy needs.

Yesterday, on FoxNews with Sean Hannity, pollster Frank Luntz discussed the effectiveness of AFP's most recent "Wasteful Spending" ad. AFP's ad put a spotlight on the facts of President Obama's record on spending, and Luntz believes these facts will have a tremendous impact on Americans.

It seems that the Obama administration has no problem with subsidizing foreign companies while he preaches about the evils of big business here at home. Instead of stopping the handouts, the President and his policy advisers are making it a priority to prop up foreign firms with taxpayer dollars. Reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank (“Ex-Im Bank”) and increasing its loan limit from $100 billion to $140 billion is nothing more than corporate welfare and bad news for U.S. taxpayers.

On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced another drop in the unemployment rate from 8.2% in March to 8.1% in April. This drop, the seventh in the last twelve months, was applauded by the Obama Administration as a sign their economic policies are working. A closer look at the numbers reveals a vastly different conclusion. With calls for higher taxes, soaring deficits, and thousands of pages of new regulations, in the Obama Economy the best bet is to simply give up.

New Jersey is on the cusp of taking its biggest leap towards planting the roots of Obamacare in the Garden State. Last March, the state Legislature passed a bill that would establish the law’s bureaucratic health care exchanges and now time is running out to stop it. If Gov. Christie does not veto the New Jersey Health Exchange Act by May 10, Obamacare will become entrenched in New Jersey as state law.

Recently Obama for America Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter posted a video to Attack Watch responding to the new Americans for Prosperity ad, “Wasteful Spending.” This video is a desperate campaign tactic trying to divert and deflect from the truth: President Obama wasted billions in taxpayer dollars on “green energy” boondoggles in foreign countries.

ARLINGTON, VA - Today Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips issued the following statement, in response to troubling unemployment numbers released by the Labor Department. The report revealed that the unemployment rate dropped a tenth of a point to 8.1%, but for all the wrong reasons. The labor force participation rate shrank again last month, bringing it to the lowest level since 1981.

Tonight, in Tampa, Florida, hundreds came out for Americans for Prosperity-Florida’s “Free Our Fuel” Rally and Food Truck Festival. While enjoying good food, citizens were joined by local radio personality, Bill Bunkley, media personality, Tony Katz, The Heartland Institute’s James Taylor, and AFP Florida’s State Director Slade O’Brien.

Like many other agricultural industries, the U.S. cotton industry gets a lot of financial help from the government. The federal government gives cotton farmers $3 billion in subsidies each year, typically in the form of direct payments and crop insurance premium assistance. Unfortunately for American taxpayers, these lavish handouts aren’t limited to cotton farmers here in the U.S.—the federal government uses our taxpayer dollars to pay off cotton farmers in Brazil as well.

Obama for America recently released an ad, “Swiss Bank Account,” in response to the new Americans for Prosperity ad, “Wasteful Spending,” which highlights the billions of taxpayer dollars that were sent to foreign companies as part of the president's green energy government spending boondoggle. This is the second time in 2012 that President Obama has been forced to respond to an AFP ad detailing his disastrous economic policies. In this case, just like last time, instead of defending a failed, big government record, President Obama has launched a personal attack vilifying AFP - even using a version of "liar, liar pants on fire" to divert from the real issue of his failed record.

Many conservatives are outraged that the U.S. Senate hasn’t passed a budget resolution since early 2009. Yet in a way, even this eye-popping fact understates how badly federal budgeting efforts have broken down in recent years.

Passing a budget resolution in the spring is only the first step in a year-long process Congress is supposed to use to set discretionary spending levels. Once this budget blueprint is in place, each chamber must debate and pass 12 separate appropriations bills that actually dole out the line-by-line funding for federal agencies. The process was designed to be slow and deliberate, to allow the American people to see exactly how members of Congress were spending their tax dollars.

In practice, however, the process is quite messy. Partisan differences and both inter-chamber and inter-branch fights often get in the way. So here’s another surprising statistic: The last time both chambers completed the whole federal budget process on time was almost 20 years ago!

Read the rest at The Daily Caller.

ARLINGTON, VA – Immediately following AFP’s launch of a new TV ad exposing how President Obama used billions of taxpayer dollars to fund “green energy” projects and companies overseas, President Obama is once again directly attacking AFP.