Policy Corner

D.C. is abuzz for the first time in many decades with talk about the need to examine government efficiency and how taxpayer dollars are being spent. Through the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), there is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the Trump Administration and Congress to capitalize on that momentum to support the top U.S. economic driver: small businesses.

Congress should take the opportunity before it to repeal the IRA in its entirety, using appropriate projected changes in spending, revenues, and the debt limit, to pay for the extension of the tax cuts in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

A recent investigation by the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General (OIG) confirms what veterans, whistleblowers, and Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s previous investigations have been sounding the alarm on for years: VA leaders are deliberately rigging the system to block veterans from accessing Community Care.

Members of Congress are moving to repeal President Joe Biden’s lame-duck attempt to unilaterally purge medical debt from credit reports, a naïve idea that would do little to solve its underlying causes.

This document sheds light on a few of the high priority regulatory process reforms that are available to states.

Costs are high, lines are long, and paths to treatments and services are convoluted. What Americans need at this very moment is flexibility.

Americans for Prosperity submits these comments to the “WOTUS Notice: The Final Response to SCOTUS; Establishment of a Public Docket; Request for Recommendations” published March 24, 2025 in the Federal Register by the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers (“Corps”).

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed the Public School Access and Transparency Act (SB572) into law, marking a major victory for parents, students, and transparency advocates. The new law strengthens the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act by ensuring public access to the learning materials used in public schools.

The Biden Administration’s cancellation of the ANWR lease sale is a classic case of an out-of-control administrative state brute forcing its preferred policy outcome in open defiance of a bill passed by Congress and signed by the President.

The existing tax code is rife with provisions that encourage people to alter their behavior in socially harmful ways. Tax reform efforts differ from simple tax cutting by attempting to streamline the code and make it less economically destructive.