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On his first day in office, President Joseph Biden issued an executive order revoking several of his predecessor’s executive orders designed to bring greater transparency and fairness to federal regulations. In the order, Biden directed all executive branch agencies to rescind “any orders, rules, regulations, guidelines, or policies” deriving from those executive orders he revoked. […]
On April 7, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law HB 4, the New Mexico Civil Rights Act. The law provides an avenue for New Mexicans to file a lawsuit against government employees, including law enforcement officers, if they have had their constitutional rights violated. Additionally, the law explicitly prohibits the government from using […]
The federal government is on an unsustainable fiscal path – and that’s particularly true for federal spending, specifically. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the share of our overall economy consumed by Washington is set to keep growing as far as the eye can see, unless Congress and the president act: If government spends more […]
There’s an explosion of spending going on in Washington, with lawmakers competing to waste today’s tax revenues and borrow even more from future generations. Before 2020, the federal government had never spent more than $4.5 trillion in a single fiscal year. But in 2020, Congress appropriated approximately $4 trillion just to address the coronavirus pandemic, […]
Trusted reform should be made permanent grassroots group says COLUMBIA, SC – Americans for Prosperity-South Carolina (AFP-SC) today announced the launch of a robust, statewide six-figure mail and digital campaign focused on helping reform South Carolina’s health care system. The group is targeting a temporary reform that was enacted last year by Governor McMaster during […]
The Protecting the Right to Organize Act, now awaiting consideration in the Senate, would upend the livelihoods of countless independent contractors, freelancers, and gig workers across the country. The bill’s ABC test would allow the National Labor Relations Board to penalize businesses for hiring independent contractors. Then, PRO Act supporters hope, those businesses would hire […]
Dr. Yang Jianli wants the U.S. Supreme Court to remember that the right to privacy in association is essential to freedom. Not just in the United States, but worldwide. “There are always some people who tend to use power to interfere with freedom,” he says. This is the thrust of an amicus curiae brief Dr. […]
Should Americans have to choose between staying safe or speaking up? This question is at the heart of Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta, a case before the Supreme Court asking whether it’s constitutional for those in power to make blanket demands for lists of organizations’ supporters – and whether doing so supersedes people’s rights […]
Americans for Prosperity is working to reform the nation’s asset forfeiture laws, which often permit law enforcement to seize and forfeit private property from individuals without ever charging them with a crime. In almost all jurisdictions, when law enforcement does take ownership of a persons’ property, they get to keep most or all of the […]
