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Grassroots group launched easy-to-follow policy platform lawmakers can use to make Minnesota the best state to live, work, and raise a family St. Paul, MN – Americans for Prosperity-Minnesota (AFP-MN) released the “Roadmap to Prosperity” agenda to serve as a guide for lawmakers to restore fiscal stability, ignite the Minnesota economy, focus on sound investment […]
Leading Grassroots group opposes Medicaid expansion in budget Richmond, VA – Americans for Prosperity-Virginia (AFP-VA) reacted to the House of Delegates’ recently unveiled budget proposal, which includes Medicaid expansion. The group sent a letter to lawmakers expressing its disappointment in the proposal. The group deems the proposal to be irresponsible and lacking in conservative principle. […]
Week six of Florida’s legislative session has come and gone, and the chess game continues as we move closer to the season of budget conferencing. Just seven days of session remain until the 50th day, the last day for regularly-scheduled committee meetings. Florida Billboard, Week 6 Notably, the House’s tax cut package was released, with […]
Memo: How Work Requirements Help Lift People Out of Poverty And Preserve The Social Safety Net Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services (CMS) announced that they would allow states to develop their own work requirements for able-bodied adults. The elderly, disabled or pregnant would be excluded. Despite the hand-wringing by opponents and headlines suggesting that these […]
TOPEKA, Ks.– Americans for Prosperity-Kansas (AFP-KS) released a statement today after the Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare heard witness testimony on Senate Bill 38. The bill would expand Medicaid by adding able-bodied adults to an already strained program and balloon an already growing state budget, putting the state deeper in the red. “If […]
Grassroots group unveils policy agenda in front of local activists and legislators St. Paul, MN – Americans for Prosperity-Minnesota (AFP-MN), the free market grassroots advocacy organization launched “Roadmap to Prosperity” a comprehensive policy agenda to help make Minnesota the best state to live, work, and raise a family. AFP-MN released the policy agenda during their legislative […]
Arlington, Va. – The White House yesterday released the president’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget, which included calls by the Trump administration to reinstate funding for cost sharing subsidies (CSRs) and risk corridors in Obamacare that send billions of taxpayer dollars to health insurance companies each year. Americans for Prosperity responded by calling on the White […]
Hope [Scholarship] springs eternal in sunny Florida as week five of the Florida legislative calendar comes to an end, and the final four weeks continue to loom. The major themes of the week were educational freedom, the rejection of corporate welfare, and the reduction of regulatory red-tape. View Week 5 Florida Billboard here Among the […]
Last week, President Donald Trump discussed the importance of passing right-to-try legislation to give thousands of terminally ill Americans access to potentially life-saving treatment. In his State of the Union address, President Trump stated: We also believe that patients with terminal conditions should have access to experimental treatments that could potentially save their lives. People who are terminally ill should not have to go […]
