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Topeka, KS—Today, Americans for Prosperity-Kansas (AFP-KS) is applauding the passage of needed legislation to reign in agencies across Kansas who, while unelected, establish many policies that financially impact hardworking families. As major proponents of House Bill 2648, AFP-KS established early on in its legislative agenda that Kansas lawmakers should enact legislation authorizing legislative approval of agency regulations […]
By Dominic Nordel As our activists talk to voters on doorsteps, we hear concerns about big government and the impact of Bidenomics. A frequent concern is those big government handouts benefiting China. Ironically, China is the case study for failed top-down government policies. The Biden Administration’s industrial policies emulate the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) practice […]
Lansing, Michigan—Americans for Prosperity-Michigan (AFP-MI), the largest grassroots organization in the Great Lake State, issued a stinging rebuke of the Growing Michigan Together Council’s report on how to grow Michigan’s population. Governor Gretchen Whitmer convened the council earlier this year to address Michigan’s anemic population growth as Michiganders flee the state. Among the Council’s recommendations […]
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania—On Tuesday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro announced he would appeal a Commonwealth Court decision which found that former Governor Tom Wolf acted outside his constitutional authority to enter Pennsylvania into the interstate carbon tax scheme known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The Court found that RGGI participation amounts to a tax, which […]
Americans for Prosperity Foundation filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Corner Post, Inc. v. The Federal Reserve, urging the Court to allow Corner Post’s challenge to a 2011 debit-fees regulation that Corner Post believes to be beyond the Board’s power. The question presented may seem dry: when does a business’s legal […]
Laws should protect lives and livelihoods, not squelch them. But that’s not what was happening in Iowa in 2017. Waterloo resident William Burt had saved tens of thousands of dollars and written a business plan for a mobile barbershop to serve residents of underserved communities. He wanted to help people who could not get to […]
ICYMI: AFP-WI State Director Megan Novak Testifies Against Utility Rate Hikes Madison, WI — Today, Americans for Prosperity – Wisconsin (AFP-WI) State Director Megan Novak testified at the Wisconsin Senate Committee on Utilities and Technology hearing in opposition to Senate Bill 481: an incumbent transmission facility owner’s right to construct, own, and maintain certain transmission facilities and Public […]
Phoenix, Arizona—Yesterday, the Biden Administration proposed fundamental changes to U.S. mining laws that would decimate the existing U.S. mining industry and subsequently disrupt the U.S. supply chain for critical mineral production and manufacturing. The proposal would create a variable tax on hard rock minerals extracted from federal lands and create a mine leasing system with more […]
Arlington, VA – Today, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) released a new study profiling the harmful impact of overregulation on more than 30 stalled energy infrastructure projects across the country. These projects remain in limbo despite energy costs near all-time highs and projections that indicate demand will steadily increase over the next decade. The analysis, conducted with the […]
