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Infrastructure focus should be on ending wasteful spending, reining in regulations Arlington, VA – Americans for Prosperity’s Chief Government Affairs Officer Brent Gardner issued the following statement today in response to the release of the president’s sweeping proposal to modernize our nation’s infrastructure. AFP’s Chief Government Affairs Officer Brent Gardner released the following statement: “As lawmakers […]
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 […]
Arlington, VA — As Congress and the administration continue the effort of updating and expanding our nation’s roads, bridges, airports and waterways, Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce today released a set of guiding principles aimed at promoting greater effectiveness, efficiency and accountability in any upcoming infrastructure improvement plan. President Trump will […]
In late 2017, Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed into law the most sweeping tax reforms in a generation. And now, many Oklahomans are seeing the benefits of those reforms in our paychecks. Countless posts on social media have recounted the surprise of many who discovered a little (or a lot) more on their […]
Harrisburg, Pa. – Americans for Prosperity-Pennsylvania (AFP-PA) on Friday thanked Senator Pat Toomey and Representatives Scott Perry, Keith Rothfus, Lloyd Smucker, Bob Brady, and Brendan Boyle for voting against the two-year budget, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018. This deal blows up spending caps enacted by the Budget Control Act of 2011 and massively increases spending by over $300 […]
HB7055 expands transparency and options for Florida students and teachers Tallahassee, FL – Americans for Prosperity-Florida (AFP-FL) is cheering on legislative leaders who stood boldly to pass an innovative education reform bill. HB7055 creates the Hope Scholarship, which allows alternative education options for victims of bullying and harassment across Florida. It promotes worker freedom by […]
Arlington, VA — Americans for Prosperity, Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, The LIBRE Initiative, Generation Opportunity and Concerned Veterans for American today issued a letter to congressional leaders announcing their opposition to a government spending bill that would open the floodgates to massive increases in government spending and billions of dollars in corporate welfare for […]
RICHMOND, Va. – Americans for Prosperity-Virginia (AFP-VA) on Wednesday expressed disappointment in members of the House Appropriations General Government & Capital Outlay Subcommittee for rejecting Delegate Michael Webert’s House Bill 242, which would have prohibited all taxpayer financing of professional sports stadiums. AFP-VA has consistently opposed stadium subsides, which the organization views as a form […]
Harrisburg, Pa. – Americans for Prosperity-Pennsylvania (AFP-PA) State Director Beth Anne Mumford on Tuesday released the following statement in response to Governor Tom Wolf’s budget address, in which he called for $1 billion in new spending: “Gov. Wolf should have given his budget address in Punxsutawney because it was like Groundhog Day, with Pennsylvanians reliving the […]
