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MANCHESTER, NH – State and national press covered Americans for Prosperity (AFP)’s ad and grassroots campaigns on driving opposition to eliminate the filibuster and President Biden’s $4 trillion “infrastructure” proposal. AFP-NH recently hosted an event featuring AFP President Tim Phillips as he discussed why U.S. Representative Chris Pappas and U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan need to […]
PHOENIX, AZ – Americans for Prosperity-Arizona (AFP-AZ) today announced the launch of a robust grassroots and ad campaign urging Representative Tom O’Halleran to oppose President Biden’s $4 trillion “infrastructure” proposal – a wasteful, partisan spending spree of counterproductive policies that have nothing to do with improving roads and bridges, paid for by one of the […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today launched a full-scale national grassroots campaign focusing on 27 lawmakers, including Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy (FL-7), in order to drive opposition to President Biden’s $4 trillion “infrastructure” proposal, a wasteful partisan spending spree of counterproductive policies that have nothing to do with improving roads and bridges, paid for by one of the largest […]
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, […]
After such a tough year for Minnesotans, state lawmakers ought to be doing everything in their power to make things better. Instead, they’re threatening to make things worse. Instead of enacting policies that would put money back into the hands of the people who earn it, the state House voted to raise billions in new […]
COLUMBIA, SC – Americans for Prosperity-South Carolina (AFP-SC) today praised the legislature for passing HB 3589, a bill gives school districts the option to implement schools of innovation that provide more flexible ways to educate South Carolina students. The bill now heads to Governor McMaster’s desk. Schools of innovation are private-public partnerships with public school […]
COLUMBIA, SC – As President Biden virtually visits South Carolina today, Americans for Prosperity-South Carolina (AFP-SC) today urged President Biden to reject a proposal of a so-called infrastructure package that has little to do with improving roads and bridges but would harm the economy and increase taxes on small businesses who are struggling to get back […]
The White House and leaders in Congress seem determined to pass a massive bill intended to boost “infrastructure,” at a spending level that’s unprecedented for such an effort. Unfortunately, it includes little spending actually related to infrastructure. This isn’t the first time in recent history that spending bills disguised as infrastructure bills have been criticized […]
