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Americans for Prosperity Foundation recently filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Consumers’ Research v. Federal Communications Commission, urging the Court to grant Consumers Research’s cert petition and enforce the Constitution’s system of checks and balances. At issue is the constitutionality of the Universal Service Fund, a social welfare program that subsidizes […]
Ad part of AFP’s new six-figure push to pass legislation that would enact site neutral payment policies in Medicare. Arlington, Va. – Today, Americans for Prosperity announced the release of a new ad urging lawmakers on Capitol Hill to end unfair billing in Medicare by enacting site neutral payment reform. “Why does Medicare pay hospital […]
ATLANTA, GA – Today, following the announcement from the Senate Study Committee on Certificate of Need Reform recommending a full repeal of Georgia’s Certificate of Need (CON) laws, Americans for Prosperity – Georgia (AFP-GA) is applauding the decision and calling on lawmakers to follow the Committee’s recommendations in the upcoming legislative session. AFP-GA State Director […]
Wichita, KS–In case you missed it, Americans for Prosperity-Kansas (AFP-KS) held several events in Garden City, Liberal, and Dodge City last Thursday and Friday to discuss the economic challenges many Kansans are faced with as a result of Bidenomics and the current administration’s failed economic policies. In addition to these events, AFP-KS was in Wichita […]
President Abraham Lincoln in many ways embodied the American dream. He came from humble beginnings yet rose to the highest office in the land. Born at a time when Black Americans were enslaved, he helped lead the charge to bring them into that dream. He was elected leader of a nation that was tearing itself […]
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 […]
Nearly 180,000 Points of Citizen Outreach Made Since August Baton Rouge, LA—Americans for Prosperity-Louisiana (AFP-LA) celebrated the wins of three additional endorsed candidates this weekend, including one previously supported candidate who faced a runoff from the primaries. This brings the total to 17 State House and Senate seats won by AFP-LA endorsed candidates this cycle, in addition to […]
