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RICHMOND, VA—Americans for Prosperity-Virginia (AFP-VA) today congratulates Virginia’s newly elected Governor, Glenn Youngkin. Youngkin earned the support of AFP-VA for his commitment to increasing economic opportunity, expanding educational freedom, and improving health care for all Virginians. The grassroots group threw its full support behind Youngkin, reaching nearly 900,000 voters at the door and on the […]
Michigan’s hospitals are suffering a crisis of capacity as the COVID-19 Delta variant sweeps the state. In part, writes Annie Patnaude, state director of Americans for Prosperity Foundation-Michigan, in an op-ed for The Detroit News, the state’s certificate-of-need laws are to blame. These laws, Patnaude writes, “forbid health care providers from expanding their facilities, purchasing new equipment — including hospital […]
Stresses Floridians Don’t Need State’s Targeted Ads TALLAHASSEE, F.L. – Today, Americans for Prosperity-Florida (AFP-FL) weighed in on the Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee’s decision to advance SB 434, a bill that would delay the scheduled repeal of Florida’s Tourism and marketing organization, known as Visit Florida. The grassroots group highlights the need for the government […]
People want to know what the law is. It’s a fundamental part of any free society—we should know exactly what rules apply to us, and what rules apply to the government. That is why the idea of having a body of “secret law” is offensive to our constitutional system of government. But what if I […]
JOHNSON CITY, TN – Americans for Prosperity – Tennessee (AFP-TN) announced today that Former Legislator and Policy Champion Micah Van Huss has joined the organization as Grassroots Engagement Director in the Tri-Cities. Van Huss released the following statement on joining AFP-TN: “When I ran for the State Legislature in 2012, I was concerned about government […]
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who has famously suggested that 75 is about the right age to die, recently took to the pages of Politico to argue that if we allow the government to control the price of prescription drugs, “we will still have robust innovation.” But the primary example the 64-year-old Dr. Emanuel uses to make […]
House and Senate leaders are scrambling to save their $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation by cutting back on its contents. Things are not going well. As lawmakers negotiated to reduce the scope of the massive spending plan, Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema continues to oppose key provisions, including the bill’s tax increases, and West Virginia Sen. Joe […]
Lawmakers should focus on projects related to infrastructure, writes Erica Jedynak, Senior Advisor for Americans for Prosperity, in an op-ed for Insider NJ, rather than their partisan pet projects. Congress’ so-called infrastructure package — once projected to cost $3.5 trillion, as Jedynak notes, but now slimmed down to around $1.75 trillion — seems “only vaguely related to infrastructure.” She argues lawmakers should reject this spending plan, which would hurt New […]
Public accommodations laws “help ensure a free and open economy.” Traditionally, public accommodations laws have been applied to, well, public accommodations, such as hotels, or “what the old common law promised to any member of the public wanting a meal at the inn, that accepting the usual terms of service, they will not be turned […]
