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Arlington, VA – In response to Senator Manchin’s comments over the weekend confirming that he will not support the Biden administration’s Build Back Better reconciliation package, AFP Chief Government Affairs Officer Brent Gardner issued the following response: “From day one, Build Back Better was a go-it-alone, partisan collection of extreme elements of a far-left agenda in […]
In October, President Joe Biden called on the Port of Los Angeles to operate 24 hours per day, seven days per week. He also said the “rest of the private sector chain” now needs to step up, as well, to help goods move faster. “Our goal is not only to get through this immediate bottleneck,” he said, “but […]
In a pair of new op-eds, Dan Pearson, trade policy fellow at Americans for Prosperity, renewed steel tariffs and a U.S. trade deal with the European Union are both bad deals for the vast majority of Americans. Pearson stepped into the heart of steel country to respond to a commentary by U.S. Trade Representative Katherine […]
The congressional budget process is a mess, and the debate over the “Build Back Better” measure is Exhibit A, writes Americans for Prosperity Senior Fellow for Fiscal Policy Kurt Couchman in a new op-ed. “The taproot of this dysfunction is considering appropriations separately from direct (sometimes called mandatory) spending and revenue,” Couchman writes in The […]
Americans for Prosperity Foundation (“AFPF”) has sued the Federal Trade Commission to enforce a Freedom of Information Act request regarding the FTC’s decision to dramatically change federal antitrust policy. Attempting to open the administrative state’s “black box” Enacted in 1967, FOIA gives the public the right to request access to records from federal agencies. Agencies […]
Arlington, Va. – Americans for Prosperity Senior Fellow in Fiscal Policy Kurt Couchman issued the following statement on the latest Congressional Budget Office score of the “Build Back Better” plan, which estimates that the legislation will add $3 trillion to the federal debt if its programs become permanent and additional interest on the national debt is counted: “Claims that this multi-trillion dollar government expansion would be […]
The complaint seeks records involving the FTC’s decision, led by Chair Lina Khan, to rescind an agency policy statement supporting the decades-old consumer welfare standard.
Dear Representatives: On behalf of Americans for Prosperity activists in all 50 states, I urge you to vote “NO” on Rep. Kilmer’s Amendment #17 to H.R. 5314, the Protecting Our Democracy Act. The so-called “Honest Ads Act” creates unconstitutional restrictions on people’s ability to make their voices heard and hold politicians accountable. Its provisions would […]
Arlington, Va. – Today, Americans for Prosperity issued a statement ahead of President Joe Biden’s planned remarks around the need for legislation that reduces the cost of prescription drugs. “Despite recent modifications, the proposed drug price controls in President Biden’s multi-trillion spending bill will have deadly consequences,” said Dean Clancy, Senior Health Policy Fellow at […]
