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Over the next few weeks, members of Congress will cast several votes that could add trillions to the U.S. national debt. President Joe Biden and supporters of the so-called “infrastructure” package— said to cost $3.5 trillion, but likely to exceed $5 trillion — claim their proposal will not harm the middle class. They are wrong. Inflation, taxes, and energy costs would all rise […]
Arlington, Va. – Americans for Prosperity (AFP) submitted public comments outlining its opposition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule to revise existing greenhouse gas emissions standards for light-duty vehicles for 2023 and later model years. These new burdensome vehicle regulations would reduce affordability for passenger vehicles, replace consumer preferences with politically preferred technology […]
Arlington, Va. – Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Senior Fellow of Fiscal Policy Kurt Couchman issued the following statement in advance of the Senate vote on a continuing resolution that would raise the debt limit. AFP believes the debt limit should be raised alongside reforms that would begin to fix the broken budget process. “Budget brinkmanship […]
The Biden-Sanders $3.5 trillion reconciliation package is a wasteful spending spree of long-standing partisan priorities that would bring the federal government into the middle of our everyday lives and fundamentally alter the trajectory of our country for the worse. President Biden and Senator Sanders need complete party unity to pass their spending package, and they’re in disarray […]
Arlington, Va. – Americans for Prosperity (AFP) unveiled a new multi-million dollar ad blitz to amplify its ongoing “End Washington Waste: Stop the Spending Spree” national grassroots mobilization campaign to drive opposition to the $4.7 trillion Biden-Sanders spending package, an historic tax-and-spend monstrosity that would lead to a government takeover of our everyday lives and […]
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has called for a “pause” on consideration of the $3.5 trillion spending package backed by his Senate Democratic leadership. In an op-ed in the Wheeling Intelligencer and News Record, Americans for Prosperity State Director Jason Huffman calls on him to go further. Manchin, writes Huffman, “should forget about trying to […]
Congress and the White House are struggling to come up with a plan to address the impending breach of the debt limit. But as Kurt Couchman, senior fellow for fiscal policy at Americans for Prosperity, writes in a new op-ed in The Hill, the debt limit is not so much a problem in itself as […]
For the first time in recent memory, inflation has become a major concern for many Americans. This year, families have seen the rising cost of groceries, gasoline, and other everyday goods. They’re worried about making ends meet. At the same time, Congress is considering Senator Bernie Sanders’ $3.5 trillion spending bill, to be paid for […]
America’s founding documents recognize that we all have inalienable rights and that government’s job is to protect those rights. But our history is full of times when important liberties have been infringed and our elected representatives had to enact new laws to set things right. This Constitution Day offers an opportunity to reflect on that. The Civil Rights […]
