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Should a child’s opportunity for education turn on the religious perspective of the child? Should it turn on the religious perspective of the school? What if the school is just a little bit religious? Or too religious? Would that matter? It would if the child lives in an area of Maine with no public school. […]
“The president’s plan is a government takeover of health care that would cause drug rationing,” said Dean Clancy, the organization’s senior health policy fellow. Arlington, Va. – Today, Americans for Prosperity issued a statement on the Biden administration’s newly unveiled plan to address the cost of prescription drugs. Most notably, the plan would allow the […]
Indiana basketball fans know that when an opponent scores an easy layup, it’s important to quickly sink a shot of your own. Basketball is a game of momentum. Just days after the U.S. House approved his $3.5 trillion budget boondoggle, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) was riding high and headed to West Lafayette, Indiana, to build support among skeptics. The momentum stopped as soon as the senator hit the […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders came to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, last week. Not as a presidential candidate (he has run for — and lost — the Democratic nomination two times), but as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. Sanders indicated he was worried people did not understand all that is in the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation. […]
Report shows Medicare’s hospital trust fund will run out of money in just five years Arlington, Va. – Today, Americans for Prosperity responded to the latest Social Security and Medicare Trustees report which cast a dire forecast on Medicare’s finances. Like last year’s trustees forecast and the one before it, the latest report projects that […]
Americans for Prosperity Foundation urges Supreme Court to allow judicial review of unconstitutional administrative actions and protect the separation of powers. Americans for Prosperity Foundation recently filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Axon Enterprise v. FTC, urging the court to grant Axon’s cert petition. In the Ninth Circuit, AFP Foundation also teamed up […]
Congress’ proposed “infrastructure” packages — the first worth $1.2 trillion and the follow-up, spearheaded by Senator Bernie Sanders, worth an additional $3.5 trillion — would hurt taxpayers, fund lawmakers’ partisan pet projects, and grow the federal government’s control over American health care, argue Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips and former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal in an op-ed for National Review. Senator Sanders’ […]
Medicaid’s improper payment rate jumped from 9 percent in 2018 to 21 percent in 2020, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. “That might seem like just one more big number from Washington, but it amounts to a whopping $143 billion,” wrote Americans for Prosperity Senior Policy Fellow Dean Clancy in an op-ed for The Hill, adding that these lost […]
College campuses and free speech are closely linked. Universities are where the next generation finds its voice and (hopefully) learns crucial lessons civil liberties —both how to exercise and defend them. With the 2021-2022 school year beginning, many students will be returning to physical classrooms for the first time in as many as 18 months. […]
