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Arlington, Va. – Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips issued the following statement in response to the plan proposed by the House Ways and Means Committee to increase taxes by $3 trillion to “pay for” Sen. Bernie Sanders’ $3.5 trillion reconciliation spending spree: “Virtually everything Americans buy is getting more expensive, businesses are operating at […]
It’s been 20 years since one of the most harrowing moments in U.S. history: the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This weekend, we pause to remember those who lost their lives, and to honor the first responders and military members who put their lives on the line following the attacks. I wanted to share my personal story […]
Arlington, Va. – Americans for Prosperity CEO Emily Seidel issued the following statement in response to President Biden’s executive order requiring private businesses with over 100 employees to mandate COVID-19 vaccines or weekly testing: “Vaccines are a crucial component of ending this pandemic. But government-imposed mandates will only further divide the country and the trust […]
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 […]
