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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. […]
House lawmakers may have been vacationing this August, but their constituents have not rested. At Americans for Prosperity events across the country, voters have continued to demand that policymakers oppose Washington’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure boondoggle and Senator Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) $3.5 trillion “human infrastructure” budget resolution. House lawmakers could vote on these two pieces of legislation this week. They should listen to the thousands of Americans who, since May, have been raising […]
Arlington, Va. – AFP President Tim Phillips issued the following statement in response to congressional leaders’ successful efforts to sneak the $3.5 trillion budget resolution into a procedural vote instead of bringing it to the floor for an up or down vote. Speaker Pelosi had previously tried this maneuver Monday evening but failed following pushback […]
Dear Representative, On behalf of Americans for Prosperity activists in all 50 states, I urge you to vote “NO” on S. Con. Res. 14, Senator Sanders’ Budget Resolution for FY2022. Senator Bernie Sanders’ budget resolution is little more than a “shell” to expedite approval of the second piece of President Biden’s so-called “infrastructure” proposal, a […]
Updated on January 25, 2022 to include the news that AFP Foundation’s FOIA lawsuit spurred CMS to release — for the first time ever — state-level Medicaid improper payment data. Eric Bolinder had spotted a problem. A big one. He and his team of policy experts at Americans for Prosperity’s sister organization, Americans for Prosperity […]
The federal government is currently exploring increasing taxes on capital gains that would squash the ability of Americans to save and invest. President Biden has proposed increasing the top capital gains tax rate from 23.8 percent to 43.4 percent when including the 3.8 percent net investment income tax. When factoring in state and local capital […]
Nearly 40 percent of the new spending in Senator Bernie Sanders’ proposed $3.5 trillion “infrastructure” plan would go to expanding government-funded health insurance. Believe it or not, that $1.3 trillion in new health care spending is bigger than Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act. About 40 percent bigger, in fact. And the purpose […]
