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ARLINGTON, VA – Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is hosting a virtual event with U.S. Senator Mike Braun and AFP President Tim Phillips for a conversation on infrastructure. The Senate is scheduled for a procedural vote on the so-called Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework on Wednesday even though the bill has yet to be written. WHAT: Infrastructure Facebook […]
Arlington, Va. – Today, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer intends to file cloture to set up a procedural vote on Wednesday on the so-called Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework, which hasn’t been written yet. Americans for Prosperity (AFP) President Tim Phillips issued the following statement: “This ‘pass first, read later’ approach repeatedly produces legislation filled with unrelated […]
Nearly 300 unlikely allies—including the American Civil Liberties Union, the NAACP, the Human Rights Campaign, Becket Fund, PETA, and Institute for Justice—came together to defend free speech in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta. This month the U.S. Supreme Court decided the case, striking down California’s blanket demand to obtain lists of people who support nonprofit organizations. […]
As Congress and the White House go back and forth on the cost of an expensive partisan wish list packaged as an infrastructure proposal, Americans for Prosperity state directors and staff are working to steer their lawmakers away from this wasteful scheme and toward effective reforms. As Elizabeth Patton, state director of Americans for Prosperity-Kansas, explains in a […]
Arlington, Va.—Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is urging the Biden Administration to commute the sentences of individuals who were released from federal prison to home confinement under the CARES Act to maintain their status on home confinement instead of unnecessarily being sent back to prison. Americans for Prosperity Criminal Justice Fellow Greg Glod issued the following […]
The White House has promised President Joe Biden’s $4 trillion “family” and physical infrastructure plans will create jobs, strengthen communities, and help the country “build back better.” With a bipartisan deal on the table and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) insisting that a bill be on Senate floor by mid-July, policymakers are acting as if […]
The White House has launched a summertime effort to advance its $4 trillion infrastructure tax and spending package, but through Americans for Prosperity’s “End Washington Waste: Stop the Spending Spree” campaign, Americans have made it clear they oppose the president’s plan. Concerned citizens have sent more than 1 million letters to elected officials in Washington […]
As Congress and the White House go back and forth on the cost of an expensive partisan wish list packaged as an infrastructure proposal, Americans for Prosperity state directors and staff are working to steer their lawmakers away from this wasteful scheme and toward effective reforms. Illinoisans are all too familiar with profligate spending by government and the […]
Updated on July 7, 2022. On March 24, 2021, Americans for Prosperity-Tennessee State Director Tori Venable and Deputy State Director James Amundson worked late into the day at the Tennessee General Assembly cobbling together support for HB 948, a bill that would reform the state’s certificate-of-need laws, which have long blocked Tennesseans from accessing the […]
