President Biden reduces transparency of agency rules
May 7, 2021

On his first day in office, President Joseph Biden issued an executive order revoking several of his predecessor’s executive orders designed to bring greater transparency and fairness to federal regulations. In the order, Biden directed all executive branch agencies to rescind “any orders, rules, regulations, guidelines, or policies” deriving from those executive orders he revoked. […]

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Americans for Prosperity Press Release
AFP Statement on April Job Numbers
May 7, 2021

Arlington, Va. – Americans for Prosperity Senior Policy Analyst Austen Bannan issued the following statement on today’s jobs report showing the economy added only 266,000 jobs, well below economists’ expectations: “These job numbers show we can’t take economic recovery for granted. Our economy is moving in the right direction, but the better way to speed […]

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New Mexico qualified immunity reform makes government officials accountable for actions
May 7, 2021

On April 7, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law HB 4, the New Mexico Civil Rights Act. The law provides an avenue for New Mexicans to file a lawsuit against government employees, including law enforcement officers, if they have had their constitutional rights violated. Additionally, the law explicitly prohibits the government from using […]

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AFP Key Vote Alert: The House Should Vote “NO” on S.J. Res. 14
May 6, 2021

Dear Member of Congress, On behalf of Americans for Prosperity activists in all 50 states, I urge you to vote “NO” on S.J. Res.14, a resolution of disapproval for reforms related to the regulation of oil and gas under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act (a companion resolution, H.J.Res.34 was introduced in the House). […]

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AFP signs coalition letter urging Congress to pass the Maximizing America’s Prosperity Act
May 6, 2021

The federal government is on an unsustainable fiscal path – and that’s particularly true for federal spending, specifically. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the share of our overall economy consumed by Washington is set to keep growing as far as the eye can see, unless Congress and the president act: If government spends more […]

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FDA should not revive discredited vaccine approval system
May 5, 2021

From start to finish, it took Pfizer, Moderna, and others less than a year to get their COVID-19 vaccines approved for use. Before Operation Warp Speed, it typically took eight to 17 years to bring a vaccine to market. Writing in the Washington Examiner, Dean Clancy, senior health policy fellow at Americans for Prosperity, says we […]

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Americans for Prosperity activates grassroots in support of spending restraint
May 5, 2021

There’s an explosion of spending going on in Washington, with lawmakers competing to waste today’s tax revenues and borrow even more from future generations. Before 2020, the federal government had never spent more than $4.5 trillion in a single fiscal year. But in 2020, Congress appropriated approximately $4 trillion just to address the coronavirus pandemic, […]

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Americans for Prosperity Press Release
AFP Launches New Ad Campaign on H.R. 3
May 4, 2021

Arlington, Va. – Today, Americans for Prosperity announced the launch of a new ad campaign aimed at protecting Americans’ access to prescription drugs by stopping H.R 3. While the goal of the legislation – lowering prescription drug prices – is laudable, the plan is deeply flawed and would cause far more harm than good, leading to […]

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New polling shows how small businesses might react if lawmakers pass the PRO Act
May 4, 2021

The Protecting the Right to Organize Act, now awaiting consideration in the Senate, would upend the livelihoods of countless independent contractors, freelancers, and gig workers across the country. The bill’s ABC test would allow the National Labor Relations Board to penalize businesses for hiring independent contractors. Then, PRO Act supporters hope, those businesses would hire […]

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