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This week, we sat down with Sarah Field, Americans for Prosperity’s vice president of judicial strategy, to discuss AFP’s grassroots efforts to confirm President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Field elaborated on Judge Kavanaugh’s qualifications, experience and judicial philosophy and underscored the importance of seating principled jurists to the bench. Watch the full […]
Arlington, VA – Americans for Prosperity today expressed support for a rule jointly proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to reform The Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency standards (CAFE) and revoke a rule from the previous administration granting California’s authority to regulate automobile greenhouse gas emissions under the […]
Arlington, Va. – Americans for Prosperity urged the Trump administration today to abandon reported plans to significantly increase tariffs of 10 percent on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods to 25 percent. Escalating tariffs in this manner would spark further retaliation, fueling the trade war that continues to play out on the world stage. AFP President […]
Arlington, VA – Americans for Prosperity today submitted a formal comment to the Department of Health and Human Services expressing support for a proposed rule [42 CFR 447.10(g)(4)], which would ensure taxpayer dollars used to fund Medicaid go where they were intended, to those caring for neediest in society, instead of to union coffers. AFP is also encouraging activists […]
Arlington, VA – Americans for Prosperity praised a new rule from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) extending short-term, limited-duration (STLD) insurance plans. The rule change will allow STLD plans to be extended from three months to a maximum of thirty-six months. These plans provide an option for millions of Americans who have […]
On July 12, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a notice of proposed rule making to end union dues-skimming perpetrated against home healthcare providers who receive state subsidies from Medicaid for their work. Before 2014, many states that weren’t right-to-work unfairly classified home healthcare providers — most of whom provide care to their friends and family members — […]
Americans for Prosperity Director of Policy Akash Chougule | The Hill America is drastically different than it was in the 1940s, but there’s one thing that has remained largely the same — federal labor laws. The last time Congress passed major labor law reform was the Taft-Hartley Act over 70 years ago. All that changed […]
This year, the U.S. Senate has an enormous opportunity to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a principled jurist who will defend the Constitution and the rule of law, to the Supreme Court. Americans for Prosperity’s Vice President of Judicial Strategy Sarah Field outlines Judge Kavanaugh’s qualifications in her recent piece in The Hill: Judge Kavanaugh could […]
Grassroots groups will put the heat back on lawmakers to freeze discretionary spending for FY2019. Arlington, Va. – Americans for Prosperity is announcing plans to launch a major new grassroots effort to educate the public on the dangers of the federal government’s chronic overspending, and urge lawmakers to put discretionary spending on ice for 2019 […]
