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What on earth does Harry Potter have to do with campus free speech?

Aug 3, 2022

It may still feel like summer, but some states have already started the new school year, and I’m in the middle of college tours and trying to cope with the reality that my oldest child will soon be choosing where to go. So free speech on campus is at the top of my mind at […]

How the Inflation Reduction Act would raise taxes while failing to reduce inflation

Aug 1, 2022

Updated September 2, 2022 On August 16, 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law the latest iteration of Washington’s tax-and-spend proposal called the Inflation Reduction Act. But don’t let the title fool you: the proposal would do anything but reduce inflation. Here are three major things it doesn’t do: ❌Reduce inflation ❌Bring down gas prices […]

Everyday Americans have been telling AFP staff how inflation is affecting their families. They've been doing this at True Cost of Washington food and gas rollback events where AFP staff, like these activists from Louisiana, have been dropping high prices caused by increasing inflation.

Everyday Americans share how historic inflation is affecting their families

Jul 29, 2022

Inflation is about more than economics. It’s about the lives of everyday Americans who are struggling with massive price increases at the pump and the grocery store while their incomes remain stagnant. Americans for Prosperity launched the True Cost of Washington Tour to talk to everyday Americans about how inflation is personally affecting them. Across […]

AFP Key Vote Alert: “NO” on CHIPS Act

Jul 28, 2022

Dear Members of Congress, On behalf of millions of Americans for Prosperity activists and supporters across the country, I urge you to vote “NO” on the CHIPS Act. This vote will be recorded in AFP’s 2022 legislative scorecard. The CHIPS Act purports to bolster the domestic semiconductor industry and fight perceived Chinese industrial dominance by spending $76 billion […]

Random Grab Bag of Corporate Welfare and Tax Hikes Does Nothing to Address Inflation

Jul 28, 2022

Arlington, VA – In response to this morning’s GDP data indicating -0.9% growth in Q2, which confirms two consecutive quarters of negative growth, and reports of a pending reconciliation deal between Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Joe Manchin, AFP Vice President of Government Affairs Akash Chougule issued the following statement: “When Americans feel like they […]

AFP Foundation joins coalition alongside Philanthropy Roundtable’s “True Diversity Statement of Principles”

Jul 27, 2022

Arlington, VA — Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFPF) President Emily Seidel joins fellow community-focused groups in signing onto Philanthropy Roundtable’s True Diversity Statement of Principles. True Diversity is Philanthropy Roundtable’s initiative to encourage diversity in the philanthropic sector that is grounded in two of America’s core values — liberty and individualism: “There is a yearning […]

To answer why inflation is increasing and combat the high cost of gas in 2022, AFP's True Cost of Washington Tour has been inviting lawmakers to join them at rollback events where staff and volunteers cut the price of gas and groceries for constituents.

Here’s what policymakers are saying about AFP’s True Cost of Washington Tour

Jul 26, 2022

As summer temperatures have spiked, so has U.S. inflation. To give Americans some relief from rising prices, Americans for Prosperity activists have traveled the country rolling back the cost of a gallon of gas to the price it was when President Joe Biden took office. “[It] was great to feel a bit of nostalgia after […]

Americans for Prosperity Opposes CHIPS Act Corporate Welfare

Jul 26, 2022

Arlington, VA – Americans for Prosperity Vice President of Government Affairs Akash Chougule issued the following statement urging defeat of the so-called CHIPS Act under consideration in Congress this week: “Poll after poll underscores what we are hearing firsthand at our ‘True Cost of Washington’ tour events across the country – the biggest problem facing […]

The CBO reports the health care spending in the "Build Back Better" bill is six times higher than advertised.

CBO: “Build Back Better” health spending would cost six times more than advertised

Jul 25, 2022

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has officially quantified the true likely cost and impact of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-New York) “Build Back Better” bill — and the numbers are staggering. At the heart of the bill is a proposed “temporary” two-year extension of Obamacare health insurance premium subsidies — subsidies that congressional Democrats […]

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