Policy Corner

Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFP Foundation) filed a public comment on how certificate-of-need (CON) laws harm patients and stifle innovation in the health care industry. AFP Foundation submitted the comment to the Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s newly launched Anticompetitive Regulations Task Force (Task Force).

APF believes that practical solutions can be identified that move our nation forward as we continue to build a resilient electric grid while meeting the increased demand from large loads and AI.

The goal of pro-growth tax reform is to broaden the tax base and lower the overall tax rate. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act fulfilled this by eliminating many tax subsidies and carve outs that skewed towards benefiting high earners. The existing tax code is rife with provisions that reduce prosperity. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) was the first effort in decades to comprehensively address this problem. It deserves to be permanently extended. TCJA was a tax reform package aimed at spurring economic growth, not simply reshuffling the federal tax burden. It provided broad benefits across American society by: Lowering the corporate income tax from 35 to 21 percent making U.S. companies much more internationally competitive. Anyone working for or investing in an American corporation benefited from this rate cut. TCJA also slashed individual income tax rates across-the-board, improving incentives to work, save and invest. As more workers enter the labor force there is less reliance on public assistance and government spending falls, lowering everyone’s tax bills. More workers also means more goods and services which provide more choices and lower prices. The key to higher wages is higher productivity. Increased savings means a larger pool […]

D.C. is abuzz for the first time in many decades with talk about the need to examine government efficiency and how taxpayer dollars are being spent. Through the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), there is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the Trump Administration and Congress to capitalize on that momentum to support the top U.S. economic driver: small businesses.

Congress should take the opportunity before it to repeal the IRA in its entirety, using appropriate projected changes in spending, revenues, and the debt limit, to pay for the extension of the tax cuts in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

A recent investigation by the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General (OIG) confirms what veterans, whistleblowers, and Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s previous investigations have been sounding the alarm on for years: VA leaders are deliberately rigging the system to block veterans from accessing Community Care.

Members of Congress are moving to repeal President Joe Biden’s lame-duck attempt to unilaterally purge medical debt from credit reports, a naïve idea that would do little to solve its underlying causes.

This document sheds light on a few of the high priority regulatory process reforms that are available to states.

Costs are high, lines are long, and paths to treatments and services are convoluted. What Americans need at this very moment is flexibility.

Americans for Prosperity submits these comments to the “WOTUS Notice: The Final Response to SCOTUS; Establishment of a Public Docket; Request for Recommendations” published March 24, 2025 in the Federal Register by the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers (“Corps”).