Trump’s Executive Order Marks a Key Step Toward Reining in the Defense Production Act
Mar 26, 2025

President Trump’s recent Executive Order rescinding the Biden Administration’s abuse of the Defense Production Act (DPA) is a welcome course correction—and a crucial reminder of why the DPA itself is in desperate need of reform.

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State Model Legislation: Public School Access and Transparency Act
Mar 26, 2025

A model bill to prevent the abuse of copyright claims by public records custodians and to ensure access to school learning materials.

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Waste Watch: Five Alarming Examples of Government Waste You Paid For
Mar 26, 2025

Over the past two months alone, audits and investigations published by Inspectors General have uncovered wasteful spending practices that cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars with little to no benefit and sometimes in direct violation of federal law.

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The Biden VA’s “Independent” Echo Chamber on Community Care
Mar 21, 2025

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Executive Roundtable, or Red Team report on the supposed “Urgent Need to Address Community Care Spending,” sold itself as an independent and authoritative report, but instead it was a conduit for the VA and the Biden Administration to publish its own views through third parties, wasting taxpayer dollars and government time in the process.

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How States Can Embrace the Principles of DOGE
Feb 11, 2025

Excessive regulations, lack of transparency, and restrictive laws hinder economic growth and limit opportunity nationwide. Here’s how states can embrace the principles of DOGE by enacting reforms that cut red tape, enhance transparency, and expand access to essential services.

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ICYMI: AFP sends letters to Congress supporting emergency powers reform
Sep 24, 2024

Last week, AFP sent letters to committees in both congressional chambers supporting bills that seek to rein in abuse of emergency powers. Both bills would amend the National Emergencies Act of 1976 (NEA) to give Congress greater oversight of the president’s emergency powers.

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Report: Permission to Care
Jan 31, 2024

How certificate of need laws harm patients

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Permission to Care: How Tennessee’s Certificate of Need Law Harms Patients and Stifles Health Care Innovation 
Jan 26, 2024

Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFPF), today, released a report revealing that Tennessee’s certificate of need (CON) law, over the last two decades, has denied $1.5 billion in new investment in the health care industry, adversely affecting patients in the Volunteer State.

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DHS still won’t reveal its alleged authorities to censor ‘misinformation’
Dec 19, 2023

Last week, two officials from the Department of Homeland Security lied, misled, and refused to answer questions about the agency’s alleged authority to censor “misinformation” in a hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability.

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