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The Biden Administration’s cancellation of the ANWR lease sale is a classic case of an out-of-control administrative state brute forcing its preferred policy outcome in open defiance of a bill passed by Congress and signed by the President.
The existing tax code is rife with provisions that encourage people to alter their behavior in socially harmful ways. Tax reform efforts differ from simple tax cutting by attempting to streamline the code and make it less economically destructive.
The federal tax system’s complex and convoluted structure results in it costing far more than the $5 trillion it annually extracts from taxpayers’ pocketbooks. Each year it effectively imposes hundreds of billions in additional surtaxes on the American people in the form of excess burdens, compliance costs, and administrative expenses.
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.
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.
Americans for Prosperity applauds Administrator Zeldin for these bold actions that will have a significant impact on the energy sector and will help our nation unleash energy abundance.
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.
As a part of efforts to make agencies more efficient and accountable, AFP sees President Trump’s Schedule F (Policy/Career) Policy as a building block for reforms.
Improving government efficiency is a critical endeavor that requires a concerted effort from Congress and not just the executive branch.
