Recent News
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.
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed the Public School Access and Transparency Act (SB572) into law, marking a major victory for parents, students, and transparency advocates. The new law strengthens the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act by ensuring public access to the learning materials used in public schools.
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.
