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Educational freedom, pro-growth tax reform, and personalized health care are among the most important priorities being held back by federal and state governments’ wasteful spending and excessive debt. Effective budget targets can help policymakers do better and unleash even more American potential.
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.
Americans are frustrated with Congress. They see the festering bloat, discoordination, and waste and think Congress ignores obvious problems. The growing debt burden makes us poorer, crowds out other priorities, and threatens stagnation or worse.
Tomorrow marks the two-year anniversary of the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The law has had little impact on inflation but has had a big impact on the pharmaceutical industry; just not in the way that the Biden-Harris Administration would have you believe.
The government is always looking for an excuse to curtail users’ free speech online. Echoing growing concerns about the government’s role in policing social media, the Supreme Court waded into the debate by issuing decisions on seven First Amendment cases during the recently ended term.
Congress doesn’t make policy holistically. But it should. Today’s piecemeal process limits the ability of the people’s representatives to improve the structure and finance of the government’s activities.
Price controls for prescription drugs promise to do what everybody wants: bring down the cost of life-saving medications with no negative consequences – in other words, a free lunch.
Today, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) released a new economic report, responding to lawmakers’ attempts to dodge accountability for rubber-stamping President Biden’s economic policies by blaming businesses for increased consumer prices.