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The Pentagon’s Europe force posture review is a critical opportunity for the Trump administration to turn its burden-shifting rhetoric into durable policy by reducing America’s military footprint on the continent. A meaningful drawdown would better align U.S. deployments with strategic priorities while pressing European allies to take greater responsibility for their own defense.
“Medicare for All” promises free, universal health care, but government-run monopolies inevitably produce rationing, long waits, lower quality, and massive taxpayer costs. Instead, may we suggest a “triple shield” of affordable portable insurance, direct primary care, and expanded health savings accounts to restore choice, competition, transparent prices, and timely access to care?
Simple legislative fixes, such as implementing hard deadlines for agencies to complete reviews, using consistent and objective standards for review, and ensuring any litigation is for direct harm, not proposed harm, would vastly reduce the time, and cost, to bring new energy projects online, thus lowering the cost of energy across the board.
As we celebrate 250 years of independence, it’s time states let that freedom ring in health care, too. Repealing certificate of need laws is a small but meaningful first step.
Despite past success in passing sunset laws—16 states currently have a limited regulatory sunset requirement and six states have a comprehensive regulatory sunset requirement—the most recent sunset law was passed a decade ago when West Virginia passed a law in 2016. Last year three states made strong efforts to pass such laws, but all fell short.
The Iran supplemental is not paid for, too broad, and far too light on detail. It sends the wrong message about U.S. interests and Congressional authority, and it lacks safeguards against further unauthorized hostilities. Unless major changes address these issues, Congress should reject the package.
In 2025, Americans for Prosperity helped four state legislatures pass bills ending judicial deference: Missouri, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Texas. This year, AFP continued building on this successful effort, with four more states ending judicial deference and a two other states coming oh-so close.
2026 saw several states act to protect their citizens and businesses from overregulation and return power to their legislative branches.
The Fourth of July is a celebration of America’s independence, the conscious decision to remove itself from a distant country that taxed and regulated, without representation. Two hundred fifty years later, Americans are still fighting a lesser version of that same battle, but that adversary is an overly complex regulatory regime that added billions in green energy mandates to household utility bills, and a tax code that picked energy winners and losers regardless of what the market or the consumer actually needed.
