A Lookback on AFP’s 2025 Policy Successes

In 2025, Americans for Prosperity helped deliver transformational reforms that lowered costs, expanded opportunity, and limited government overreach for everyday people across the nation. Here’s a snapshot of what we accomplished for the American people this year. 

Limiting Government Overreach 

What we did: Protected civil society and donor privacy so more people can engage in the public sphere, confident that their privacy will be protected.
Wins: Supported bills to protect donor privacy in 3 states, while bills that would have harmed donor privacy were stopped in 12 states. AFP played a particularly influential role in Virginia, where 12 harmful bills were stopped.
Why it matters: Strong privacy protections encourage more giving, greater civic engagement, and freer expression. 

Increasing Choice in Education 

What we did: Expanded education freedom so families can choose what works best for their children.
Wins: Transformational school choice wins in 8 states, with 6 states establishing or expanding Education Savings Accounts (ESA). Idaho created universal school choice via a refundable education tax credit. Nevada expanded choice through open enrollment. AFP-TX successfully campaigned for a historic school choice expansion, which established the largest ESA program in the nation.
Why it matters: When funding follows the student, families can customize learning to meet their needs, and great schools compete to serve them well.  

Making Health Care Accessible 

What we did: Removed barriers to affordable, accessible health care. 

Wins: Helped pass the Working Families Tax Cut (WFTC) act to give millions more Americans access to health savings accounts (HSA), allow HSA dollars to be used for Direct Primary Care (DPC) memberships, and make telehealth flexibility permanent for high-deductible health plans. At the state level, AFP helped pass 7 Certificate of Need (CON) reforms and 5 foreign physician licensure bills. Wyoming repealed CON entirely.
Why it matters: When patients and providers have more freedom in health care, access increases, quality improves, and prices fall. 

Lowering Taxes & Spending 

What we did: Advanced pro-growth tax reform to let workers and businesses keep more of what they earn.
Wins: WFTC made permanent the broad tax cuts enacted under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. States followed suit with 7 additional pro-growth reforms. For instance, Kansas adopted a transformational plan moving corporate and individual income taxes toward a 4% flat rate. WFTC also phased out or reduced the wasteful and distortionary IRA green energy subsidies.
Why it matters: Lower, simpler, and more neutral taxes encourage economic growth, job creation, higher wages, and greater economic freedom. 

Increasing Energy Competition 

What we did: Stood up for affordable, reliable energy by opening markets to competition. 
Wins: Right of First Refusal (ROFR) laws failed to advance in 5 states, and AFP helped to repeal Montana’s ROFR, ending regulatory veto power over new transmission competition.
Why it matters: Competitive energy markets lower costs and facilitate build-out where consumers need it.  

Unleashing Housing Abundance 

What we did: Tackled the housing shortage with supply-side zoning and land-use reform.
Wins: 8 states enacted reforms—such as allowing accessory dwelling units (ADUs), missing middle housing, reduced parking mandates, and faster permitting—that remove regulatory barriers to building more homes. AFP had a noticeable impact in New Hampshire, where 10 bills passed to ease restrictions on home building. 
Why it matters: Allowing more homes to be built where people want to live helps make housing more affordable. 

Easing Regulatory Barriers 

What we did: Advanced regulatory reform to ensure accountability, transparency, and smarter rulemaking across the government.
Wins: Enacted 60+ regulatory reforms across more than 30 states, including REINS Act reforms in 6 states (Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming). This strengthens legislative oversight of major regulations and helps catalyze discussions around a federal REINS Act. 
Why it matters: Requiring elected officials to approve costly regulations keeps unelected bureaucrats in check, limits overreach, and ensures the government remains accountable to the public.

As the new year and the start of state sessions approaches, we’re excited to build on these successes to continue working for the American people. 

 Nicholas Huff is an policy intern at the Americans for Prosperity.