April 24, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for taking a stand against anti-Semitism at Columbia University:

“Speaker Johnson’s bold decision to travel to New York City to meet with Jewish students at Columbia University facing Hamas supporters’ violent intimidation matters.

“It matters because the Biden administration’s virtual silence in the wake of Hamas-loving students verbal and physical violence against their fellow Jewish students encourages the growth of the vile anti-Semitism that Americans overwhelmingly reject.

“Johnson’s moral clarity matters because it stands in direct contrast to the Biden team which has its finger in the wind to measure whether large clusters of Muslim voters in Michigan and Minnesota will refuse to vote for him if he takes simple action like identifying, revoking student visas and deporting foreign students participating in these third world acts of terror.

“At a time when our politicians seem more enamored with YouTube hits than leading, I find hope in Speaker Mike Johnson’s stand with Jewish students who face hate fueled at least in part by those like Joe Biden who stand aside while this anti-American wildfire runs rampant over many of our nation’s college campuses.”

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March 20, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in opposition of the EPA’s electric vehicle regulation:

“Let’s be clear, the new Biden EPA regulation is a virtual mandate on industry to sell only Electric Vehicles whether the public wants them or not.

“The 70 percentage target for EV sales the Biden regulation would require automakers to meet by 2032 (eight years away) is in every respect a mandate. A mandate which becomes almost impossible given that consumer demand for Electric Vehicles has plummeted.  Ford Motor Company aggressively invested in an EV automotive future over the past ten years, yet they have had to dramatically slow the manufacture of vehicles as their customers don’t want them.

“This regulation is just another example of an out of control Biden bureaucracy attempting to control private markets through coercion, and under the regulatory standard set by the Supreme Court in West Virginia v. EPA, is clearly unconstitutional.  The Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to pick automotive winners and losers.

“Because the Courts are slow to act and Democrat control of the Senate makes it extremely difficult for the historically small GOP majority in the House to use the power of the purse to defund this and other regulatory overreaches, on January 20, 2025 at 12:01 pm, newly inaugurated President Donald J. Trump should act to immediately rescind this dangerous attempt to permanently alter the U.S. auto market through an unlawful mandate.”

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March 4, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to former South Carolina Republican Gov. Nikki Haley’s win in the Washington, D.C. presidential primary over former President Donald Trump:

“In a result that reconfirms why Democrat Special Counsel Jack Smith desperately wants to prosecute President Trump in Washington, D.C., the 1,300 Republican voters in the District voted 63 percent to 33 percent in favor of Nikki Haley for president.  It is fitting that Haley’s first and likely only win in her liberal money fueled presidential quest comes from the swamp itself. Obviously, the swamp hears and answers the call of its own kind, giving Haley a ‘victory’ even more dubious than many of her losses.”

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Feb. 28, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President today issued the following statement on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) stepping down from his Senate Republican leadership position in November:

“Senator McConnell’s decision to step down from his Senate Republican leadership post in November will hopefully embolden him and his staff to use these last few months to fight for a restoration of fiscal sanity, freedom and border security. Senator McConnell has an opportunity to at least partially restore his legacy by using his position to stop the flow of illegal aliens root and branch. If he instead chooses appeasement on the border, the budget and on Biden’s executive overreaches, it will cement his position as an establishment stumbling block against true reform. In the least, McConnell’s exit now clears the way for Senate Republicans to choose leadership who are going to work diligently to accomplish the Trump agenda in 2025.”

Attachments:

“Senate Minority Leader McConnell pushes for ‘clean appropriations and away from poison pills’ as House Speaker Johnson pushes to ‘rein in Democrats’ overspending and policies’ harming America,” By Robert Romano, Feb. 28, 2024 at https://dailytorch.com/2024/02/senate-minority-mcconnell-pushes-for-clean-appropriations-and-away-from-poison-pills-as-house-speaker-johnson-pushes-to-rein-in-democrats-overspending-and-policies/

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Get DOJ out of elections

Feb. 27, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to the U.S. House Judiciary, Oversight and Ways and Means Committees’ Feb. 12 letter urging the release of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interviews with President Joe Biden:

“Special Counsel Robert Hur made specific allegations against President Joe Biden that he was ‘elderly man with a poor memory’ who couldn’t stand trial. This unnecessary allegation by the Special Counsel is an effective kill shot against the Biden campaign and the release of transcripts of Hur’s interviews with Biden are necessary to determine its truthfulness.

“Since 2016, the Department of Justice has played a major role in our presidential elections and it must be ended. It was not James Comey’s job to lay out the case against Hillary Clinton, and then say she was unprosecutable, nor was it their job to give credence to politically motivated Russia collusion charges against candidate and then President Trump.

“Today, the Department of Justice finds itself running a dubious set of cases against former President Trump, and the Hur investigation of Biden’s handling of classified documents prior to his presidency went well beyond the facts to question Biden’s fitness for office. America has fallen away from the core principles of elective, representative government as we are now subjected to the Justice Department acting as both opposition researchers and legal shields in the presidential election process. This is dangerous and the special counsel regulations need to be revised or rescinded.”

Attachments:

“Will the American people determine if Biden and Trump run for president—or the permanent state? Special Counsel Hur questions Biden’s ‘poor memory’ while Special Counsel Smith tries to lock up Trump,” By Robert Romano, Feb. 9, 2024 at https://dailytorch.com/2024/02/will-the-american-people-determine-if-biden-and-trump-run-for-president-or-the-permanent-state-special-counsel-hur-questions-bidens-poor-memory-while-special-counse/

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Feb. 20, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting former Gov. Nikki Haley after she stated “South Carolina will vote on Saturday. But on Sunday, I’ll still be running for president. I’m not going anywhere.”:

“Nikki Haley says she’s ‘not going anywhere.’ She’s correct. Her campaign for the Republican nomination is dead as GOP voters are overwhelmingly rejecting her. Haley’s determination to play the role of wrecking ball on behalf of Joe Biden is evidence that she is nothing more than a mouthpiece for big money uniparty donors.

“It is both instructive and distressing that Haley chooses to embrace the Department of Justice and intelligence agencies’ abuses of power against former President Donald Trump and the American people. Her acceptance of Biden’s censorship and prosecution of political opponents makes her unfit to be elected dog catcher let alone serve as president.

“Biden’s censorship regime is nothing more than a symptom of the disease that afflicts our country, a corporate-government axis that obliterates the First, Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. This axis fears Donald Trump and his determination to both drain their controlled swamp and end their bid for tyrannical one-party rule. Nikki Haley’s vow to continue in the race despite embarrassing losses is little more than an endorsement of Joe Biden’s reelection and serves as a permanent indictment on her character and judgment.”

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Feb. 16, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to New York City Judge Arthur Engoron fining former President Donald Trump and the Trump Organization over $350 million over property valuations:

“The political persecution of President Donald Trump by partisan prosecutors and judges continued today in New York, where ‘Judge’ Arthur Engoron fined Donald Trump and the Trump Organization more than $350 million and barred him from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation for three years over a financial fraud claim.

“The claim came down to an alleged misevaluation of his properties by Trump to banks who loaned him money. In court, representatives of the banks testified that they conducted their own valuations (as happens with every property loan) and made the loans based upon those valuations, thus showing zero harm.  What’s more the Trump valuations approximated the banks own valuations of the property, which were dramatically divergent from the valuations ascribed by the Attorney General office of New York.  Likewise, Florida real estate experts testified that the Mar a Lago estate’s value far exceeded what was claimed by the New York Attorney General.  In spite of the bank claiming no harm, and their testimony that the loans given were repaid in full including interest, the judge found Trump guilty and fined him $350 million.  It is hard to imagine any reasonable person doing business with the state of New York in the future given the pure injustice of this decision and penalty.

“The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution protects individuals from government taking of property.  President Trump has promised to appeal the decision.  For the sake of the future economic viability of the state of New York, this political confiscation of Donald Trump’s properly owned, maintained and financed properties must be overturned. Even partisan Democrat politicians have to understand that no one of sound mind can justify putting their wealth at risk of political confiscation as has happened to former President Trump in this case.  The fact that this case even was allowed to be considered is a deep scar on the Empire State and should force every corporation which has significant assets in the state to engage in self-examination of whether having a spot on the New York City skyline is worth risking their entire company’s and personal wealth if they fall on the wrong political side of pernicious and venal local and state prosecutors working in concert with a political hack on the bench.”

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Feb. 12, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement marking the three-year anniversary of the State Department’s announcement that the Houthis would no longer be considered a terrorist organization:

“Three years ago today, the U.S. State Department and the Biden administration announced that they were revoking the terrorist designation of the Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. One month ago, the United States and the British bombed Houthi rebels is bombing the Houthis in retaliation for their attacks on cargo ships on the Red Sea heading to and from the Suez Canal. The Suez Canal handles 30 percent of the entire world’s sea-going container traffic.

“While the Biden administration seems to have forgotten this three-year anniversary which opened the door to Iran’s funding of its terror network in Yemen, it would be a shame if the rest of the world forgot about how kowtowing to Iran has made the world a much more dangerous place. Just another Biden blunder – shrinking America’s prestige, power and dollar one screw up at a time.”

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