Dec. 7, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging President Joe Biden to fire Defense Secretary Austin Lloyd over threatening Congress over Ukraine funding, telling members that if funding wasn’t approved “we’ll send your uncles, cousins and sons to fight Russia”:

“It is a crime to intimidate members of Congress in pursuit of legislation, and even President Joe Biden should be able to see the extreme danger created by Secretary Austin’s threat of involuntary, targeted conscription of members’ relatives to fight Russia if Ukraine funding is not approved. If President Biden wants to put U.S. troops in Ukraine, he has to go to Congress for authorization. Funding for Ukraine should not be considered due to Lloyd’s threat until Biden administration explains their Ukraine strategy and an endgame that doesn’t result in a war with Russia, which Biden has previously stated is off the table.”

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Oct. 23, 2023, Fairfax, Va.–Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting President Joe Biden for removing the terrorist designation for Iranian-funded Houthi terrorists in Yemen:

“One of Joe Biden’s first acts as President was to remove the terrorist designation of the Iranian funded Houthi terrorists in Yemen, allowing them to get money from around the world.  That disastrous decision has led to an on-going civil war in Yemen and now, with missiles being fired by the Houthis at Israel.  Joe Biden has done more to make certain that Iranian sponsored terrorists thrive than any president in history.  Now, he wants to pretend he is a peacemaker.  The sad part is that he actually believes that he is doing the right thing with many of these decisions. The reality is that the Biden foreign policy is only consistent in one regard, he is unfailingly wrong with the result being a weakened America in a much more dangerous world.  Congress needs to act to force the Biden administration to reinstate the terrorist designation on the Islamist radical Houthis in Yemen, and quit trying to buy love from those who look at the United States as the Great Satan.”

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Feb. 17, 2023, Fairfax, Va.–Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning issued the following statement in favor of legislation being offered by U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) that would increase new oil production and gasoline refineries production and construction:

“President Joe Biden urged energy companies to reinvest in new oil production and refining in his State of the Union address.  Rep. Lauren Boebert has introduced legislation which will help accomplish his newfound interest in increased domestic oil and natural gas production.  Boebert’s bill would increase federal government approvals of applications to drill and extend the time approved applications are valid from two to four years. Rep. Boebert is reaching across the partisan divide to give the President basic common sense legislation that he should be able to support in his recent quest for more oil and natural gas domestic development.  Let’s see if Joe was just blowing smoke or if he has finally come to the realization that dependency on countries that may not like us very much for oil and natural gas is dangerous both economically and for our national security.”

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April 1, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement on the latest jobs numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that noted a 5.6 percent increase in average hourly earnings, which is still not keeping up with the current 7.9 percent consumer inflation rate:

“Buried deep in the March jobs report is the punchline which pulls the rug out from under any happy talk about the Biden economy. To quote the Bureau of Labor Statistics summary, ‘Average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 13 cents to $31.73 in March. Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings have increased by 5.6 percent.’

“Sounds like good news right?  In the past year average hourly earnings have increased by 5.6 percent. Only one problem: the same BLS reported two weeks ago that in February the cost of living grew by 7.9 percent over the previous year.

“So, April Fools! The 5.6 percent reported raise received by Americans is actually a real wage cut of 2.3 percent. That’s right, the harder you work in the Biden economy the less your money buys.

“Everyone knew that Joe Biden’s political career began in the early 1970s, but no one expected him to go back to the future by transforming our 21st century economy into the vicious wage-price spirals of the decade that brought us disco.”

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Correction: The real wage cut for Americans was 2.3 percent the past year, not 1.3 percent.

March 2, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Senate voting on a Congressional Review Act rescission of President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates:

“The Senate just completed another ‘show vote’ on ending the Biden vaccine mandates. The Senate GOP has the power to end the vaccine mandates by simply insisting that their enforcement is defunded in the upcoming Omnibus government spending bill.  If the vaccine mandate continues to be funded it will be because the Senate GOP chose to fund it, and having fake votes with no chance of passing will not provide any political cover.  This is a time for choosing, not a time for dodging responsibility — Senate Republicans need to defund the vaccine mandates or explain why they chose to fund them.”

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