Oct. 4, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to House Speaker Mike Johnson’s note that Congress has already appropriated an addition $20 billion for Hurricane Helene specifically, which President Joe Biden signed into law:

“The Biden-Harris administration Is lying to the American public when they claim that FEMA is out of money.  Speaker Mike Johnson just posted on X that, ‘Last Wednesday, I led Congress to provide $20 billion extra dollars (available immediately) to FEMA so they would have operational funds right now to respond to Helene.’

“Here is the truth.  Speaker Johnson, leading the House GOP, responsibly appropriated a massive amount of money to FEMA so they could immediately meet the hurricane emergency. Unfortunately, the Biden-Harris administration has not only been slow to respond, with anecdotal accounts of soldiers at Fort Bragg in North Carolina being denied leave to rescue their friends and neighbors in the Smoky Mountains. Rather than going into overdrive with a massive public-private search and rescue mission, the Biden-Harris administration has let the people of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina and Virginia down through their deadly failure to treat the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene as a major emergency.

“It is important for America to know that Congress did its job – they gave the Biden-Harris administration money to meet the immediate needs and the Harris team which Joe Biden has said is running the White House operation now, failed miserably.  Whether they failed due to incompetence or due to the utter contempt they hold for rural Trump voters, the deaths which have occurred as a result of their inaction are a black mark on our nation’s history.

“Not to put too fine a point over it, but sometimes it seems that this administration cares far more about lives lost in foreign countries than those lost here in America, and this disaster of a response is just more evidence that the Biden-Harris administration puts Americans last, and I for one am sick of it.”

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Sept. 25, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for fighting for the Six Penny Plan:

“Senator Rand Paul is one of the few Senators who are serious about the fiscal challenges facing America.  Quite simply, the current rate of government spending is unsustainable with interest payments on the debt for the first ten months of fiscal year 2024 reaching a staggering $763 billion fully $202 billion more than the same period the previous year. Net interest payments on the debt surpass every other spending category other than Social Security. It is astonishing that the fiscal apocalypse that we have worried about for decades is now upon us with even defense spending dwarfed by the cost of simply making interest payments on our $35 trillion national debt.

“While we are disappointed that it did not pass, Senator Paul’s Six Penny Plan forced an honest discussion about the crisis our nation faces and some of the tough decisions which will be required to reverse course from the almost $2 Trillion in debt our country adds onto the ledger every single year. Higher interest rate payments on more of the debt combined with the spending spree which has raised the debt from $26.9 Trillion on September 30, 2020 to more than $35 Trillion. America is in trouble and Senator Paul is one of the few members of Congress willing to propose solutions.”

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Sept. 11, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging passage of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) proposal for a six-month continuing resolution with the SAVE Act attached:

“House Republicans need to unite around Speaker Johnson’s proposal for a six-month continuing resolution with the SAVE Act included in order to best ensure that only U.S. citizens can vote in federal elections, with full knowledge that President Biden and Vice President Harris, who want to allow millions of illegal aliens to vote in November, will almost certainly veto it. This inexcusable loophole in our voting system should have been closed decades ago, but here we are now, with the White House and Democratic Senate who will refuse to do a thing about it. It is still a fight the House should bring forward to let the American people know what the score is: that Democrats do not support election security in any way, shape or form. The six-month continuing resolution is important Joe Biden and Kamala Harris from getting another bite at the funding apple, which always leads to disastrous Christmas Eve spending atrocities.”

Attachments:

H.R. 9494 at https://rules.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/rules.house.gov/files/documents/final-cr-9.6.24-at-523-pm-002%29.pdf

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Sept. 10, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement commenting on tonight’s presidential debate:

“America finally got to hear Kamala Harris as she once again failed to address the critical issues facing our nation, providing no answers to the continued high costs of food and housing and the decline in America’s real wages. The Harris-Biden inflation has destroyed many Americans’ hope to achieve the American dream. Continuing the Harris economic policy for another four years will result in higher taxes and bigger deficits that already have us on the brink of recession. Continuing with open borders endangers public safety, our schools and communities. And an expansion of the weaponized administrative state threatens our fundamental constitutional freedoms. Americans who care about their children’s future will vote to return Donald Trump to the Oval Office, after all, weak and stupid is no way to run a country.”

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Aug. 20, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to the treatment of President Joe Biden at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Ill.:

“Americans for Limited Government believes that Joe Biden committed impeachable offenses and should be legally removed from office, but what the Democrats did to Joe Biden over the past month has been breathtakingly efficient and equally disgusting. The final ignominy was their decision to force the President of the United States to cool his heels behind AOC and a list of lightweights until he was allowed to take the stage at 11:28 p.m. EST on the little watched first night of a convention that was supposed to be his coronation.

“In just a month, the Democrats turned Joe Biden from their symbol of moving forward in America to an afterthought and embarrassing crazy uncle who they had to let out of the basement to rant in a time slot reserved for Jimmy Kimmel.

“I don’t know Joe Biden personally, and believe that his weaponization of government and on-going characterization of Donald Trump and his supporters as being lower than gum to be scraped off of America’s shoe has fueled the rapidly increasing violence on the left, but as President of the United States, Biden deserved more than the ceremonial funeral he was given on Monday night. Left to deliver his own eulogy, Biden was his usual self, but those who orchestrated the coup which ended his bid for a second term should have had the class to give him an honorable send off.

“It was once said, ‘if you want a friend in politics, get a dog.’ On Monday August 19, 2024, that lesson was made abundantly clear to America. Once the Democrat elites determined that Joe Biden no longer served their purpose, they not only kicked him to the curb, but they are trying to erase him. For those who reject truth as absolute and believe the ends justify the means, what else could be expected? They have an election to win, power to retain and they won’t let even the current occupant of the Oval Office who they celebrated in June get in their way in August.”

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Aug. 15, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other House GOP leaders for opposing prescription drug price controls by the Biden-Harris administration:

“House GOP leadership gets it exactly right in pointing out that the falsely named Inflation Reduction Act’s inclusion of a mandate from bureaucrats to set prescription drug prices has done untold damage to the American health care system.  Rather than lower costs, the provisions have made it so patients see fewer choices, higher prices and a decline in investment in future cures.  This is just one more example of Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote in the Senate wreaking havoc on our nation’s economic and health care system.

“Americans for Limited Government has been pointing to the damage being done through the Biden-Harris prescription drug price fixing scheme for months, and this statement by the House GOP Leadership emphasizes how disastrous Biden-Harris’ expansion of the power of unelected bureaucrats over the pricing of medicine has been to patient’s health and the ability of doctors to prescribe the medicines needed free from meddling from Washington, D.C.”

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July 22, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement questioning Vice President Kamala Harris’ awareness of President Joe Biden’s declining mental state:

“The very first question Kamala Harris should have to answer is whether she believes Joe Biden is still fit to serve as president. President Biden was pushed out of this race because for months before, during and after his June 27 debate with former President Donald Trump, Biden has experienced several mental lapses in public that led to immediate calls for him to leave the race. So, if he is unfit run, how is he fit to serve? What did Harris know, and when did she know it? As Vice President, Harris is one of the people closest to Biden, she owes it to the American people to either tell the truth or just lie to our faces. The upheaval around the world and challenges to America make this one of the most dangerous times since the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the knowledge by foreign leaders both friends and adversaries that President Biden is not fully capable makes the world even less safe.”

Attachments:

“Why is Joe Biden still the President?” By Robert Romano, July 22, 2024 at https://dailytorch.com/2024/07/why-is-joe-biden-still-the-president/

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July 22, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s testimony today before the House Oversight Committee: 

“Today’s hearing on the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump shows that Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is completely unsuitable to remain in her position. Cheatle’s stonewalling and failure to answer basic questions about the shooting is shocking. For a full nine days after President Trump was shot, Cheatle claimed to still be looking into basic facts about the shooting.  

“If I were Vice President Harris, President Biden, former president Trump, Robert Kennedy, Jr. or any other protectee, I’d be frightened by the Director’s apparent lack of awareness and inability to tighten up the failures in the protection provided in Butler, Pa.  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Cheatle’s claim that it will take 60 days to get an initial internal evaluation as ‘unacceptable’ at the House Oversight Committee hearing on the assassination attempt.

“For the security of our national leaders, Cheatle must be replaced immediately, and articles of impeachment should be drafted for immediate consideration by the House and Senate.”

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July 22, 2024, Fairfax, Va.–Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to President Joe Biden dropping out of the 2024 presidential election:

“President Biden being pushed out of the presidential race by Democrat elites and billionaires ends the argument that they are saving democracy. They don’t care about democracy, they only care about raw power and I don’t believe anyone is fooled.”

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July 17, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to former White House advisor Peter Navarro being released from federal prison:

“The political prosecution and imprisonment of Peter Navarro for having the audacity to claim executive privilege in response to a Congressional subpoena has come to an end. It is astonishing that the Biden administration would choose to prosecute a political opponent with all of the inherent risks to our nation that it entails in order to put someone in jail for four months. This same Justice Department, which prosecuted both Navarro and former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon, for failing to testify to Congress, over their executive privilege claims, at the same time, is led by an Attorney General claiming executive privilege in defiance of a Congressional subpoena and found in contempt of Congress. Naturally, Biden’s DOJ is refusing to prosecute itself for violating the very same law, exemplifying the current two-tiered justice system. Thankfully, Peter Navarro survived his prison sentence and will be making a triumphant return as a political martyr to the public stage at the Republican National Convention tonight.”

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