Jan. 10, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement reacting to the sentencing of President-elect Donald Trump in New York City:

“The political prosecution of President Donald Trump by rogue New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg in collusion with the financially compromised Judge Juan Merchan has come to the end with whimper, as the decision was made not to sentence Trump with any fines or jail time from the case. The question New York City voters should ask themselves is why their resources were used to prosecute this political expedition rather than being focused on putting real criminals in New York City away and making the streets safer. Bragg and Merchan have put a permanent black eye on the justice system in the city of New York through their politically motivated prosecution of Trump, whose only mistake was helping build and live in Manhattan and running for president.”

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Jan. 9, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging Congress to follow President-elect Donald Trump’s advice and to pass everything in his agenda in a single budget reconciliation bill this year:

“Trump is right. If Republicans truly want to achieve significant fixes to the border, taxes, energy and draining the swamp, they need to consolidate as much as Senate rules allow into one big Budget Reconciliation bill. There is no guarantee that an historically small GOP House majority will hold ten months from now, so the House should shoot for the moon now, while President Trump is most powerful. Get it done.”

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Jan. 3, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement congratulating House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for being reelected by the House as Speaker:

“Congratulations to Speaker Mike Johnson on his election to lead the 119th House of Representatives. Now it is time for the House of Representatives and Congress as a whole to get to work to take actions to enact the Trump agenda to Make America Great Again.”

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Jan. 2, 2025, Fairfax, Va.–Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging House Republicans to reelect House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Jan. 3:

“President Trump’s entire Congressional agenda is at risk on day one of the new Congress when House Republicans decide whether to elect Trump-endorsed Speaker Mike Johnson or embark on yet another suicidal quest for the perfect Speaker. While it is understandable for many House conservatives to be disappointed that the past Congress did not do more to limit the size and scope of government, the only opportunity to move the aggressive Trump Make America Great Again agenda is through unity that will be forever shattered by a Speaker fight. Americans voted to end President Biden’s crazy, leftist policies and to cut government’s intrusive reach into their lives. If House Republicans want to legislatively end Biden’s immigration disaster, they need to stay the course with Speaker Johnson. If House Republicans want to reinstate and expand job-creating tax cuts, they must stay the course with Speaker Johnson. If House Republicans want to truly permanently downsize the federal government, they need to stay the course with Speaker Johnson. However, if they are unwilling to get 75% to 80% of their agenda passed in search of a unicorn, they will engage in a quixotic Speaker fight chasing windmills rather than getting the job done.”

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Dec. 19, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging Congress to reject the Kids Online Safety Act:

Censorship is an ugly word. Over the past decade, our nation has witnessed federal agents pressuring social media platforms to suppress, remove, and prohibit user content on several critical topics. These include valid treatment options for COVID-19, concerns about election integrity, the now-debunked Russian collusion narrative, and the incriminating revelations from Hunter Biden’s laptop, to name just a few examples.

Now, under the pretense of protecting children from “harmful,” non-government-approved content, Congress is considering a last-minute push to grant the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) unprecedented authority to decide what children should or should not access.

Believe it or not, this proposal also allows each state’s Attorney General to sue social media platforms over content they disapprove of. This can only end badly.

For instance, consider the state of California. With its radical policies on gender identity and transition, California could wield this new authority to suppress dissenting voices. Facts and moral objections to these policies could be censored, preventing children—who are directly impacted by such initiatives—from accessing vital information. California law already prohibits teachers and school officials from notifying parents about “gender-related decisions” made at school, effectively preventing parents from intervening and opposing these psychological attacks against their children.

Giving content censorship powers to a state that already censors parents from receiving information about state-conducted changes to their children’s biology would be insane. Yet that is precisely what the deceptively named KIDS ONLINE SAFETY ACT would do.

Stop this bill now and let President Trump and the next Republican Congress act to protect children without granting powers that would destroy those children’s ability to access information and empower themselves against those who seek to prey upon them.

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Dec. 17, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising the re-introduction of the Modern Employment Reform, Improvement and Transformation (MERIT) Act by U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), which has been cosponsored by U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) and nine other House members:

“The MERIT Act will allow federal civil service managers to fast track the firing of incompetent, insubordinate and/or recalcitrant employees. This is necessary to ensure that the federal workforce succeeds in its mission to serve the American taxpayer.  After all, you cannot drain the swamp if you cannot fire the swamp.”

Attachments:

H.R. 10397, The MERIT Act at https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:6884a48b-f3e0-4949-a063-7f04baf93040?viewer%21megaVerb=group-discover

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Dec. 12, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising the U.S. Senate for blocking the confirmation of Lauren McFerran to chair the National Labor Relations Board:

“The U.S. Senate blocking Lauren McFerran to chair the National Labor Relations Board is a major victory for President-elect Donald Trump, and stymied an end of presidency power play to keep Democrat control over the board by President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in the lame duck session. We look forward President Trump’s choice to chair the NLRB and thank the Senate for respecting the will of the American people.”

Attachments:

“GOP Senate Needs To Show Up To Work And Block Biden NLRB Chair Pick,” By Rick Manning, Dec. 10, 2024 at https://dailytorch.com/2024/12/gop-senate-needs-to-show-up-to-work-and-block-biden-nlrb-chair-pick/

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Dec. 10, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging Congress to reject the Kids Online Safety Act as currently written:

“Speaker Mike Johnson is absolutely correct that the issue of protecting free speech is paramount to any consideration of the Kids Online Safety Act. The bill as rewritten still allows the FTC to regulate and states to sue websites over the content on their platforms, a clear contradiction of Johnson’s admonition. Each of us has seen and perhaps even experienced the result of the federal government coercing social media to deny access to information on issues as broad as Covid, election integrity and Russiagate, and instinctively know that creating a federal government censorship regime can only end badly. In its current form, the legislation will effectively and ultimately require government identification in order to access anything that children might see on the web. Note that the federal government does not require the same identification requirements for voters.

“Congress needs to heed Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise’s reservations about this legislation’s impact on free speech, and instead push the Kids Online Safety Act to the next Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that kids’ online safety is protected as much as possible while the First Amendment’s requirement that Congress shall make no laws abridging free speech is not violated.”

Attachments:

“Johnson pours cold water on KOSA push,” Dec. 10, 2024 at https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5032362-house-republicans-cautious-online-safety/

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Dec. 5, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging the Senate to confirm President-elect Donald’s Trump nomination to head the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought:

“Russ Vought is the best possible choice to head the Office of Management and Budget in President Trump’s second term. It should be remembered that Vought served in President Trump’s first term as the Acting OMB Director and during his confirmation was attacked by Senate Democrats for being a Christian, as strange as that sounds.

“But Mr. Vought’s importance to the Trump administration is really found in his dedication to limited, constitutional government principles.  As the Elon Musk/Vivek Ramaswamy led DOGE commission gets headlines, it will be Russ Vought and his crew at OMB who will be reviewing and ultimately approving every regulatory and budgetary change, doing the real hard work of putting into action what others propose.  If I were to personally choose a Director for the Office of Management and Budget, it would be Russ Vought, who I have known for years and has the competence, intelligence and experience to make the needed reorganization of the federal government to bring the deficit and out of control administrative state under control.

“Donald Trump was elected President to fundamentally transform administrative state abuses and overreaches, and Russ Vought will be the man who makes those promises happen. America needs Russ Vought as OMB Director and the Senate should move without delay to put him in place Day One of the Trump second term.”

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Dec. 4, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump’s selection of Peter Navarro as Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing:

“Peter Navarro has a clear vision of President Donald Trump’s trade and manufacturing America First policies, and is best suited to continue advising him on these critical economic issues. Navarro’s leadership in the first Trump White House was essential to the dismantling of NAFTA and its subsequent replacement USMCA that emphasized American manufacturing and putting Americans workers first. President Trump’s success in empowering all American workers was instrumental in his victory in November, and Peter Navarro is exactly the right person to keep the  America First promise to the tens of millions of Americans who put their faith in Donald Trump to restore our nation’s economic sovereignty.”

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