July 19, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in support of the President’s Election Integrity Commission:

“Every American should agree that on the basic idea that elections should be fair and honest with only those legally able to participate voting.  The President’s Election Integrity Commission will work to assure that the sanctity of one eligible person, one vote is maintained. Anyone complaining about this process should be asked why they oppose honest elections where only those legally able to vote under the U.S. Constitution participate.”

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July 18, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting Sens. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) for killing the Senate Republican bid to repeal Obamacare:

“In 2015, 48 Senate Republicans who are still serving today including Shelley Moore Capito and Lisa Murkowski had no problem passing legislation that repealed the guts of Obamacare. Together with the House of Representatives, this legislation was put on former President Barack Obama’s desk, where it was promptly vetoed. That bill included phasing out Medicaid expansion, ending the premium subsidies, cost-sharing subsidies, the individual and employer mandates, reinsurance, risk corridors and risk-adjustment, and the taxes and spending from the health care law.

“All that needed to happen was for the Senate to vote for exactly the same legislation it adopted for in 2015, and prove that it was not nothing more than a show vote. This terrible outcome proves Senators Capito and Murkowski were never sincere in their promise to repeal Obamacare. They were just phonies. If the 2015 bill was good enough for Obama to veto, it should have been good enough for President Donald Trump to sign. Instead Capito and Murkowski, turned out to be faithless Senators who through their failure are putting the GOP Congressional majority at risk.

“2018 should be a big year for Republicans hoping to significantly grow their majority due to the number of Senate Democrats forced to defend themselves in states won by President Trump. If the failure to put together a simple majority to send the same repeal legislation to the House that was passed in 2015, it is very possible that 2018 will become a political killing field for Republicans, with disastrous national consequences in 2019.

“Senate Majority Leader McConnell needs to let the situation cool for now, but before anyone goes home in August, he needs to convince Capito, Murkowski and any other faithless Senators that there is no going back and that the negative advertising writes itself if the Senate fails to keep faith with those who voted them into office.

“It will be interesting to see if groups like American Action Network which spent hundreds of thousands of dollars attacking House Republican Freedom caucus members for their successful efforts to improve the bill to replace Obamacare will show the same vigor in attacking their philosophical compatriots in the Senate who oppose the very bill they voted for in 2015.”

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July 17, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump for reopening the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to renegotiation between the U.S., Canada and Mexico:

“President Trump is keeping his campaign promise to get a better deal for American workers and businesses on NAFTA. The American people finally have an advocate in the White House dedicated to putting America first on the global economic stage. The President has not forgotten those who got him elected in 2016, and now it is time for the U.S. Trade Representative to get a better deal for America that serves U.S. interests instead of shipping our jobs and production abroad. It’s about time that we truly have an administration that is working on behalf of the American people instead of multinational corporate interests.

“Ironically, former President Obama reopened NAFTA too when he attempted to ram the ill-conceived Trans-Pacific Partnership through Congress. The major difference was the 12-nation TPP was designed to make NAFTA even worse for American workers all the while locking it into place within a larger, global framework. President Trump knows that the U.S. economy has not grown above an inflation-adjusted 4 percent since 2000 nor above 3 percent since 2005, clearly demonstrating the need to renegotiate the price of doing business in America.”

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July 11, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s decision to cancel the first two weeks of August recess:

“Senator Majority Leader McConnell is doing the exact right thing by canceling the first two weeks of August recess in response to Democrat obstruction. It’s time for the Democrats’ collective temper tantrum to end and Senator McConnell must continue to ratchet up the pressure so that President Trump’s nominees and agenda have a chance of being considered. Americans for Limited Government is very encouraged by this latest announcement by the Majority Leader and urge him to take every necessary step to end the Democrats’ abuse of Senate rules.”

Read the Senate Majority Leader’s statement here.

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July 10, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement about the Department of Transportation CAFE standards review:

“This action by the Department of Transportation will allow the Trump Administration to fully evaluate the wisdom of moving forward with Obama’s unrealistic and destructive Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. It is clear that upon a full and fair review of these standards that Obama’s overreach should be either rescinded entirely or at least substantially rolled back. Secretary Elaine L. Chao’s actions today demonstrate once again that the Trump administration is serious about growing the U.S. economy.”

Read the Department of Transportation statement here.

To view on line: https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-department-transportation-reexamine-civil-penalty-rate-corporate-average-fuel

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June 30, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—The following joint statement by Rick Manning, President of Americans for Limited Government, Jenny Beth Martin, President & Co-Founder of Tea Party Patriots and Colin Hanna, President of Let Freedom Ring USA, Inc., was issued in response to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s government shutdown threat:

“Governor Christie’s healthcare cash grab is a political vendetta. Now he’s threatening to shut down the government, punish Garden State taxpayers and take away people’s healthcare, all because of a political vendetta. As the Wall Street Journal rightly put it, ‘Mr. Christie’s raid is a tax and regulatory mugging masked as public charity.’”

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June 30, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today expressed support for a reported amendment by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) that would allow insurers that sell federal-regulated plans to also sell plans that do not have to comply with federal regulations:

“The Cruz amendment, by virtue of allowing non-federally regulated plans to be sold in every state, would either mean there are fewer taxpayer-subsidized plans or in the very least, the potential subsidy for those particular plans covering fewer items would go down. As a result, the Cruz amendment ought to receive a favorable budget score as lowering the deficit, since by definition it must reduce federal spending. It is therefore a budgetary provision that should be allowed on the Obamacare replacement budget reconciliation bill. But beyond that, it could be the key compromise that gets this legislation across the finish line and helps to bring down health insurance premiums, through competition for all types of plans and allowing consumers to choose if they want regulated plan or not.”

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June 29, 2017, Fairfax, Va.–Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump’s call for “American energy dominance” in a speech today at the Department of Energy:

“President Trump is taking the lead on restoring America as an energy powerhouse in the world, by ending the war on the coal, leaving the ill-considered Paris accord, removing regulatory impediments to extracting energy resources including opening up federal lands, building the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines, among many other measures. Simply by changing America’s energy goal from merely being independent to being dominant tells the world that America’s back, capitalism works and free markets are the path to economic vibrancy. While other nations choose the path of economic suicide, Trump’s America will be moving forward growing and leading the world to a better, more prosperous future. President Trump is right, America is in the driver’s seat.”

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June 28, 2017, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging House Budget Committee Chairwoman Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) to continue to fight for $50 billion of spending cuts to non-defense spending in the House budget that are designed to offset the $50 billion of increased defense spending:

“For the first time in a generation, the American people have a president who has submitted a budget that will simultaneously rebuild our aging military hardware including the Navy and at the same time restore fiscal sanity to non-defense spending. In his budget, the President proposed an historic $4.5 trillion of real spending cuts off the baseline over the next decade.

“Now, House Budget Committee Chairwoman Diane Black is proposing a budget that should make President Trump smile, proposing $50 billion of spending cuts to non-defense spending to offset the $50 billion increase of defense spending. Black is fighting to keep those cuts in the budget and now she needs the support of the American people who voted for President Trump and GOP majorities in the House and Senate. Republicans cannot continue to campaign as the party of fiscal responsibility if when they have the power of the majority, they crush proposals to cut spending. We have to get the nation’s $20 trillion debt under control, and Congress’ part in that is to clamp down on spending. The House’s constitutional role is to set the stage for the nation’s spending priorities. Chairwoman Black’s budget is doing what Congress is supposed to do, which is to set priorities and make choices.

“The only amendments that should be accepted to Chairwoman Black’s budget are additional deficit-reducing cuts.”

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