April 29, 2026, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement agreeing with the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais that an “additional majority-minority district… is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander” under the Fourteenth Amendment:

“The Supreme Court has correctly ruled that race-based formulas for drawing Congressional or any other districts are an unconstitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection of the laws. In so doing, the Supreme Court has now made it necessary for every state that presently has Congressional Districts that were drawn explicitly based on racial considerations to redraw their maps — every one of them, not just Louisiana — as they will surely now be facing further legal challenges, including those that were most impacted by the Voting Rights Act like Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida and others. It’s not a question of should but of must. That is, under the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection of the laws, districts can be drawn with partisanship in mind, with economics in mind, but not race, on that, the Constitution is clear.”

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In case you missed it, last month, Americans for Limited Government (ALG) released a follow-up white paper with new findings uncovering how labor union leaders are out of touch with their rank-and-file members who support President Donald J. Trump’s economic agenda.

Conservative influencers that support Make America Great Again (MAGA) are breaking down the findings from ALG’s latest white paper and spreading the word online, calling on union workers to hold their leadership accountable.

Here are some of the points they are making about the growing disconnect between union leadership and the millions of members who backed President Trump:

Tatyanna Coltharp on Instagram:

“Union groups have filed sixty lawsuits against the Trump administration since 2025. That’s more than four lawsuits per month, and union leaders have strongly criticized Trump’s policies. My question is this: if millions of union members supported Trump, why are their dues funding politicians opposing him?”

James Murphy on Facebook:

“If you are a union worker, it’s high time for you to start asking questions of your union leadership, and making sure they are not funneling millions of dollars—of your dollars—to individuals who are doing everything in their power to stop what you truly believe in.” Jake Campbell on X:

“Beyond just the funding, you’ve got union organizations filing sixty lawsuits against the Trump administration since 2025—a sustained organized resistance against the Trump administration. What you really have is two realities happening at the same time. On one hand—the workers themselves who have shifted politically, who are voting in a certain way to clearly signal what they want—but on the other hand, leadership controlling the money, the legal strategy, and the messaging, moving in a completely different direction.” Adam Salinas on TikTok:

“I find it hard to understand that if millions of union workers voted for Donald Trump back in 2024, how is it that their union bosses are spending workers’ dues to fight Trump’s agenda. If you ask me, this isn’t about representation anymore. This is whether union leadership is actually representing their workers at all.”

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April 1, 2026, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement praising the successful launch of Artemis II:

“Not since 1972’s Apollo 17 have Americans or anyone else for that matter visited the moon besides robots and satellites. After six manned missions arrived safely between 1969 and 1972: Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17, and now, after 54 years, Artemis II has successfully launched and is safely in orbit and if all goes well on its way to the moon. This accomplishment is shared by all Americans — and all of humanity. Godspeed, crew! Our prayers for a safe mission and return go with you.”

Attachments:

“Another Giant Leap: As Trump Sets Sights On The Moon And Mars, The Next Generation Of Space Exploration Has Arrived,” By Robert Romano, Dec. 22, 2025 at https://dailytorch.com/2025/12/as-trump-sets-sights-on-the-moon-and-mars-the-next-generation-of-space-exploration-has-arrived/

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March 30, 2026, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement thanking President Donald Trump for paying Transportation Security Administration workers who had been on the job without pay for more than month:

“President Donald Trump is doing the right thing and upholding the Thirteenth Amendment by directing the Department of Homeland Security to pay Transportation Security Administration workers who had been working for more than a month without pay as excepted workers during the shutdown. The workers are already legally guaranteed backpay with interest as soon as the shutdown ends anyway. The Anti-Deficiency Act provides for ‘excepted’ employees but the law only contemplates post-lapse compensation. In the meantime, involuntary servitude is strictly forbidden by the 13th Amendment. The Treasury is still collecting revenue. Under the Thirteenth Amendment, after a prolonged shutdown, no matter what the excepted employees will ultimately have to be paid. The Anti-Deficiency Act would not be able to overcome the Thirteenth Amendment in the event of an indefinite lapse of funding, which is exactly what we have now. It would unconstitutional to not pay them and so, under the emergency, the President ultimately has to pay them. Even if courts later find out that compelling excepted workers to remain on the job was unconstitutional, they would also have to find in so doing that they had to be paid. Congress cannot vote to take slaves.”

Attachments:

Executive Order to fund TSA workers: “Accordingly, I hereby direct the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to use funds that have a reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations to provide TSA employees with the compensation and benefits that would have accrued to them if not for the Democrat-led DHS shutdown, consistent with applicable law, including 31 U.S.C. 1301(a).” President Donald Trump, March 30, 2026 at https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/03/memorandum-for-the-secretary-of-homeland-security-and-the-director-of-the-office-of-management-and-budget/

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March 25, 2026, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement in response to a proposed deal to reopen the Department of Homeland Security:

“Headed into the 2026 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) partial shutdown, Democrats were demanding judicial warrants for immigration enforcement, no more masking for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, a use of force standard and a bar on alleged racial profiling. Now, there is a deal in discussion where none of things will happen, DHS will be funded minus ICE which was already funded via the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and which will be further funded in another budget reconciliation bill. 40 days of long lines at airports, a deadly airplane accident at highly congested LaGuardia Airport in New York and four Islamist terrorist attacks while DHS was hampered all so… Democrats wouldn’t have to vote to fund ICE and face their radical wing in primaries. None of their actual demands were met, so once again it was all a waste of time.

“This of course was all highly predictable. In 2025, the longest shutdown in history of 43 days was Democrats fighting for expanded Obamacare premium tax credits and we got to the end of the shutdown, and those were not included in the final resolution. In 2018 and 2019, President Donald Trump wanted Congress to fund the border wall, we had another long shutdown of 35 days, and at the end of it, Congress did not fund the border wall and the President had to instead declare a national emergency and reprogram military funding to get the wall built. In 2013, Republicans shut down the government to defund Obamacare, as if then-President Barack Obama was ever going to sign a bill defunding his signature legislative achievement, and after 16 days at the end of it, Obamacare was not defunded. In 1995 and 1996, then-President Bill Clinton was vetoing Republican budget proposals and ultimately, the shutdown ended after 21 days with an appropriations package that more resembled Clinton’s preferred budget priorities, where the big cuts were not made to Medicare and Medicaid. Years later, the budget was balanced, not because of any shutdown, but because Congress instead worked with the President to get it done.

“Shutdowns don’t work, but they’ll keep happening because there is very little downside to them politically. Democrats think the 2026 Congressional midterms are in the bag, and so there is very little incentive for them to work with President Trump and Republicans. The lesson, if there is one, might be for President Trump and Congressional Republicans to look at the next reconciliation bill and prefund all their priorities through the remainder of 2028. Then, even if Democrats do well in the midterms, it won’t matter because they won’t be able to hold border and ICE funding, or Department of War funding for that matter if it’s necessary for the current war effort in Iran, hostage in 2027 and 2028. The precedent was already set in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. So, preempt the inevitable 2027 and 2028 shutdowns and just fill everything up to the rim if this is the way things are going to be.”

To view online: https://getliberty.org/2026/03/dhs-shutdown-winding-down-without-any-real-concessions-again/

Attachments:

“The Deal To Fund DHS And ICE Separately Will Just Have To Do,” By Robert Romano, March 24, 2026 at https://dailytorch.com/2026/03/the-deal-to-fund-dhs-and-ice-separately-will-just-have-to-do/

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March 13, 2026, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement urging Congress to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security:

“Since the U.S. and Israel launched the latest offensive against Iran almost two weeks ago, there have already been four Islamist terror attacks on U.S. soil in Texas, New York, Virginia and Michigan. And yet, Democrats in Congress still refuse to fund the Department of Homeland Security. Even without the war including last June’s Operation Midnight Hammer that targeted Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities, after the October 7 terror attacks in Israel and the ensuing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, there has been an ongoing heightened terror threat, with anti-Semitic and anti-U.S. forces attacks on the rise, that DHS needs to be functional in order to fulfill its statutory counterterrorism mission.

“Democrats are blackmailing the American people who voted for President Donald Trump in 2024 to secure the border and restore deterrence to illegal immigration by deporting illegal aliens, including by boosting resources to ICE and the Border Patrol by about $140 billion in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Southwest border encounters are now down to almost zero, and by targeting recidivist criminals including illegal alien criminals, violent crime is hitting all-time lows. The policies are working, and to subvert them, Democrats are holding Homeland Security funding hostage. They want to peel out ICE and the Border Patrol and use the shutdown to drain the additional funds from those agencies.

“Forcing TSA, Coast Guard, Secret Service and other DHS employees to work without pay will not change the outcome of the 2024 election or change the policies that President Trump was elected to implement. But it might demoralize those entrusted with protecting the homeland at the worst possible time.

“This is being done because Democrats are paying no political price for it. They think the 2026 Congressional midterms are in the bag and so are behaving arrogantly. This is what happens when you put politics ahead of the safety and security of the American people. Shame. We’ve already had four terrorist attacks during this shutdown. Yes, these appear to be lone wolf attacks responding to the war in Iran, but again, it’s a heightened threat environment. We don’t have time to muck around. We’re not opening up the border and we’re not stopping deportations which create deterrence for would-be illegal aliens, including terror cells. It doesn’t even make sense.

“Even if Democrats win the House and Senate in 2026, they will almost certainly not have veto-proof margins, and still will be unable to force changes in this manner, which the President would just veto. Right now, they don’t even have majorities in either chamber, so they don’t get to write the funding bill.

“In so doing, Democrats are tempting fate. By waiting for negative feedback from the shutdown via public opinion, the longer the shutdown goes on, and the more attacks that occur, they are cynically betting President Trump and Republicans will be blamed. The problem with gambling all-in is eventually you’ll lose the bet. After 2026, the political pendulum will swing the other way, and the question will be, especially if the war wears on, why Democrats with their newfound majorities are paralyzing the ability of the federal government to fight a resilient enemy and endangering the American people. It’s a dangerous game, and when America is attacked, public opinion has proven it can swing rapidly.”

Attachments:

“Democrats Won’t Fund Homeland Security Because They Don’t Think They Need To,” By Robert Romano, March 12, 2026 at https://dailytorch.com/2026/03/democrats-wont-fund-homeland-security-because-they-dont-think-they-need-to/

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March 4, 2026, Fairfax, Va.— Americans for Limited Government (ALG) today released findings in a new exposé, “In Their Own Words: Union Bosses Betray MAGA” once again revealing a deep and troubling disconnect between the political agenda of major labor union leaders and the rank-and-file members they claim to represent.

Union bosses are at it again. According to the latest campaign filings, labor unions continue to support Democratic candidates for office. New findings show how union bosses betray the scores of union workers who supported President Donald Trump in the 2024 election by attacking his policies, backing his fiercest opponents who block his agenda, and using outrageous “fascist” rhetoric.

In a follow-up to our white paper Union Bosses Versus MAGA, new findings show that unions are once again helping anti-Trump candidates get into office to block President Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) agenda at every turn. How? This is accomplished by funding their campaigns with union dues from millions of rank-and-file members who voted for President Trump in the last election.

Union bosses are funding campaigns of some of President Trump’s biggest detractors, including socialists like Zohran Mamdani and “intellectuals” like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC):

• Sen. Adam Schiff: Since 2020, unions have given Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) more than $700,000, including $25,000 from the Teamsters and $30,000 from the Carpenters.
• Chuck Schumer: Since 2020, unions have given nearly $1 million to Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
• Elizabeth Warren: Since 2020, unions have given nearly $500,000 to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC): Since 2020, unions have given nearly $225,000 to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
• Zohran Mamdani: Unions gave self-proclaimed Socialist and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani more than $900,000.
• Leticia James: During her political career, labor unions contributed over $2 million to Leticia James, including more than $100,000 from the Teamsters.

Union bosses have fiercely attacked President Trump and his MAGA agenda that was supported by scores of union members in the 2024 election. They demonize the landmark One Big Beautiful Bill Act that lowers taxes and efforts to bring more accountability to the federal workforce.

Hear them in their own words:

• The AFL-CIO blasted the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, claiming it would “rip away health care from 17 million people and cut more than half a million care jobs.”
• AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler accused President Trump of “deliberately inflicting pain on workers” through DOGE efficiency measures, while Massachusetts AFL-CIO President Chrissy Lynch claimed that President Trump gave “billionaire tech executives the green light to bulldoze the rights and jobs of working-class families.”
• National Nurses United went even further, with Executive Director Puneet Maharaj accusing President Trump’s administration of running a “fascist regime” with a “white supremacist agenda.”

Union bosses have also taken to the courts to stop President Trump’s MAGA agenda. The numbers speak volumes: Unions have sued the Trump administration 60 times since January 2025—on average more than 4 times per month.

Union leaders don’t represent their members who voted for President Trump. On every issue—from economic policy to foreign affairs—they attack the president while bankrolling his fiercest opponents.

Attachments:

“In Their Own Words: Union Bosses Betray MAGA,” March 2026 at https://getliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Union-Bosses-Betray-MAGA-March-2026.pdf

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March 1, 2026, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement urging Congress to reject a proposed War Powers Act Resolution that would make it illegal to protect U.S. forces being attacked and killed by Iran:

“Congressional Democrats want to do a War Powers Act resolution on the U.S. war in Iran. The War Powers Act says if the U.S. faces an imminent danger, then the President can act to protect the U.S. without Congressional approval. Well, the President briefed Congress on the ongoing imminent threat from Iran — which has declared and been at war with the U.S. for 47 years, killing more than a thousand Americans over the years — prior to launching the attack on Iran.

“Three servicemen lost their lives today as U.S. forces are at this very moment under ongoing imminent attacks. If the Democrats’ resolution were to become law — it won’t because even if it somehow passed, President Trump would veto it and it’s unconstitutional in any event — it would become illegal for the President to protect U.S. forces stationed in the region currently under attack, and through weakness, invite more attacks now and in the future.

“Instead, Congress should pass funding for the Department of Homeland Security now that we’re at war so it can fully fulfill its counterterrorism mission, and otherwise vote to support the President and military to achieve victory against Iran, giving our forces everything they need to win. The President has all the authority he needs under Article II of the Constitution to protect the U.S. and her citizens from foreign enemies as has occurred more than 125 times since 1787.

“Congressional Democrats’ resolution represents the same weakness that has allowed Iran to export its revolution for decades, being the number one sponsor of terrorism in the world, the U.S. being subjected to attack after attack, and to get to the brink of possessing nuclear weapons, which the President campaigned against beginning in 2015, promising to end the disastrous nuclear deal, which he has, and in June, launched Operation Midnight Hammer to destroy the nuclear weapons program once and for all. Now, with or without Congress, he is finishing the job. They can thank him later.”

To view online: https://getliberty.org/2026/03/if-democrats-war-powers-resolution-were-to-become-law-it-would-be-illegal-to-protect-u-s-forces-in-the-region/

Attachments:

Ayatollah Khomeni’s June 1980 declaration of war on the U.S.: ““we are fighting against the Western world — devourers led by America, Israel and Zionism… We should try hard to export our revolution to the world, and should set aside the thought that we do not export our revolution, because Islam does not regard various Islamic countries differently and is the supporter of all the oppressed people of the world. On the other hand, all the superpowers and all the powers have risen to destroy us. If we remain in an enclosed environment we shall definitely face defeat. We should clearly settle our accounts with the powers and superpowers and should demonstrate to them that, despite all the grave difficulties that we have, we shall confront the world with our ideology.” https://merip.org/1980/06/khomeini-we-shall-confront-the-world-with-our-ideology/

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Feb. 28, 2026, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement urging Congress to give the President and U.S. military everything it needs to ensure victory over Iran:

“President Donald Trump has directed the U.S. military to use force against targets in Iran to further degrade its nuclear and missile capabilities, to defeat its forces and to prevent them from once again projecting power against U.S. interests in the region, exporting their revolution and threatening national security. Iran at this very moment is attacking our forces and allies across the region. Congress should receive appropriate notifications under federal laws including the War Powers Act, but, really, Congress should play a role and give our military everything it needs to win. Our troops in harm’s way deserve to know that their country is backing them up and that means both parties and the American people’s duly elected representatives in Congress. Give all due authorization, send more arms and do whatever it takes to win. The President can act under his own Article II authority and the laws Congress has enacted against an enemy that has already declared war and has been waging war against us for decades, but that has limits, and victory should be the goal. Now is the time for leadership, not partisanship.

“When the President says something, he means it. No one can doubt that when America says it will use force, it is not only a credible threat, but will be devastating. Iran should’ve taken the deal. The President has spoken often of no more endless wars. So, instead he is using overwhelming force to end this quickly. But in the days and weeks ahead, as it becomes clear how fragile or not the Iranian government really was and how willing and able the Iranian people really are to reclaim their own destiny or not, ultimately the President and Congress will have to make the determination whether to finish the job or not. God bless our troops. Congress, please give them everything they need to ensure victory — and nothing less.”

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Feb. 20, 2026, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement urging President Donald Trump to just “check the [right] statutory box” and reimpose the reciprocal tariffs following the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down the emergency tariffs and overturning Yoshida v. United States:

“Today’s disappointing Supreme Court decision rules that a president cannot impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act — even though the statute uses the identical language that existed under the Trading with the Enemy Act that Richard Nixon used in 1971, and the 1977 House Report on IEEPA itself said the new grant of authorities ‘basically parallels’ section 5(b) of the old law. The good news is that very similar tariffs could be levied by a president under Section 232 for national security, Section 301 for unfair trade practices, Section 201 safeguards, Section 122 balance-of-payments surcharges, Section 338 retaliatory duties and so forth. So, let’s go do that instead.

“In the interim, the President should use full IEEPA embargoes while due diligence is performed under the other explicit tariff statutes by the Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative. Block trade if necessary with countries who are harming America while the new tariffs are drawn up and go through the processes Congress explicated.

“Then, Congress should revise IEEPA to explicitly restore tariff authority for all presidents — require reauthorization every four or five years if needs be to get it passed — so it can be used as the powerful national security and foreign policy tool it was always meant to be. Today’s decision completely ignored Congress’ explicit intent to retain all of the authorities of Trading With the Enemy Act, with the limits being a properly declared emergency with all due notice.

“The limitation that Congress enacted in 1977 was to put the exercise of the emergency economic powers — which admittedly include the power to ‘regulate… importation’ — to the terms of the 1976 National Emergencies Act. That was the limited intent of the IEEPA as Congress was highly attentive to the fact that it did not wish to hinder a future president’s ability to deal with a bona fide emergency in the ‘national security, foreign policy or econom[ic]’ sphere. That’s it. It never intended to overturn the President’s ability to impose TWEA-like tariffs, because it told us so. Justice Kavanaugh’s dissent is correct. Now Congress must fix it.

“The implication at the moment is that a president can just suspend all trade with a sanctioned country under IEEPA but not levy tariffs to achieve similar policy goals. In 2025, President Trump ended eight wars abroad in part with the mere threat of tariffs. If Congress cannot figure out how that kind of leverage is useful — and far less disruptive than total embargoes — for all presidents to achieve U.S. national security interests abroad, then maybe we need a new Congress that is not bought and paid for by foreign interests. The President should remind Congress of how disruptive embargoes can be. Make every member vote on the record. And keep the embargoes in place until the legislation passes — because passing it will end the need for them.”

Attachments:

The 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) “defines the international emergency economic authorities available to the President in the circumstances specified in section 202. This grant of authorities basically parallels section 5(b) of the Trading With the Enemy Act.” House Report on International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 1977 at https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IEEPA-House-Committee-on-International-Relations-report_1977-copy_clean.pdf#page=17

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