Oct. 7, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement urging the Senate to reopen the government:

“The expanded Obamacare premium tax credits were started during Covid in 2021 by former President Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats and were sunset for the end of 2025 in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act by President Biden and Congressional Democrats. They could have made them permanent but chose not to. They did it to themselves. It has nothing to do with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act or anything else.

“Democrats lost the House in the 2022 midterms, and so have for three years lacked the votes to extend the expansion of the health premium subsidies. Even more so after losing the Senate and White House in 2024. They simply don’t have the votes. They couldn’t expand the program further when they were in power but now expect they can get it done if they hold government funding hostage. It won’t work.

“Now, President Trump and Republicans have nonetheless offered to talk with Democrats about the subsidies. Democrats want it all plus removing the One Big Beautiful Bill’s prohibitions against illegal aliens receiving health care in exchange for three weeks of government funding. That’s a bad deal. If they want to ‘fix’ Obamacare, that’s fine, reopen the government first, forget about the illegal aliens (they’re going home and so don’t need Medicaid or insurance subsidies) and let’s open the hood and see how best to control costs for American citizens without expanding the budget deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars. But don’t expect to get everything you want, or even half of what you want. That’s not the way it works.”

Attachments:

“Going Nuclear: Democrats Are Hoping Republicans Will Irreversibly Abolish The Filibuster,” By Robert Romano, Oct. 5, 2025 at https://dailytorch.com/2025/10/going-nuclear-democrats-are-hoping-republicans-will-irreversibly-abolish-the-filibuster/

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Oct. 6, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement urging Jay Jones to drop out of the Attorney General race in Virginia:

“Democrats’ failure to condemn Jay Jones’ abominable advocacy in 2022 of assassinating the Republican leader in the Virginia House of Delegates and urge he withdraw from the Attorney General race is horrifying. This is not only disqualifying, advocacy of violence and assassinations is a dangerous and radicalizing message increasingly being sent to young people. There is only one response. Jay Jones should step down. If Jones felt comfortable enough to write this to Republican Delegate Carrie Coyner and then call her after she said to stop to wish death on the Republican leader’s children too to convince Republicans to act against gun violence — clearly an act of political intimidation — then the normalization of violence passing off as political rhetoric is reaching critical levels in our nation even among pubic officials. This is disgraceful.

“Threatening public office holders is also a crime. Under § 18.2-60 of the Code of Virginia, ‘Any person 18 years of age or older who communicates a threat in writing… to another to kill or to do serious bodily injury to any other person and makes such threat with the intent to … influence the conduct or activities of a government, including the government of the United States, a state, or a locality, through intimidation … is guilty of a Class 5 felony.’ The penalty could go up to 10 years in prison. Now, whether what Jones did meets the legal threshold for prosecution or not, he clearly went right up to the line of what is legally allowable. How can Jay Jones be Attorney General under these circumstances? This is insane.

“In 2024, following the attempted assassination of President Trump, Jay Jones wrote on X ‘Political violence has no place in our country… This should never happen under any circumstances in America.’ And advocates of political violence like Jones have no place in public office, representing Virginia or any other state, under any circumstances.

“Except apparently when power is at stake. Then, it doesn’t matter. Maybe because there’s no time to replace Jones on the ballot. But Jones clearly knows better, just read his statements about political violence. If Jones is allowed to remain in the race, the message will be that threatening violence against public officials is okay and is rewarded. Is that the right message for young people? Anyone unwilling to fully condemn threatening and intimidating public officials, and call for Jones to step down is similarly unqualified to lead the Commonwealth. How can anyone trust the legal actions of an attorney general who openly threatens and intimidates sitting members of Virginia’s legislature?

“When there is mixed government where both parties share power as in Virginia— just what the Framers of the Constitution intended — nothing much happening except for a few compromises around the edges is all that is to be expected. It’s not supposed to be easy to pass legislation or get things done. Our system is we resolve our differences with elections, not by threatening violence.”

Attachments:

Jay Jones Statements Against Political Violence

Sept. 25: “Violence in any and all forms is unacceptable in Virginia. No person working to represent their community should face death threats.” https://x.com/jonesjay/status/1971321103537799225

Sept. 10: “I’m horrified to hear the news that Charlie Kirk was shot. This is a disturbing act of violence that has no place in our communities. No matter who you are or what you believe, we must protect the freedom to speak, debate, and disagree without fear. I’m praying for Charlie and his family today.” https://x.com/jonesjay/status/1965862516065542151

July 30: “There is no place for any kind of violence or hate in Virginia.” https://x.com/jonesjay/status/1950625012383146041

July 13, 2024, the day President Trump was almost assassinated: “Political violence has no place in our country. We are lucky for the extraordinary bravery of the Secret Service and local law enforcement as they took swift action to defuse this unfortunate situation. This should never happen under any circumstances in America.” https://x.com/jonesjay/status/1812282200479469857

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Oct. 1, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement urging President Donald Trump to automate federal government functions during the government shutdown:

“Democrats are trying to cripple federal government functions in a bid to permanently expand Obamacare tax credits, give taxpayer-funded health care to millions of illegal aliens including DACA and remove the One Big Beautiful Bill’s protections against waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid. The Democratic plan would add more than $662 billion to the deficit according to the Congressional Budget Office, all in exchange for leaving the government open for just a month. Democrats should gain nothing from this foolish gambit and would be much better off passing the clean, bipartisan continuing resolution now being offered by Republicans in the Senate.

“Instead, U.S. Code Section 1341(c)(1)(D) provides that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has the power to define what emergency work is by excepted employees to keep governmental functions running. President Trump should direct OPM to automate as many of the non-sensitive functions especially mundane tasks like data entry of the furloughed government employees as can be with the use of technology including artificial intelligence-directed software on an emergency basis. Even seven years ago, the last shutdown this would not have been possible. The longest shutdown in modern history was 35 days, I bet the work of thousands could be put on autopilot in that time. What would be discovered at the end of the process was how little paper pushers were needed to carry out the business of the American people, fully justifying the inevitable reductions in force that should follow when the horse and buggy bureaucrats become obsolete. It’s time for an upgrade.”

To view online: https://getliberty.org/2025/10/president-trump-should-direct-opm-to-automate-emergency-work-systems-during-shutdown/

Attachments:

U.S. Code Section 1341(c)(1)(D): “the term ‘excepted employee’ means an excepted employee or an employee performing emergency work, as such terms are defined by the Office of Personnel Management…” https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/1341

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Sept. 30, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement urging President Donald Trump to proceed with irreversible reductions in force as soon as the partial government shutdown begins at midnight:

“Democrats have nothing that President Donald Trump needs except maybe for a government shutdown. The debt ceiling, the southern border wall, his economic program, his tax cuts and so forth were already adopted via budget reconciliation in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The only thing Republicans might be interested in from Congress after a shutdown are significant cuts to the federal workforce, which Democrats are creating a fortuitous window for with their ill-conceived, zero leverage government shutdown strategy to get health care for millions of illegal aliens. President Trump and the secretaries of each department should proceed with irreversible reductions in force during the shutdown. If the federal employees are not essential, then why should they be retained post-shutdown when Democrats finally come to their senses?”

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Sept. 26, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano issued the following statement on the current impasse over appropriations in Congress as funding is set to run out on Sept. 30:

“In 2024, Republicans won majorities in the House, Senate and White House as President Donald Trump pulled off the single greatest political comeback in American history, and now it is time that Congress put forward appropriations that reflect the popular will of the majority. All Democrats can do is filibuster in the Senate and say no but at the end of the day, without a single chamber of Congress backing them up, they lack the leverage to move President Trump and Republicans off their fiscal position and what will otherwise be a short-term continuing resolution while appropriations committees try to get to what will likely be a year-end omnibus or else another year-long continuing resolution, effectively freezing discretionary spending at 2024 levels again.

“Democrats’ only hope is negotiation on appropriations, which is the only way a ‘new’ spending plan would be ratified by Congress under the current circumstances. A government shutdown makes continuing resolutions where nothing changes more likely to end the pause in funding when the Democrats finally buckle under the pressure, as they will. In the meantime, do Democrats really want the White House and DOGE figuring out who’s an essential employee and how big the reduction in force is going to be during the shutdown?”

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Sept. 10, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement responding to the assassination of Charlie Kirk:

“Charlie Kirk devoted his life to the freedom of speech and peaceful discourse that the civil society depends on to flourish, that today has tragically been silenced with his assassination. That is the aim of political violence. To keep us quiet. But we will never be silenced, and we will always let our voices be heard in the defense of liberty and preserving the Constitution. Our hearts and prayers are with Charlie Kirk’s family and friends, and the millions of young Americans who were inspired by his fearless message and willingness to meet with everyone, especially those he disagreed with. Let us remember Charlie Kirk, who died as he lived, and never be silent. We will not be intimidated from defending our principles, we will keep speaking up and we will preserve the civil society that he died for. God save America.”

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July 23, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement praising the U.S.-Japan trade deal that finally allows U.S. exports of rice and cars to Japan:

“President Donald Trump has dramatically altered the U.S. trade relationship with Japan and is opening up its markets for U.S. goods for the first time, with Japan agreeing to take rice, cars, trucks and more and to pay the 15 percent baseline tariff. This will begin to narrow the $69 billion annual trade deficit with Japan. Only President Trump could have achieved this, and now he is giving tools that future presidents will be able to take advantage of should they choose the America First path, bolstering U.S producers and workers. For too long, U.S. trade partners have treated their relationship with America as a one-way street, where we accept imports but they take none, taking our good will for granted. The trade was never fair and reciprocal, and Japan was just another example, where hard-working Americans were subsidizing the growth of the Japanese economy without any benefit beyond stockpiling U.S. treasuries. Americans are not piggy banks for the rest of the world to take advantage of. If countries want good relations with America, they have to allow American exporters to trade, too. It’s fair and reciprocal or bust. Thank you, President Trump, for your vision in reshaping U.S. trade policy to be in America’s interests first.”

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July 18, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement praising the House and Senate for completing its work on the $9 billion rescission package of USAID and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting:

“Congress has completed its work on the $9 billion rescissions package that will cut $8.4 billion in foreign aid and another $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. For now, this will end needless state propaganda and aid operations that were harmful to U.S. interests at home and abroad and cuts of people who hate our guts, think America is evil and wish us harm. USAID in particular has been used to funnel money into censorship of American citizens and into supporting governments abroad that are adverse to U.S. interests and values. It’s also time for public broadcasting to sink or swim, do more pledge drives, sell some ad space or whatever it takes to continue operations for which there is demand. It’s been long enough.

“Overall, the successful votes situate Congress in a strong position now for further rescissions under the rules that only require simple majorities in both the House and Senate. Congress could go further and reform the Impoundment Control Act if it wished to give the executive more discretion over impoundment, but for now, Congress should continue working through the President’s proposed rescissions so that taxpayers are not funding programs the President says no longer serve American interests and values at home and abroad. Well done.”

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July 3, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement praising the House of Representatives on final passage of H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act:

“Today is a great day for America, as the House completed the process President Donald Trump started more than ten years ago when he came down the golden escalator, to put in place permanent tax cut reform, build the border wall, dramatically expand immigration enforcement and put America first on trade by incentivizing production inside the U.S. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act does all that and more, enhances national security, will strongly position the economy for growth and the best is yet to come. Congratulations to the House, Senate, Vice President J.D. Vance and President Donald Trump for upholding the will of the 77 million Americans who swept Republicans into power in the historic 2024 election. Promises made, promises kept.”

Attachments:

“Art Of The Deal: Congress Finishes The Job, Secures Border, Guarantees Immigration Enforcement And Expands Tax Cuts In Trump’s Biggest Win Yet,” By Robert Romano, July 3, 2025 at https://dailytorch.com/2025/07/art-of-the-deal-congress-finishes-the-job-secures-border-guarantees-immigration-enforcement-and-expands-tax-cuts-in-trumps-biggest-win-yet/

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July 3, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement in response to the latest jobs numbers by the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

“The unemployment rate dropped to 4.1 percent in June in a pleasant surprise following yesterday’s weak jobs numbers from ADP. This is great news for Americans who are just making their start or who are raising their families and shows the resilience of the U.S. economy following the inflation wreckage of the Biden administration. While time will tell if we are seeing a shift in labor markets towards further expansion, if so, the thing to watch going forward will be inflation, with more workers boosting demand as has been the case historically. Two things can help keep inflation in check: reducing demand or increasing supply. That is another reason the One Big Beautiful Bill Act can be helpful on the supply side by facilitating increases in production, including with 100 percent factory expensing for making products in America and incentives to boost energy and agricultural production, not to mention fostering the AI and robotics revolution, all the while mitigating long term risks to the economy if and when there’s a turn for the worse.

“Lower prices and lower unemployment mean more wealth creation for Americans, who are already benefiting from rising wages and incomes following President Trump’s historic reelection, which will help to facilitate savings and investment. We need to keep that going but nothing lasts forever. The results of the jobs report likely will temporarily forestall interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve as it continues waiting for unemployment to pop. But hopefully lifting the debt ceiling creating more room in treasuries markets and Congress enacting tax law certainty, plus a few trade deals, can further bolster confidence the U.S. is meeting all of its obligations, temporarily strengthening the dollar and helping interest rates to come down on a market basis. Controlling inflation as labor markets continue expanding by incentivizing production boosts needs to be the focus right now.”

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