Feb. 18, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging the Senate to confirm former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Oreg.) to Labor Secretary and Keith Sonderling to Deputy Labor Secretary:

“President Donald Trump’s nominations of former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to Labor Secretary and long-time labor issues expert and official Keith Sonderling to Deputy Labor Secretary reflects the broad coalition of union and non-union workers who elected Trump in 2024. While conservatives rightfully have concerns about Chavez-DeRemer’s previous support for ending right to work laws nationwide, the reality is that it is President Trump’s policies, not her own, that will be implemented. The Senate HELP Committee has wisely chosen to bundle the Secretary and Deputy Secretary nominations together so they can be brought up within days of each other to avoid an internal food fight over labor policy.

“This contrasts with eight years ago when it took almost a year to confirm a non-controversial Deputy Secretary of Labor in Trump’s first term, and instead will allow for the Department to be balanced in its perspective on labor issues. It’s important that the Senate remember that there are 135 million workers in the private sector and only 5.9 percent are in labor unions or labor union battles. The concerns of the vast majority of the American workforce do not revolve around union fights and instead are focused on real wages and fair and reciprocal trade that impacts all Americans. Americans for Limited Government urges the Senate to confirm both Chavez-DeRemer to Secretary of Labor and Sonderling to Deputy Secretary of Labor so that the President’s agenda is implemented.”

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Feb. 14, 2025, Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump’s Feb. 13 proclamation ordering a evaluation of tariffs and other trade adjustments imposed the U.S.:

“President Donald Trump’s proclamation detailing Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to evaluate tariffs and other trade adjustments against the U.S. by every single country in the world is ending the trade order that has existed since the end of World War II. The old trade order from the late-1940s was based on the reality that the world’s economies had been destroyed due to the combination of the Great Depression and the war, and that the only economy that was standing and thriving was the United States of America. In the fight for freedom against the communist Soviet Union, America opened our markets to countries around the world who allied with us, so that they could grow and share in America’s prosperity. That system was forever altered by China’s being granted permanent normal trade relations with the U.S. in 2000 and entering the World Trade Organization in 2001, allowing a foreign adversary to access and manipulate our markets. The result has been the stripping away of America’s industrial base as businesses chased cheap labor and China manipulated their currency to ensure they always have the lowest price on the market. By closing off straw sales from countries serving as China’s middlemen, President Trump is ending this abuse of America’s generosity.

“While many will complain that this disruption will lead to higher prices and uncertainty, it has been alarming that over the past decade, as China has become more aggressively anti-American, that businesses that have invested in China have not taken the necessary steps to move their supply chains elsewhere, and instead remained partners with the Chinese Communist Party. President Trump’s trade agenda reflects the failure of American-based businesses to react to the obvious long-term dangers they face through Chinese exposure that affects every American. Having honest trade will allow the President to realign our policies to ensure a reciprocal economic partnership with the world. It’s about time we have a President who represents America first.”

Attachments:

“Trump Is Right. Prices Can Definitely Go Down In Response To Tariffs.” By Robert Romano, Feb. 14, 2025 at https://dailytorch.com/2025/02/trump-is-right-prices-can-definitely-go-down-in-response-to-tariffs/

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Feb. 13, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging Congress to suspend the Impoundment Control Act and enact President Donald Trump’s White House Department of Government Efficiency’s cuts undertaken to date:

“The Impoundment Control Act negated about 170 years of precedent wherein presidents had the absolute Article II executive authority to not spend funds authorized by Congress when they deemed such spending unnecessary, starting with Thomas Jefferson all the way through Richard Nixon. Besides recessions and wars, the result was relatively sound fiscal policy. The stunning findings of the White House Department of Government Efficiency of waste and theft of taxpayer resources requires that President Trump do what is necessary to end that waste and theft. Congress cannot be expected to guess how much and where the waste and theft is occurring. Only the President has that ability in administering the laws. Suspending the unconstitutional Impoundment Control Act until Dec. 31, 2026 could reduce the deficit by as much as $1 trillion.

“Importantly, this would alter the current projected spending baselines by incorporating the savings now being touted by the White House. While President Trump is likely to challenge the Impoundment Control Act in a multi-year court battle, Congress can settle the issue right now in the budget bill for the next two years, allowing the experiment in actually cutting spending to occur and the DOGE savings to be realized. Additionally, Congress should authorize the President’s DOGE cuts already undertaken to clear away any legal ambiguities. The government fraud and waste crisis uncovered by DOGE demands that Congress take this simple action to ensure it is ended once and for all.”

Attachments:

“GAO Estimated $233 Billion To $521 Billion Fraud Annually in 2024 As Court Clarifies Treasury Can Access Its Own Systems. Trump Should Just Publish Everything.” By Robert Romano, Feb. 12, 2025 at https://dailytorch.com/2025/02/gao-estimated-233-billion-to-521-billion-fraud-annually-in-2024-as-court-clarifies-treasury-can-access-its-own-systems-trump-should-just-publish-everything/

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Feb. 11, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement on the upcoming House and Senate budget process:

“The Trump administration has been identifying wasteful and potentially fraudulent spending at an alarming pace via its efforts at U.S. Treasury and the White House’s U.S. DOGE Service. Simply by ending payouts to individuals who provide no identification, DOGE says it could save at least $50 billion a year. There is no reason that Congress should not assume significant savings for upcoming fiscal year 2026 including for example a complete restructuring of USAID that the Trump administration is already implementing. The U.S. Treasury payment systems analysis by the White House has revealed $50 billion to $100 billion going to recipients who might be ineligible — something Congress was apparently unaware of — and this barely scratches the surface. It is clear that Congress was unaware of it. It does not include people who are filing illegitimate claims from fake Social Security Numbers for example, fraudulent services reimbursements and so forth.

“In this budget process, Americans for Limited Government strongly urges that the House and Senate Budget Committees to mandate transparency and to anticipate a minimum of 40 percent of the $1 trillion of savings claims made by the White House in the upcoming fiscal year budget, netting $400 billion by encapsulating those savings into law. It is obvious that throughout this year details of waste, fraud and abuse will be revealed on a daily basis and by failing to recognize the spending cuts that should naturally follow would demonstrate a blindness to the reality of the President’s upcoming budget request, which will be substantially lower than the current baseline.

“The waste, fraud and abuse savings now being revealed are barely the tip of the iceberg, and House Republican policy should naturally create pressure for hundreds of billions of savings as Biden administration policies related to the Green New Deal and other subsidies are rightfully ended. Americans for Limited Government urges the budget committees of both chambers to be aggressive in their assumptions and proposals regarding spending cuts that Congress needs to enact in order to get America’s fiscal house in order.

“Our nation faces unprecedented fiscal challenges including the spiraling $37 trillion national debt paired with a need to increase real income for Americans across the board while keep prices down. Government debt net interest payments have risen to $890 billion, the second largest item on the budget after Social Security. If aggressive steps are not taken to limit deficit spending through economic growth policies as well as real, substantial budgets cuts — and support for President Trump’s own efforts — our nation’s economy is threatened by the weight of the debt crushing our ability to be the world’s number one superpower.”

Attachments:

“DOGE Uncovers $50B Annually Sent to People Without SSNs—Why Didn’t Congress Reveal This?” By Rick Manning, Feb. 11, 2025 at https://townhall.com/columnists/rickmanning/2025/02/11/doge-uncovers-50b-annually-sent-to-people-without-ssnswhy-didnt-congress-reveal-this-n2652010

“Treasury Secretary Blocked From Treasury Payment Systems. What’s Next? The Commander-In-Chief Can’t Direct The Military?” By Robert Romano, Feb. 10, 2025 at https://dailytorch.com/2025/02/treasury-secretary-blocked-from-treasury-payment-systems-whats-next-the-commander-in-chief-cant-direct-the-military/

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Feb. 10, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to Sen. Andy Kim’s (D-N.J.) threat to block funding for the government over President Donald Trump’s efforts to rein in waste, fraud and abuse via his U.S. Department of Government Efficiency Service established in the White House:

“Democrat Senator Andy Kim from New Jersey threw down the gauntlet to GOP Senate and House Republicans threatening to shut down the government Senator Andy Kim said Sunday on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ that the Democrats are considering not helping the Trump administration fund the government over the White House Department of Government Efficiency efforts’ to identify fraud, waste and abuse. This effort has already resulted in the virtual shutdown of USAID over support for Hamas, pushing the transgender agenda worldwide and funding international media efforts designed to censor speech and thought around the world.

“DOGE has been instrumental in discovering tens of billions of dollars in direct waste and they are just getting started, yet Kim and other Democrats view the upcoming government funding debate as an opportunity to return corruption as usual to the federal government.

“Apparently, the Democrats public employee union benefactors along with the billionaire beneficiaries of the already identified government spending grift are willing to shut down all of the government if the theft is not ignored and reinstated.

“If that is the fight the Democrats want to have, let’s have it.  Americans don’t like taxes, but they really don’t like their tax dollars being wasted or stolen, and Senator Kim may find that his insistence on perpetuating a potentially trillion dollar graft machine ends the Democratic Party as we know it.

“Of course, that depends upon Republicans standing strong supporting President Trump’s DOGE effort to examine every penny spent and continuing to root out the waste, theft and inefficiency.

“This is one government shutdown fight even the most tepid Republican should embrace, because it will be the Democrats who will have to explain each and every gross spending abuse through their resistance to ending them. And with DOGE at work, expect them to continue to be exposed on a daily basis.

“Good luck explaining that, Senator Kim.”

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Feb. 6, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to a proposed order approved by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly limiting White House access of U.S. Treasury systems:

“The President is in charge of the entirety of the executive branch. DOGE is a duly created temporary organization of the executive branch in the Executive Office of the President in the White House itself. Federal courts have no constitutional justification for blocking the White House’s access to Treasury data or any other system in the executive branch in accordance with the law, and the proposed order instead temporarily balances data privacy concerns with the President’s absolute power to run the executive branch pending further hearing.

“The President was elected to perform his constitutional duties one of which is ensuring the correct operation of the various departments and agencies that exist under law and his authority. The Treasury Department is one such presidentially controlled and administered department, and everyone who works at it is under direct control of the President of the United States through the Secretary who can be fired at any time. The left needs to get over it. Donald Trump is the President, and his appointees, even Elon Musk or any White House staff for that matter, have the power that the President lawfully delegates to them. If these systems can be accessed by an unelected bureaucrat, then the President has every right and the responsibility to make certain that that bureaucrat’s work is being done lawfully, properly and efficiently, and to access those systems. Accessing those systems is part of holding those in trust with administering the Treasury payouts accountable.

“Elon Musk is one of the foremost experts on payment systems and their efficient operation, having co-founded PayPal in his youth. To deny the President of the United States to call upon any expert to examine government systems is not just unsound constitutionally, it’s flat out stupid and does violence to basic constitutional principles.”

Attachments:

“Note To Schumer: DOGE Is Legal, Get Over It,” Feb. 6, 2025 to https://getliberty.org/2025/02/note-to-schumer-doge-is-legal-get-over-it/

“Foreign And Military Aid Is Not Sacred, And President Trump Is Right To Open Up The Books,” By Robert Romano, Feb. 5, 2025 at https://dailytorch.com/2025/02/foreign-and-military-aid-is-not-sacred-and-president-trump-is-right-to-open-up-the-books/

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Feb. 5, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) for shutting down Democratic theatrics calling for more hearings as Grassley moved for a committee vote on President Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI Director Kash Patel:

“Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley showed once again that he believes in fair, honest hearings while not tolerating obstruction and tactics to delay votes on nominees. When Senate Democrats demanded that President Trump’s nominee for FBI Director Kash Patel be subjected to more hearings so they could rant against the President’s decision to relieve multiple FBI officials from their duties pending investigation, Grassley gave them a hard, flat no and instead is moving for a speedy committee vote.

“The simple fact is that Patel was not FBI Director when the personnel changes were made, and more hearings would have no substantive facts to add to any Senate investigation and just be used to create YouTube moments for Senators like New Jersey’s Corey Booker. There is work to be done and it is time to confirm Kash Patel as FBI Director. Thank you, Chairman Grassley for your tough fairness in ending the Democrats’ hearing charade and moving toward voting Patel out of the Judiciary Committee as soon as possible.”

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Feb. 4, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s false claim that the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Service is an “unelected shadow government conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government”:

“Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer knows full well that President Donald Trump’s U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Service is acting directly on behalf of the elected President of the United States, that it is doing so under his constitutional Article II powers to execute the laws of the United States, and that it was established under law, 5 U.S.C. Sec. 3161, by executive order as the law provides, as a temporary organization in the Executive Office of the President, not unlike its predecessor, the U.S. Digital Service. The sad fact that Congress has not done its oversight duties and have left the waste intact is a reflection on Schumer’s fecklessness. To call a temporary White House operated and deputized organization like DOGE an ‘unelected shadow government conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government’ may play well with his radical online donors and public employee unions, but it is election denying nonsense.”

Attachments:

5 U.S.C. Sec. 3161 at https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3161:

(a)Definition of Temporary Organization.—For the purposes of this subchapter, the term “temporary organization” means a commission, committee, board, or other organization that—

(1) is established by law or Executive order for a specific period not in excess of three years for the purpose of performing a specific study or other project; and

(2) is terminated upon the completion of the study or project or upon the occurrence of a condition related to the completion of the study or project.

“Executive Order Establishing And Implementing The President’s ‘Department Of Government Efficiency’,” Jan. 20, 2025 at https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency/ : “There shall be a USDS Administrator established in the Executive Office of the President who shall report to the White House Chief of Staff. There is further established within USDS, in accordance with section 3161 of title 5, United States Code, a temporary organization known as ‘the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization’.”

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Feb. 4, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging the U.S. Senate to work seven days a week to get President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees confirmed:

“It is the week of Feb. 4, and so far the Senate has gotten around to confirming nine of President Donald Trump’s nominees into office with a few more to come this week despite having a 53 to 47 Republican majority that is owed in no small part to Trump’s popularity in the 2024 election in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.

“The truth is, there are about 1,300 positions in the administration that ultimately require Senate confirmation by law, resulting in Presidents resorting to appointing acting officials until permanent selections can be made. At the current rate — nine confirmations in 16 days, or 0.56 confirmations per day — the Senate will only be able to confirm about 200 administration officials per year, or 800 of the 1,300 for the entire four years of President Trump’s second term. They’d never complete the process.

“As it is, at the current rate, it will take about ten more days just to get the 15 cabinet secretaries confirmed, to say nothing of the deputies, assistants to the secretary and agencies that also need to be staffed.

“The Senate should work seven days a week until the Trump cabinet is confirmed, including all of the deputies and assistants needed so that the executive branch can move at the speed of Trump. That means the Senate needs to move at the speed of Silicon Valley to get the President’s team in place so they can implement the Trump agenda.”

Attachments:

“Urge Senate To Work Seven Days A Week Until Trump Cabinet Picks Are Confirmed!” Feb. 4, 2025 at https://www.votervoice.net/AFLG/Campaigns/121046/Respond

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Feb. 3, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for their determination in ending illegal migrations into the U.S. and securing the Panama Canal:

“President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s emphasis on the North American continent threats to our nation’s security and the progress made in the first two weeks of the administration are nothing short of astounding and outstanding.

China’s influence in central and South America accelerated exponentially during the Biden administration with Panama effectively ceding management of the national security critical Panama Canal to the Communist Chinese and a Sino-Panamanian partnership through the Belt and Road Initiative.

President Trump made the decision to prioritize ending Chinese influence over the only water passageway between the east and west coast of America, the Panama Canal, and dispatched newly confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Panama City to negotiate a solution. The immediate result is Panama’s President decided to bring the Belt and Road initiative partnership to an end, choosing positive relations with the United States which will ensure the central American country’s economic growth.

“President Trump’s clearly stated foreign policy objective was masterfully executed by Secretary Rubio in one of the first major policy wins of the administration.

“At the same time, President Trump’s threatened tariffs on Mexico over illegal human and drug trafficking have led the Mexican government to agree to send 10,000 troops to the border to help control cartel activity on their northern border along with some other measures designed to stem the flood of deadly fentanyl into America.

“President Trump responded to the Mexican action by pausing the imposition of 25% tariffs for a month while Rubio and other administration leaders meet with the Mexican government to establish a permanent, sustainable solution that secures the border and ends the drug cartels’ shipments of fentanyl to the U.S.

“Two weeks and President Trump has two major foreign policy victories which directly impact on the lives of every day Americans. That’s moving at the speed of Trump.”

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