Oct. 20, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning issued the following statement today in support of Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s (R-GA) action to protect Americans’ retirement accounts from risky Chinese investments. Yesterday Sen. Loeffler sent a letter to the Department of Labor requesting the federal government block human rights-abusing companies from American investment eligibility. Manning praised Sen. Loeffler, stating:

“Sen. Kelly Loeffler brings important momentum to the Divest China Now campaign aimed at divesting the more than $250 billion Americans have invested in high risk Chinese companies. Because these companies do not comply with the same transparency and oversight regulations that American companies are required to follow, no one knows their true value. Perhaps more important, many of these companies rely on child and slave labor. Some of these companies are known to participate in organ harvesting. Other are part of the Chinese military industrial complex aimed at destroying America.”

“Americans for Limited Government is part of a nationwide coalition seeking to safeguard American investors and end human rights abuses in China. The DivestChinaNow.org campaign is urging federal and state authorities to rid their public pension funds and other accounts of Chinese investments and to have the Department of Labor deem that non-transparent Chinese state-owned companies are unsuitable for 401(k) and other pension investments under Employee Retirement Insurance Investment Security Act.

“In May, that coalition succeeded in getting the Trump administration to immediately halt all investing of federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) assets in Chinese companies. The TSP is a retirement savings and investment plan for federal employees and members of the uniformed services.

“Loeffler’s support is a game-changer because of her background in the financial sector and Wall Street,” concluded Manning. “She brings tremendous credibility to this issue and I hope other national leaders will take notice and join us in the calls to divest from China.”

Attachments:

Chinese concentration camp survivor tells her story, Oct. 14, 2020 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQGBJqglfSM

Who is Really Funding China’s Military Buildup? Oct. 5, 2020 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vnz1QKXJCE

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Oct. 19, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), Marth McSally (R-Ariz.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) for introducing the Keep Nine Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to fix the number of Supreme Court justices to nine:

“The Keep Nine Amendment to the U.S. Constitution fixes the number of Supreme Court justices to nine and cannot be added to or subtracted from without another constitutional amendment. At a time when the left is attacking the idea of filling a Supreme Court vacancy as ‘court packing,’ the public needs to be assured that Congress will fight any attempt to do just that.  Changing the number of justices on the Supreme Court to fit political whims is the end of constitutional protections for minority rights and the rule of law, where the best way to get a legal stamp of approval will no longer be to push constitutionally limited and restrained regulations and policies, but instead to ensure that judges favorable to those policies hear those cases. The Keep Nine Amendment will preserve the Constitution and individual rights, and is an appropriate limit on the power of the President to appoint justices to the Supreme Court.

“Americans for Limited Government is proud to stand with Senators Ted Cruz, Kelly Loeffler, Marth McSally, Thom Tillis, Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith in this historic effort to preserve the independence of our Judiciary.  While many in Washington, D.C. talk about important issues, these Senators have taken a powerful first step in keeping the Supreme Court free from politically motivated expansions or contractions which strip the blindfold off of Lady Justice.”

Attachments:

Letter to the U.S. Senate in favor of Keep Nine Amendment, Oct. 16, 2020, https://getliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Keep-Nine-Constitutional-Amendment-Letter-10-16-20.pdf

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Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning issued the following statement today in reaction to Joe Biden’s remarks yesterday to autoworkers in Ohio.

“Joe Biden did something remarkable in a speech to select autoworkers in Ohio yesterday, he lamented the death of the Delaware auto industry, which began in the early 1990s. The shutdown of a once-thriving Newark, Delaware auto plant culminated with the December, 2008 shutdown of the once thriving Chrysler plant which had been the second largest employer in his state.  This plant reached its peak with 5400 workers before Sen. Joe Biden voted for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994.  A Chicago Federal Reserve article by Thomas Klier reports that while Joe’s beloved Delaware auto workers were eliminated in the first fourteen years of the agreement, Mexico’s auto industry has more than tripled as of 2018.

“And what of Chrysler? According to Klier, “… in anticipation of NAFTA, three full-scale assembly plants were opened during the early 1990s (one each by Chrysler, GM, and Nissan),” additionally Chrysler chose to manufacture the PT Cruiser exclusively in  Mexico during its nine year run, while shutting the Newark plant during that same span.

“Why does this matter? Simply because while Biden was Senator for the entirety of the decline and death of the Delaware auto industry, he effectively loaded the gun through his support for NAFTA and the Permanent Normalized Trade Relations agreement with China.  Biden is either completely unaware of the connection between his Mexico/Canada first trade policy and the export of U.S. auto jobs from Delaware, or he is one of the most audacious liars in the history of politics. Auto workers trusting Joe Biden to stand up for their jobs is like chickens putting their protection in the hands of Colonel Sanders.  I suspect that America’s autoworkers won’t be fooled by someone who has spent almost fifty years worshipping at the altar of globalism and traded away thousands of their fellow union members livelihoods.

“As Biden himself might say, ‘C’mon man, you know me.’  Unfortunately for Biden, they do.”

Oct. 12, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to U.S. Sen. Chris Coons’ (D-Del.) dubious claim that confirming Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court “constitutes court-packing”:

“Once again, Senate Democrats prove the old adage that whatever they accuse the other side of is what they themselves are doing or planning to do. The President exercising his power to fill the Ginsburg vacancy on the Supreme Court with Judge Amy Coney Barrett is not court-packing, it is fulfilling his Article II, Section 2 responsibility to ‘nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint … judges of the Supreme Court…’ Court-packing, as every American history student in high school should learn, is an illegitimate attempt to increase the number of Supreme Court justices that has stood since 1869 in order to have those justices rule in favor of unconstitutional laws, regulations and actions.

“Republicans won the Senate election in 2014, and the White House in 2016, and elections have consequences. Presidents don’t serve for three years, they serve for four years. In 2016, when the Scalia seat became vacant, former President Barack Obama wasted no time in exercising his constitutional authority to attempt to fill it with Merrick Garland even though it was his last year in office, just as the Republican Senate exercised its right to just say no. Now the Senate is considering the Barrett nomination, as is their prerogative under the Constitution. It cannot be emphasized enough that filling a vacancy is legitimate, while creating vacancies for political purposes would do violence to the independence of federal courts.”

Attachments:

Letter to U.S. Senate to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Oct. 12, 2020, at https://getliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/BarrettLetter10-12-20.pdf

“Why Biden’s Threat to Pack the Supreme Court Matters,” By Catherine Mortensen, Oct. 9, 2020 at http://dailytorch.com/2020/10/why-bidens-threat-to-pack-the-supreme-court-matters/

“Obama didn’t wait to fill the Scalia seat in 2016, and neither should Trump wait to replace Ginsburg,” By Robert Romano, Sept. 26, 2020, at http://dailytorch.com/2020/09/obama-didnt-wait-to-fill-the-scalia-seat-in-2016-and-neither-should-trump-wait-to-replace-ginsburg/

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Oct. 9, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to President Donald Trump’s appearance today on the Rush Limbaugh Show where he said “If we don’t win this election, [the Durham investigation] that whole thing is going to end. Okay? And you just remember that… [T]hat whole thing is going to be dismissed… I was under investigation illegally… We caught them in the act. They were spying on my campaign and they went for a coup… That’s another thing I’m fighting for, because these people have to be brought to justice”:

“President Donald Trump has taken the brilliant step of co-hosting the Rush Limbaugh Show as well appearing on the Mark Levin Show and Tucker Carlson all on the same day. For three reasons: It eliminates all doubt that the President is as robust as ever. It eliminates the filter that the media uses to separate the President from the American people. And third, it mobilizes the President’s conservative base to go all in for 2020 in the weeks ahead.

“President Trump succinctly addressed one of the most important yet underdiscussed issues in front of millions in the Limbaugh audience, warning the Durham investigation will be squashed under Biden if Trump doesn’t win the election. This matters, because if the perpetrators of a three-and-a-half year coup get off Scot free, they will know forever that they can do it again and the American people’s faith in our intelligence services will be destroyed forever.”

Attachments:

“Trump warns spygate investigation will ‘be dismissed’ under Biden ‘if we don’t win this election.’ He’s right.” By Robert Romano, Oct. 9, 2020 at http://dailytorch.com/2020/10/trump-warns-spygate-investigation-will-be-dismissed-under-biden-if-we-dont-win-this-election-hes-right/

President Donald Trump co-hosts Rush Limbaugh Show, Oct. 9, 2020 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB8tvZN5xow

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Oct. 7, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement reacting to tonight’s Vice Presidential debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.):

“Tonight’s debate between Vice President Pence and Senator Harris was a direct contrast between conservative Midwestern values and San Francisco, California values. Pence’s steady, low-key leadership is the perfect balance for President Trump as he leads America on his bold agenda. Senator Harris’ main distinctions were being named the most liberal senator in a Senate that includes socialist Bernie Sanders and attacking Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in what was nothing more than a #MeToo witch hunt.

“Once again Senator Kamala Harris joined Joe Biden in refusing to pledge to not pack the Supreme Court eliminating the independence of the judiciary.  Once again, Senator Kamala Harris tried to have it both ways when she said that they would end the Trump tax cut which cut taxes for middle class Americans by $2,000 on average, while denying that their policy is a tax hike on the middle class.  And finally, she and former Vice President Biden want to tell the public that they won’t destroy America’s energy independence through imposing the Green New Deal which Harris eagerly co-sponsored, yet their website still says that the Green New Deal underpins their climate policy which is endorsed by Green New Deal authors Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders.

“America has been given a choice of competing visions for the future. Vice President Pence represents the hope of freedom and opportunity in line with the DNA of America. California Senator Harris represents the failed Marxist philosophy that impoverishes and enslaves people wherever it is tried in the world.  Mike Pence represents the solid middle American values that have made America great, and Harris promises to impose San Francisco values on the rest of America.  The choice is clear.”

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Fairfax, Va. – Rick Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government, issued the following statement in reaction to the Labor and Homeland Security Departments’ joint announcement of interim final new rules to the H1b visa programs.

“I applaud the Trump administration for once again taking action to restore American jobs destroyed by Joe Biden’s failed policies. The administration is moving forward with reforms the H1b visa program that will protect our nation’s workers from insourcing cheap labor in violation of the law’s intent.

“Over the years, the program became little more than a way for multi-nationals to import cheap foreign labor displacing highly skilled U.S. employees

“President Trump promised to protect Americans who were losing their jobs to low-cost foreign labor through the H1b visa program.  During the Obama/Biden years, it became an all too familiar story of IT staffs at places like Disney and Southern California Edison being laid off en masse to accommodate the employment of foreign workers. Requirements that they train their replacements under threat of losing job loss payments was like putting salt in a wound.

“Today, the Trump administration is moving forward with much needed reforms that will end this abuse of the system and protect our nation’s workers from insourcing cheap labor in violation of the law’s intent.”

“The Labor and Homeland Security Department’s deserve tremendous praise for their on-going work to keep President Trump’s promise to America’s workforce to put them first.”

Hiding in basement more dangerous for many

Oct. 6, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement reacting to President Trump’s ongoing Covid recovery at the White House:

“President Donald Trump’s return to the White House provides Americans hope that Covid is not a death sentence, with mortality down per capita since the spring. This does not mean that people in high risk categories should spend the next three months going to every party they can find. What it does mean is that individuals should behave according to their own risk tolerance with full knowledge that the likelihood of dying from the virus has been significantly declining given advances in effective treatments.

“Two things can be drawn from this fact: President Trump’s policy of flattening the curve so treatments and capacity could catch up to virus worked; and that the President’s ability to come back from the disease in a very public way should provide assurance to the American people that they can begin resuming life because lockdowns are not sustainable. The sad truth is that for people with depression and drug and alchol addiction, lockdowns are far more dangerous than the Covid virus ever will be. In short, hiding in your basement for many is much more dangerous than the virus will ever be.”

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Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to President Donald Trump returning to the White House from Walter Reed Medical Center:

“It is truly great news that the President of the United States is returning to the White House where he will continue to receive outstanding medical care. The successful treatment of the President to date demonstrates just how far we’ve come in understanding how to defeat this virus, giving hope to millions of people. It is fitting President Trump has been leading the fight for flattening the curve, ensuring that hospital space, ventilators and testing have been made available to anyone who needs them, and his progress is Exhibit A of the successful effort to significantly reduce the Covid death rate.

“Obviously every life lost is a tragedy but without President Trump’s determination in expediting treatments and future vaccines, the only hope would be self-incarceration. In April, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo famously exclaimed that Covid ‘is death’ as his policies to intermingle Covid patients with the most vulnerable populations led to that horrific result. Today, President Trump proves that Covid is being defeated and the American people no longer have to live in abject fear for their own lives.”

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President Trump just came outside Walter Reed to greet supporters from his motorcade pic.twitter.com/64fVd3j5I0

— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) October 4, 2020

Presidents can’t hide in their basement

Oct. 5, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to President Donald Trump greeting supporters outside of Walter Reed Medical Center from the safety of his limousine:

“The President made exactly the right choice when he left Walter Reed Medical Center to ride in an enclosed limousine so the public and the press could see him undaunted by the virus. By doing this, he ensured the world that the President of the United States was fully engaged in leading the country. With irresponsible rumors that the President’s health was much worse than reality, it was essential for the country to know the truth about his status.

“This simple drive sent a message to China, Iran and others that the President is full in control and threatening our allies will not be tolerated. Additionally, the financial markets are now reassured that there is no crisis in the executive branch. Sometimes being President means acting like the leader of the free world, rather than hiding in one’s basement. President Trump showed how a leader who understands the role of the President acts, while his opponent, Biden, continues to cower in fear of the Covid virus.”

Attachments:

“President Trump acted decisively to save lives from Covid—when it mattered the most,” By Robert Romano, Oct. 2, 2020 at http://dailytorch.com/2020/10/president-trump-acted-decisively-to-save-lives-from-covid-when-it-mattered-the-most/

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