Jan. 8, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement reacting to the new topline negotiated framework for the $1.59 trillion U.S. discretionary budget:

“The released topline reduces spending by another $16 billion beyond the debt limit deal and upholds sequestration for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2024.  Most importantly, apart from the broad national defense and domestic spending categories, the topline does not dictate how the monies will be spent.  That is why it is incumbent on the House and Senate to pass the individual appropriations bills for each agency.  It is through passage of these bills, that Congress gives direct instruction to the administration on things like prohibiting the use of funds to push DEI programs, whether specific regulations shall be funded and potentially defunding the persecution of President Donald Trump by the Biden Justice Department.

“Border security remains the top priority, but it is likely to be better handled through the battle over whether to continue funding Ukraine’s ability to defend their border tying aggressive measures to force the Biden administration to staunch the unprecedented flow of illegal aliens into our country to any future funding of Ukraine.

“The topline is a step but is not the decision on how money in individual agencies should be spent.  The House has so far passed seven of the appropriations bills, with five others still pending, with dramatic restrictions on the Biden administration’s abuse of power. Americans for Limited Government is going to focus on passage of these bills with the goal of having as many of those defunds and riders survive the negotiating process with the Senate and Executive Branch.”

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Jan. 8, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to the hospitalization of Secretary of Defense Austin Lloyd being kept secret from President Joe Biden:

“Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was sedated in Walter Reid Army Medical Center and no one bothered to tell the White House.  In what was supposed to be a minor procedure, Austin encountered a medical emergency necessitating his hospitalization for five days. Normally, this would be no big deal, but when there appears to be chain of command confusion at the Pentagon due to his top deputy being on vacation at a time when Austin has authorized military strikes against Iranian assets based in Iraq, one would think the White House would at least be aware that the Defense Secretary was out of action.

“The Middle East is a powder keg, and the national defense and intelligence establishment seems to continue believing that they are in charge and not the duly elected president of the United States.  Under President Trump, we had the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff bragging that he engaged in back door communications with China to undermine Trump and betray the nation.  Now, under Biden, the Pentagon is acting as if it is an independent branch of government without a chain of command that starts in the Oval Office.

“Who is in charge? Apparently, not the White House. No matter what you think of the current president, this pattern of military disconnection from the president we elect is beyond dangerous — it is the beginnings of a soft coup by a military establishment that could neither defeat the Taliban nor figure out an orderly and honorable exit from Afghanistan.”

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Jan. 5, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging members of the House and Senate to cosponsor and pass Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) Audit the Federal Reserve legislation when it is introduced next week to get to the bottom of the regional bank bailout, the Bank Term Funding Program, now up to $132 billion according to the Fed’s latest H.4.1. release:

“Every member of Congress should support Sen. Rand Paul’s legislation to audit the Federal Reserve. This is not just a rhetorical talking point, it is a fiscal and monetary responsibility of Congress to unveil how the Fed has been negating the impacts of higher interest rates on too big to fail banking balance sheets in the regional bank bailout, the Fed’s now $132 billion Bank Term Funding Program. This designed mitigation and socialization of interest rate risk for some banks while other smaller banks have been forced to close their doors under the Congressionally passed Dodd-Frank law, needs to be understood to ensure that political favor does not drive the picking of winners and losers, including whether these bailouts are going to too big to fail and foreign banks.

“In 2010, under Dodd-Frank, the Fed was audited, too, of the $1.25 trillion of mortgage-backed securities bought by the Fed, foreign entities sold some $442.7 billion of their mortgage securities to the Fed, too. Similarly, it stands to reason that interest rate exposure would not be merely limited to domestic regional banks, but only a full audit will reveal the truth.

“This is not a partisan issue, it is a basic right of the people and their representatives in Washington, D.C. to know if laws need to be changed to prevent the politicization of our capital and Treasury market systems. With the increased involvement of the U.S. banking industry to promote social and economic change programs, including DEI and green agenda programs, it is essential that the public and their representatives ensure that Treasury markets particularly, with the national debt set to rise to more than $50 trillion by 2033, are not being abused for political gain.

“Please cosponsor Sen. Paul’s legislation to audit the Federal Reserve.”

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Dec. 21, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove Donald Trump from the ballot of the March 5 Republican presidential primary and the general election:

“The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to throw Donald Trump off the state ballot for both the primary and general election clearly demonstrates the abject fear held by the establishment that if given a choice, voters will choose Trump and he will win. It is clear that in Joe Biden’s America, the only true act of political defiance is supporting Trump. On Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump should thank the Colorado Supreme Court justices by name for the role they played in making him the only true choice for change. As so often happens, what they intended for evil will have the exact opposite impact. Whether you are on the right or the left, you have to agree that the Supreme Court needs to act to strike down this act of outrageous desperation. Denying the American people the ability to choose their leaders is beyond dangerous and cannot be tolerated and normalized.”

Attachments:

“Radical Democrats look like stone cold tyrants right now—and other Democrats can see it, too.” By Robert Romano, Dec. 21, 2023 at https://dailytorch.com/2023/12/radical-democrats-look-like-stone-cold-tyrants-right-now-and-other-democrats-can-see-it-too/

“As Trump soars in polls, Colorado Supreme Court tries to remove him from ballot in sop to Democrats,” By Robert Romano, Dec. 20, 2023 at https://dailytorch.com/2023/12/as-trump-soars-in-polls-colorado-supreme-court-tries-to-remove-him-from-ballot-in-sop-to-democrats/

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Dec. 13, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising the House of Representatives for voting to continue the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden:

“Americans for Limited Government praises House Republicans for voting to proceed with the ongoing impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden. This historic vote formally expands the scope and power of the House Judiciary, Oversight and Ways and Means committees to pursue evidence related to high crimes and misdemeanors Biden may have committed. The vote was made necessary by President Biden’s refusal to answer subpoenas from the House under the claim that an impeachment inquiry had not formally been approved. Now that it has, it can be anticipated that President Biden will be compelled to fully cooperate and provide documentation to directly answer House inquiries in an expeditious manner. This is not the impeachment of Joe Biden, but is a necessary step leading to a future impeachment vote.

“This vote was an important test of Speaker Johnson’s leadership which he passed with flying colors. Every Republican in the House who voted for the resolution have done their jobs and proved that on issues of national security and preventing influence peddling, they can function together.”

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Nov. 10, 2023, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government president Richard Manning praised U.S. House GOP Conference Chairperson Elise Stefanik for her standing against the political prosecution of former President Donald Trump and calling for New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron to be removed from the case:

“In a world where so many politicians duck for cover, Rep. Stefanik is exhibiting a true profile in courage by demanding that the New York state Commission on Judicial Conduct remove New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron from the case against former President Donald Trump due to his clear bias and outrageous disregard for the basic rule of law.

“Stefanik rightly cites New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron’s, ‘bizarre behavior’, ‘inappropriate bias’ and ‘judicial intemperance’ in the letter. Engoron outrageously disallowed direct evidence to the contrary when he declared that President Trump was guilty of fraudulently overvaluing his properties. One example was his accepting an absurdly low valuation claim by the prosecution of between $18 and $27 million offered by the Democrat Attorney General’s office for Trump’s Mar a Lago estate.  Independent real estate experts value the property in line with Trump organization estimates of between $426 million and $612 million.  On his acceptance of this single undervaluation by the anti-Trump NY Attorney General, Engoron has proven his unsuitability to try this case.

“Stefanik courageously urged the commission to ‘take corrective action to restore a just process and protect our constitutional rights, ‘by sanctioning and removing the judge from the case.

“Stefanik sticking her neck out when she did not have to in support of the rule of law and against the obvious and blatant political prosecution of President Trump, she has gained a new admirer. It took real guts to push back against the legal establishment in her own state, and the country needs more elected representatives like Elise Stefanik who stand up for what is right regardless of consequences.”

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