Fairfax, Va.–Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump for nominating Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court and urging immediate Senate confirmation:

“President Donald Trump has fulfilled his constitutional responsibility to nominate Amy Coney Barrett for a seat on the Supreme Court. Coney Barrett is highly qualified jurist and would make an outstanding associate justice. Her background demonstrates just the kind of fortitude and judicial restraint that the American people expect from their courts.

“President Trump’s strong record of choosing federal judges has been transforming our nation’s courts to a more originalist and Constitution-based system as it was always intended. It is our fervent hope that Coney Barrett will bring that same judicial philosophy to the Supreme Court to interpret the law as it is written and intended, protecting individual freedoms as enumerated in the Constitution from legislative, executive or judicial tyranny. We urge the Senate to move rapidly on this nomination and to confirm Coney Barrett before the election.”

Sept. 25, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in support of H.R. 8331, the “Accountability for CARES Act of 2020” by U.S. Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.) that would block CARES Act funds from going to Chinese companies:

“Congressman Posey is holding Communist China accountable for its abhorrent human rights record, concentration camps, forced slave and child labor, organ harvesting, crushing Hong Kong and threatening Taiwan with legislation that blocks any pandemic-related economic assistance in the CARES Act to be given to any business with ties to China. Without such taxpayer protections, hundreds of millions of dollars are potentially flowing to businesses either controlled, operated or owned by the Chinese Communist Party.

“We applaud and thank U.S. Reps. Posey, Gaetz, Spano, Weber and Cloud, whose legislation protects national security, holds China to account and blocks U.S. tax dollars from funding slavery and concentration camps in one of the most tyrannical regimes in human history. Every member of Congress should support this common-sense provision, and leadership of both parties should ensure that it is included in any phase four legislation.”

Attachments:

“Will Chinese Companies Get A Stimulus Check Again This Time?” By Kenneth Rapoza, Sept. 25, 2020 at https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2020/08/05/will-chinese-companies-get-a-stimulus-check-again-this-time/   “More than 125 companies owned or invested in, directly or indirectly, by the Chinese government got emergency loans authorized by the Small Business Administration and Treasury Department and were also PPP recipients. Horizon said those companies received over $192 million in PPP loans. Around 32 state owned enterprises received over $1million in loans.”

“U.S. investment in China funds slavery, concentration camps and organ harvesting,” By Robert Romano, Sept. 11, 2020 at http://dailytorch.com/2020/09/why-are-wall-street-banks-funneling-40-billion-into-the-chinese-communist-party-via-the-ant-group-ipo/

U.S. investors have $381 billion invested in Chinese and Hong Kong equities, bonds and other securities: https://ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/slt1f.txt

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Fairfax, Va. – Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today joined a group of 106 national conservative leaders in condemning the attacks on President Trump’s potential Supreme Court nominees, including Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett.

Statement from the Conservative Action Project:

The Constitution mandates that there is no religious test to hold public office, and we reject the so-called “critiques” of Barrett’s faith which merely act as a guise under which that test is applied.

Judge Barrett was already subjected to outright anti-Catholic bigotry from Senator Dianne Feinstein in her confirmation hearing for the Seventh Circuit in 2017. “The dogma lives loudly within you,” said the senator, openly asserting that Barrett’s Catholic faith would prevent her from fulfilling her role as a neutral arbiter. Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) took issue with Barrett’s use of the term “orthodox Catholic” in an article she authored as a law student.

This type of open condemnation of people of faith has become par for the course among Senate Democrats, and a willing media which abets them. Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) inferred that OMB Director Russell Vought was anti-Muslim for holding basic Christian beliefs about salvation. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) believes membership in the Catholic service group, Knights of Columbus, should disqualify one from judicial service.

Such attacks are not “vetting.” They are not sincere efforts to determine a nominee’s jurisprudence. They are grotesque distortions of the Constitution, of America’s long and legally protected tradition of religious liberty, and a repugnant display of anti-religious bigotry.

We condemn the attacks on Judge Barrett and all of the president’s nominees for public service.

Fairfax, Va. – Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging President Trump to reject one-size-fits all medical pricing schemes:

“One-size-fits-all medical pricing is a dream come true for Nancy Pelosi, Bernie Sanders and AOC who want health care nationalized.  This quick but deadly fix for the Obamacare created surprise medical billing issue seems simple, put a flat price on all medical services across the nation, but instead it is a nightmare which will end many health services in rural areas.  Don’t believe me, look at what has happened to California where this government rate setting was put into place.  Rural areas, Donald Trump’s base, found themselves with fewer and fewer health service providers to access, for the simple reason that rural health care is more expensive to provide than suburban care.

“For years America has struggled with health care disparity between urban and rural areas, and imposition of the Pelosi one-sized fits all rate plan will make it much worse.  What’s worse is that once the federal government controls the pricing of both medicines and medical services, any vestige of an honest health care system is wiped away.  We have all witnessed the power of controlling health care during this Chinese virus crisis, but imagine the horror when DC bureaucrats are setting medical services prices at rates where they become unavailable at any cost.

“President Trump should just say no to one-size-fits-all medical services rate setting remembering that the citizens it hurts most are those who gave him his 2016 victory.”

Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to a new report by the Senate on “Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns” by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate Committee on Finance:

“The report released this morning contains the least surprising, shocking revelations in history. Anyone paying attention to the Joe and Hunter Biden’s activities in Ukraine knows that Hunter Biden made a fortune representing a corrupt company, Burisma, and that then-Vice President Biden used his influence to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired who was investigating Burisma for corruption.

“It is also not surprising that Joe Biden abused his position as Vice President when he brought his son, Hunter, to a meeting with Chinese officials after which the young Biden got a $1 billion investment deal with no qualifications except his daddy’s office. Now more than six months after Pelosi’s political impeachment was dismissed as nothing more than garbage, the truth is being fully exposed about the corrupt dealings which the impeachment was intended to obscure. If Joe Biden committed a crime selling the office of Vice President, it would be insane for the public to ever entrust him with the Oval Office.”

Attachments:

“Biden, Poroshenko call confirms quid pro quo loan for new prosecutor general. Was it to stop the investigation of Burisma who Biden’s son worked for?” By Robert Romano, May 26, 2020, at http://dailytorch.com/2020/05/biden-poroshenko-call-confirms-quid-pro-quo-loan-for-new-prosecutor-general-was-it-to-stop-the-investigation-of-burisma-who-bidens-son-worked-for/

“Hunter Biden may have to pay back the millions he made, which were stolen from the people of Ukraine, under U.S. law,” By Bill Wilson, Nov. 26, 2019 at http://dailytorch.com/2019/11/hunter-biden-may-have-to-pay-back-the-millions-he-made-which-were-stolen-from-the-people-of-ukraine-under-u-s-law/

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Sept. 23, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s speech yesterday to the United Nations:

“President Trump laid the wood to the Communist Chinese regime at the United Nations.  The President chastised the Chinese over their decision to export the coronavirus to the world while stopping flights and travel from its point of origin to the rest of China and urged the world to hold them accountable.

“The President then continued by reminding the United Nation’s delegates that China leads the world in carbon emissions, nearly twice those in the U.S., hitting China in their polluted soft underbelly.

“Beijing is a government which allows unprecedented amount of pollution, enslaves its own people, encourages forced organ transplants from live political and religious dissidents and minorities, and forces millions of minorities into concentration camps.

“It is astonishing that the world tolerates the Chinese government on the world stage. But what is even more astonishing is that America’s Wall Street continues to pour our nation’s retirement, government and private investments into China, propping up their house of cards economy.

“Let me be clear, just as President Trump called on the United Nations to hold China accountable, it is unconscionable that America’s financial titans proceed with business as usual making Americans who entrust them into unwitting Chinese slaveholders.  Wall Street needs to listen hard to President Trump’s UN address and search their souls as to which side of the moral fence they wish to stand.  In this nation, there is no place for those who not only tolerate slavery but fund and profit from it.  It is time for America to www.DivestChinaNow.org.”

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Sept. 18, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

“Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg harkened back to a time when Americans could oppose each other on policy while maintaining cordial and friendly relationships with those they disagreed with — and she will be rightly mourned.

“While the passing of a Supreme Court Justice is always fraught with political intrigue, the election season makes this choice even more significant. With the President’s history of transparency and his recent announcement of potential appointees to the Supreme Court for public scrutiny, the constitutionalist judicial philosophy of any of his appointees is clear.

“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should take every step possible to expeditiously confirm any nominee President Trump should announce to replace Justice Ginsburg. This is a somber time for our nation but that does not relieve the President or the Senate of their responsibility to fill Justice Ginsburg’s seat.”

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Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement on the latest state jobs numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

“It should be no surprise that states with Democrat governors who have imposed some of the most draconian economic shutdowns are suffering the highest unemployment rates, according to a just released report by the U.S. Labor Department.

“According to the report: ‘Nevada had the highest unemployment rate in August, 13.2 percent, followed by Rhode Island, 12.8 percent, and Hawaii and New York, 12.5 percent each.  Nebraska had the lowest rate, 4.0 percent, followed by Utah, 4.1 percent and Idaho, 4.2 percent.’

“Nevada, Rhode Island, Hawaii and New York have had notoriously harsh shutdown edicts by their respective governors, while Nebraska, Utah and Idaho, all with GOP governors, have pushed a balanced approach to the Chinese COVID crisis, protecting both public health and their state’s economies.

“It is a dead certain bet that Democrat governors are sabotaging our nation’s national economic recovery through their misguided shutdowns. The Trump economic rebound has been largely accomplished without the participation of Democratically controlled states.  It is a crime that Democrats continue to put electoral politics over the well-being of their own constituents. Denying their citizens jobs is hurting their people economically, physically, and mentally.”

Fairfax, Va. – Americans for Limited Government president Rick Manning issued the following statement in support of President Trump’s announcement on Constitution Day that he will create a commission to promote “patriotic education” and establish a grant to develop a “pro-American curriculum.”

“The left has sold America a big lie. The lie is that politics has no place in our education system. This lie is always directed at conservatives who seek to have our American education system extol the virtues of our nation, while focusing upon the building blocks for critical thinking. Marxist academics succeeded in destroying these very values without any vote of the people or the consent of the governed.

“President Trump is 100% correct in his effort to reestablish the teaching of American foundational principles in our nation’s schools. While the New York Times and the Obama administration common core curriculum writers poison our students with a hate America narrative that runs through our history books, museums and formerly free press, President Trump’s actions are a good first step to teaching real American history to our children.

“The sad truth is that if those of us who know that America is the greatest country that God has ever put on this earth, creating more wealth and freeing more people from the shackles of government slavery than all previous nations combined, don’t stand up to the academic bullies to have this story of America told to our children, America will be lost.

“President Trump deserves a collective thank you from all Americans for taking this stand to begin to fight for the hearts and minds of our children against the torrent of hate spewed by those who profess to teach.”

Fairfax, Va.- Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement on the latest income and rapidly dropping continued unemployment claims numbers:

“2019 demonstrated that capitalism, cutting unnecessary regulations, lower taxes and honest trade deals work together to decrease income inequality and raising average wages by $4,400 in 2019 to a record of $68,700.

“While the impact of the China virus has set our economy back, there can be no doubt that President Trump has the right prescription for continuing the record rebound we are currently experiencing, with 13.8 million jobs recovered since labor markets bottomed in April, and another 1 million Americans off of unemployment benefits the week ending Sept. 5.”