June 5, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising the National Parks Service for reopening America’s parks:

“Just in time for summer, America’s National Parks re-open so we can enjoy our nation’s great national treasures with a new appreciation.  This is the fantastic news from the U.S. Department of Interior which has recently announced the re-opening of national parks ranging from Kings Canyon National Park and Sequioa National Park to Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, Antietam National Battlefield and Dinali National Park in Alaska.

“After being cooped up in our homes social distancing, Americans can now go out to the beauty that is our great country and re-discover America.  Secretary David Bernhardt and his entire team at Interior are re-opening the great outdoors just in time for each of us to enjoy some much needed fresh air, sunshine and exercise.

“Just as America is reopening, there is no better way to celebrate than to use this time to check out a national park or battlefield near you.  We have a great country, and with all that is going on, it is time to enjoy it.  Thank you, Secretary Bernhardt, for moving fast to safely and wisely re-open some of our nation’s most precious resources for the public.”

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June 5, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement on the latest jobs numbers:

“Today’s employment numbers confirm that we’ve turned the corner on the Chinese originated virus economic disaster. More people are working, more people are in the workforce, and America is reopening. This is great news for the millions of Americans who fear that they may not have a job to return to. It is also a confirmation of President Trump’s emphasis on supporting small and mid-sized businesses that were either shut down or damaged as a result of the Covid-19 response. In two weeks, we will see the impact on a state-by-state basis of reopening economies and we’ll be able to compare Covid-19 case numbers over the last month and a half with state reopening data and employment results. It is easy to predict that those states which have been more aggressive in reopening while maintaining basic safety standards will show maximum growth with very little disease impact.”

“It is time to www.ReopenAmericaNow.org, and truly kick our economy back into high gear.”

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June 3, 2020, Fairfax, Va.–Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s statement that he “would not” have signed the FISA renewal warrants against Carter Page had he known that Christopher Steele’s source for his dossier had contradicted Steele’s false allegations of a Trump-Russia conspiracy:

“Rod Rosenstein’s bombshell admission that he was wrong in signing the FISA renewals on Carter Page, based on the Horowitz report findings of misconduct and deception and withheld information is incredible. If Rosenstein is telling the truth that the origins of the Steele dossier and its veracity were withheld from him by the FBI, as the acting Attorney General responsible for the investigation, and due to that he signed the FISA warrant under false pretenses, this would provide one more example of the top leadership at the FBI engaging in a wholesale of coverup of exculpatory information in order to overturn the results of the 2016 election.

“Rosenstein’s testimony puts former FBI Director James Comey, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and former Agent Peter Strzok squarely in the legal hot seat. This must never happen again and Congress is duty bound to ensure that any FISA reform meets that standard.”

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May 28, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting they hypocrisy of a report on dark money released by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.):

“Senators Schumer, Whitehouse and Stabenow sounds like a slip and fall trial lawyer firm straight from the pages of a John Grisham novel, but not even the slimiest lawyer from those pages could match the hypocrisy of this trio of Democrats U.S. Senators.The ultimate obfuscating Three Musketeers of Senate Democrat dark money just released an unintentionally ironic ‘report’ on the dangers of dark money. Of these Chuck Schumer and Sheldon Whitehouse better avoid ultraviolet light which would show dark money drenching their finely tailored suits like blood stains in a crime drama.

“Schumer is notorious for his dark money ties to groups like Majority Forward which was the biggest dark money spender in the 2018 election cycle and is gearing up in their attempt to elect the shifty New Yorker to the Senate Majority slot in 2020. But this association is not new, in 2015, Schumer affiliated Senate Majority PAC received a cool $1.7 million for shared staff, office space and other things. Shared staff and office space means that Schumer’s dark money complaints have all the credibility of Inspector Renault’s proclamation in Casablanca that he was ‘shocked, shocked’ to see gambling going on in Rick’s Place, even as his winnings are handed to him.

“Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is almost as shifty, but his overall unctuousness gives him a special place in the hypocrite Hall of Fame.  Whitehouse actually credited dark money for helping him raise so much cash in 2018.  Whitehouse even went so far as to say that, ‘he hoped’ dark money groups would give to his 2018 re-election campaign.

“While Debbie Stabenow’s appearance with the dynamic duo of dark money is interesting, the fact is that her appearance with the power craving Senate Minority Leader Schumer and Senator Whitehouse splatters her with the fake protestations of those she chooses to associate with.

“The world doesn’t need Chuck Schumer lecturing it about dark money out of one corner of his mouth while directing dark money operations out of the other. The fact that Schumer and Whitehouse believe that they can play this ugly D.C. political game without being laughed out of the room by the media, is a commentary on both their and the media’s cynicism.”

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May 28, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging the U.S. Senate to confirm Russ Vought as the next Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget:

“Russ Vought is the right man for the job of Director of the Office of Management and Budget, having already ably served as deputy and acting director of OMB during Mick Mulvaney’s tenures at the Consumer Finance Protection Board and White House Chief of Staff. With unprecedented levels of emergency spending to deal with the pandemic-caused recession, U.S. taxpayers need a smart steward of their tax dollars to carefully protect all of the additional spending from waste and fraud. In addition, Vought has already carefully managed OMB’s other duty of reviewing regulations to ensure compliance with federal law and administration policy. There is no one more qualified to meet our nation’s fiscal and regulatory challenges than Russ Vought.”

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May 26, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to a Politico story with a former Obama official saying “This is my big worry… It’s high — high, high, high, high” that the economy will begin a rapid recovery from the COVID-19 depression before the election in November:

“If there was ever any doubt why Americans should reject the tyrannical socialist party from ever holding power again, it is revealed in a Politico story chronicling how Democrats and those close to Obama are worried that America will recover too rapidly from the government induced depression. Incredibly, Team Obama are actually rooting against more than 30 million Americans finding a job and restarting their lives and being able to chase their dreams as the shutdowns end around the country.  Team Obama actively is celebrating empty store fronts, corporate bankruptcies and the harm done to our nation’s tourism industry and all those who work at hotels, rental car agencies, airlines, taxis, and entertainment facilities.  And Team Obama fears that America will get back to work, because it might help President Trump’s re-election bid.

“It is beyond disgusting that the quest for power so overrides every consideration that the left would rather have tens of millions of Americans unemployed and dependent upon the largesse they hand out, than to see the economy rebound from this unprecedented Chinese-originated virus driven unemployment catastrophe. Words suitable for print are not available to convey how any right thinking American must feel when confronted by the reality that the dreams of 30 million people are seen as little more than a necessary price to pay in order to gain power and push their big government agenda.”

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May 22, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals decision to give Judge Emmet Sullivan 10 days to respond to the former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s writ of mandamus to dismiss his case at the Justice Department’s urging:

“US v Fokker Services was decided by the same DC Circuit Court of Appeals four years ago covering the very same issue that Judge Sullivan is raising in his attempt to allow third party entities to inject themselves into a criminal matter when they disagree with prosecutorial decisions. For point of information:  Sullivan’s position is directly counter to the ruling in Fokker.

“Sullivan will now have to either argue that the Fokker decision is wrong and should be overturned or he will have to argue that the Flynn case is substantially different than Fokker. To make this argument, he will likely need to rely upon a public interest argument based upon the political nature of the criminal case, effectively subjecting anyone in the political spectrum to a politicized trial rather than the traditional trial of their peers. It is important to note that the Court did not invite outside groups to argue for or against Sullivan’s position, effectively taking the position that only those with standing can weigh in: Flynn, DOJ, if they wish and they should, and Sullivan.

“The clear objective of the Sullivan attempt to ignore settled law was to delay the outcome of the Flynn case until after the November election in the hopes that should the President lose, the DOJ decision would be changed by the newly elected President’s Justice Department.  The legal maxim which many believe was coined by mid-19^th century British Prime Minister William Gladstone that justice delayed is justice denied definitely applies to the legal abuse of Lt. General Michael Flynn.  After all the lies, obfuscations and cover ups by the FBI and Obama Justice Department holdovers, the only just decision for the DC Circuit Court of Appeals is to rebuff Judge Sullivan and either demand that he sign the dismissal or remove him entirely from the case.  Of course the latter outcome would further delay the inevitable dropping of the case and further aggrieve an American hero who made the mistake of wanting to serve as National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump.

“It is time to free Mike Flynn.”

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May 20, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting a resolution by Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) to condemn references to the Chinese coronavirus or the Wuhan virus:

“The virus which has shut down much of the world killing hundreds of thousands of people started in Wuhan, China.  China then protected its own people by denying travel from Hubei Province (where Wuhan is) to the rest of their country, while continuing to allow travel from that area to the rest of the world.  China denied and the World Heath Organization repeated the lie that the virus was not transmittable between humans, creating a false sense of security that it could be contained using less aggressive measures.

“Now, China is engaged in a full court press of blame shifting rather than taking an honest look at their decisions which either inadvertently or purposefully spread the deadly China-originated virus around the world.

“And California’s junior Senator Kamala Harris and twenty four of her least astute colleagues have jumped on the China propaganda bandwagon by introducing a virtue signaling resolution condemning references to the China virus as the Wuhan virus.

“When Americans decide who is going to put them first versus China, Senator Kamala Harris has sent up an irrefutable smoke signal that she and many of her fellow Democrats in the Senate are fully incorporated members of the Chinese propaganda machine.  But the good news for Harris is that she is not the California Senator who has done the most damage to the U.S. on China’s behalf.  That distinction belongs to Dianne Feinstein who employed a Chinese spy as her driver for almost two decades, who during that time (2009 -2014) served as Chairperson of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

“If this makes you as mad as it makes me, please go to www.StopChinaThreat.org and sign the White House petition.”

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May 20, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump for providing regulatory relief to small and large businesses to jumpstart the economic recovery needed after the COVID-19 pandemic:

“President Trump’s decision to provide regulatory relief to jumpstart the economy and get Americans back to work is the exact right step as America begins to reopen.  It is absurd to not provide the presumption of innocence to businesses trying to get back into the game when it comes to simple paperwork violations of regulations, and the President’s decision will allow small business owners, in particular, to focus on what needs to come first, getting back and operational.

“Also, expediting regulatory relief through the rulemaking process is essential to lift excessive burdens from those trying to restore our nation’s economy.  Let’s be clear, one of the primary reasons why the Obama/Biden recovery was hollow can be traced directly to that administration’s love affair with strangling job creators with red tape.  Rather than returning to that red flag mistake, President Trump is wisely allowing honest small business people with the leeway to succeed, while retaining laws which protect worker safety.

“Once again, we see that President Trump gets it, that economic growth doesn’t come from Washington D.C. or Albany, N.Y., but rather by the freedom to risk and succeed endemic in our free enterprise system.”

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