April 1, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement reacting to New York Times’ Executive Editor Dean Baquet claiming that critical White House press briefings keeping the American people up to date on Chinese coronavirus are unimportant and that “they make little news”:

“In the New York Times’ world, blunders are news, gotchas are news, but actual information on how every American can help save lives in a time when the Chinese coronavirus is the only story is not news.  What a bunch of frauds. The White House should rotate the New York Times out of the White House press room twice a week in favor of someone who actually covers the news, and see how they scream that they are denied access.  Obviously, all the White House would have to tell the New York Times is that they don’t want to waste their time, since from their perspective the briefings don’t make news.”

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March 27, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging Congress to adopt rules that allow members to vote from home during a national emergency:

“Last week, Speaker Pelosi knew there was going to be a major piece of legislation from the Senate that the House would have to vote on, but she failed to pass temporary emergency rules changes to let members vote from home. This failure of basic planning and administration is the reason the House had to come back to town to vote on sustaining the U.S. economy during this emergency. It is morally wrong for the House or Senate to turn their responsibility to represent their constituencies over to a Speaker who only represents San Francisco, and a Senate Majority Leader who only represents Kentucky, and to turn these bodies into rubber stamps. The people have a constitutional right to be represented. Pelosi’s failure to plan for this basic constitutional right may be endangering lives and livelihoods across the nation. While they’re in town, they could change the rules right now.”

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March 26, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to the latest jobless claims numbers:

“The devastation of the Chinese virus has washed across the nation. No, it isn’t in millions ill and hundreds of thousands dying, no, it is the despair of unemployment as the weekly unemployment claims skyrocketed from 270,000 last week to 3.2 million this week. After the free enterprise system created a record economy with more people employed in history and fewer unemployed than at any time since the turn of the century, the response to the Chinese virus shutdown has crashed it. But jobs are more than a place to go, they are the embodiment of how we achieve our dreams, either through what we create or build or through what we do with the money we earn.

“The threat of the Chinese virus to cause as many as a million and a half deaths drove the shutdown decisions, but today we were given 3.2 million reasons to get America back to work as soon as possible. President Trump is right to push ahead in his efforts to defeat both the virus and the economic devastation it is leaving in its wake.”

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March 23, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting Congressional Democrats delaying passage of a Senate virus economic relief bill:

“Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s hijacking the Senate CARES Act in an attempt to extort everything from misguided election law changes to green new deal demands. It is clear that there is no honor in the Democrats who would rather throw our economy into a deep recession, than pass an emergency measure designed to provide a necessary safety net for our nation’s economy.  Pelosi and Schumer’s ploy is akin to a doctor stopping in the middle of an operation and re-negotiating rates.  Having already gotten their priorities met in the first and second bites of the apple, they now are seeking to derail the legislation which sets the restoration of the economy in place.  While many Democrats of Pelosi and Schumer’s age look at the presidency of FDR as the good ole days, it is rare that any of them actually attempt to throw our nation into a depression as their legacy.

“Senator McConnell should force them to vote every single day and once GOP Senators who have been in self-quarantine are able to come to the floor to vote, they should pass a rule that ends the filibuster when the nation is under a national emergency and pass the CARES Act and send it to Pelosi.  Let’s see if vulnerable Democrats will risk national economic destruction and personal political suicide to follow their leftist leader off of a cliff.”

Attachments:

Senate Dems hold economy hostage after demanding everything close to slow down Chinese coronavirus, By Robert Romano, March 23, 2020 at http://dailytorch.com/2020/03/senate-dems-hold-economy-hostage-after-demanding-everything-close-to-slow-down-chinese-coronavirus/

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March 20, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in support of the $1 trillion Senate plan to rescue the U.S. economy from the fallout of the Chinese coronavirus:

“In virtually every retail establishment with glassware there are signs that say ‘you break you buy it.’ It is in this spirit that Americans for Limited Government supports Congressional measures to ensure that 30 million small businesses nationwide are able to restart operations seamlessly once the public health emergency from the Chinese coronavirus ends.

“President Trump and the federal government as a whole made a decision that protecting potentially millions of lives, more than the total American losses in every war we’ve ever fought, superseded the current health of the U.S. economy. As part of this decision, the President and Congress have a responsibility to use our vast wealth to shore up individuals and businesses that are being put on the verge of bankruptcy overnight.

“If done correctly, the next two months will not only save potentially millions of lives, but will put America’s economy in a position to immediately rebound. Republicans and Democrats must work together to create solutions that recognize the economic plight that our nation has been thrown into, and set aside partisanship. We have to put American workers and businesses first so that after the virus, we can restore the economic miracle of the previous three years.”

Attachments:

“Trump virus response calls for covering payroll for every small business in America with $300 billion,” By Robert Romano, March 20, 2020 at http://dailytorch.com/2020/03/trump-virus-response-calls-for-covering-payroll-for-every-small-business-in-america-with-300-billion/

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March 18, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump’s nomination to head the White House Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought:

“President Trump got it exactly right by nominating Russ Vought to become the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.  Vought has proven himself to be an outstanding steward of the OMB during Director Mick Mulvaney’s stints as head of the Consumer Finance Protection Board and White House Chief of Staff.

“Our nation faces a perilous time with previously unseen levels of emergency spending to meet the Chinese virus crisis and its impacts on the economy.  Vought understands where this money is going and will help the President ensure that it is properly spent.  What’s more, there is no better person to prepare the way out of the economic disaster left in the wake of the Chinese virus, which has shuttered many American businesses in an attempt to contain it.  With Vought at the helm, America can be sure that a plan to achieve fiscal sanity will be in place when the threat subsides.

“I am also heartened by the fact that the lesser known part of the OMB’s functions, reviewing regulations, will continue under Vought’s steady hand.  To meet the Chinese virus challenge and come out the other end with a restored and robust economic rebound requires someone who truly understands the connection between the federal regulatory regime and economic growth.  In short, the President could not have appointed someone more qualified to meet our nation’s fiscal and regulatory challenges than Russ Vought.”

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March 18, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting the Food and Drug Administration for resisting expanded antiviral drug research and testing for the Chinese coronavirus:

“The Wall Street Journal reports that FDA government scientists opposed expanded anti-virus testing out of fear that it might do harm.  We have just effectively destroyed our national economy in an attempt to slow the spread of the Wuhan virus, yet these bureaucrat scientists opposed aggressive attempts to find a vaccine and cure?  This is beyond absurd, it is bureaucratic malpractice.

“One thing is clear, those who kept insisting that the ‘white lab coat guys’ be in charge of this health emergency should all shut up once and for all.  It is in the job description of bureaucrat scientists at the Food and Drug Administration that they be risk averse, and this very aversion is an obstacle to taking every step to avert a disaster that these very public health experts claim may kill more than a million Americans.

“Once again, it should be obvious to every American, that the last people you want in charge of your health care are government bureaucrat scientists whose existence is dependent upon their ability to take all downside risk out of medical treatments as they are a death sentence to both health care innovation and to those patients who have life threatening illnesses.”

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