Jan. 11, 2019, Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to Congressional passage of S.24 guaranteeing back-pay to federal workers in the event of any partial government shutdown:

“OMB should immediately eliminate the non-essential worker distinction as there is now effectively no difference between the two. Nobody should be allowed to stay home, not work and still ultimately get paid. The only reason for essential versus non-essential is because there is a presumed cost savings by not paying non-essential employees. By guaranteeing their pay, there is really no reason to have anyone stay home.”

Attachments:

“Congress agrees almost unanimously to pay furloughed federal workers after government shutdowns end,” By Robert Romano, Jan. 11, 2019 at http://dailytorch.com/2019/01/congress-agrees-almost-unanimously-to-pay-furloughed-federal-workers-after-government-shutdowns-end/

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Jan. 8, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s national address on the crisis at the nation’s southern border:

“It is stunning that the Democrats in Congress refuse to provide the basic border security tools, including a steel barrier that covers the top ten places that the Border Patrol has identified the greatest need, in the wake of the President’s speech showing that aliens have been charged or convicted of 100,000 assaults, nearly 30,000 sex crimes and 4,000 violent killings over the past two years.  Where are the concerns for the victims, the Kate Steinles who don’t make the headlines?

“How can the Democratic leaders look at their children knowing that 300 Americans die every week from heroin, 270 of them from heroin that came across our southern border? How can they tell their children that they did nothing to stop the dangerous trek from Central America to our border over which one in three women are sexually assaulted? And how can they look themselves in the mirror knowing that 20,000 migrant children were subjected to this abusive and dangerous journey and illegally smuggled into the country last month alone?

“Nancy Pelosi declared when she took the gavel as House Speaker that she was taking over for America’s children. If this is true, she should join President Trump in serious negotiations to establish border security including a wall that discourages the abuse of Central American children who are used as pawns in the human trafficker games that she is aiding and abetting by continuing to have an open border.

“It is time for every freedom loving American to contact Congress and demand that they fund our nation’s border security including a tall and strong steel barrier. Call tonight and let Congress know that you expect them to put our country first by funding both the national security and humanitarian priorities laid out by the President of the United States now.”

Attachments:

“President Trump is not backing down as he ups border ante in prime-time speech,” By Rick Manning, Jan. 9, 2019 at http://dailytorch.com/2019/01/president-trump-is-not-backing-down-as-he-ups-border-ante-in-prime-time-speech/

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Jan. 4, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging the Senate not pass H.R. 21 and H.J. Res. 1:

“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants all of her priorities funded without funding the basic national security needs of our nation, which includes building the southern border wall. The United States Senate should just ignore these Pelosi messaging bills as being nothing more than first day political theatrics, forcing Pelosi to get serious. President Trump has promised to veto funding bills that do not include wall funding and sufficient southern border security, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has declared them dead on arrival.

“The moment Pelosi assumed the new Speakership in a new Congress, all political deals from the past Congress were null and void, and the Senate and the President should jointly strip away all of the compromises given to the Democrats in the hopes of avoiding the shutdown.

“What is truly unfortunate is that 8 House Republicans, including House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Greg Walden and former House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, voted with Pelosi, giving legitimacy to her political stunt. Everyone in the House knew that splitting up the appropriations bills was a crass political ploy designed to allow Pelosi to fund her priorities while leaving the southern border unprotected from drugs, gangs and human trafficking.

“The decision by these 8 House Republicans is a direct slap in the face to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who has presented himself as a vigorous supporter of President Trump’s wall strategy. One of the hallmarks of Pelosi’s leadership in the minority was the ability to bring her entire caucus together to oppose Republican priorities. These 8 liberal Republicans present a foundational challenge to McCarthy’s leadership legitimacy and how he deals with them will define his tenure as minority leader.”

Attachments:

Americans for Limited Government has launched twin advocacy petitions to support the federal government’s constitutional responsibility to defend our borders and national sovereignty with http://buildwallnow.org and http://sustaintheveto.org  building the southern border wall and

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Jan. 4, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to the latest job numbers:

“The left-wing media has been desperately trying to talk down the Trump economic boom over the past two months citing the notoriously volatile stock market as their source of concern. Today’s unemployment report shows that the American economy remains robust with 312,000 jobs created, and average job gains for the past three months totaling an incredible 254,000.

“America continues our historic reversal of the Democrats death sentence for the manufacturing sector with more than 500,000 manufacturing jobs created over the past two years with 32,000 new jobs in December alone.  And overall, 2.88 million more Americans are employed now than were in December of 2017, and 4.8 million since President Trump took office.

“The truth is that Americans are working in record numbers, wages continue to rise modestly, our manufacturing plants are running on overtime and inflation remains stable with the unadjusted Consumer Price Index for the past six months running at 1.8 percent with the twelve month unadjusted rate at 2.2 percent. The unemployment rate remains quite low at 3.9 percent.

“The job and inflation facts are indisputable.  America is working, wages are rising, inflation is under control, and most of America should just now begin to realize the individual household benefits of the tax cuts.

“The Trump economy is making America great again as the government dependency cycle is being broken more and more each day through the best social program invented — a real, productive, meaningful job. Let’s hope that Speaker Pelosi doesn’t mess it up with higher spending and tax increases. Rather than seeking to impeach the President, the Democrats in Congress should be looking for ways to work with him to increase the wealth effect being created through this virtuous economic cycle.”

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Jan. 3, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement on the swearing in of the new Congress:

“Today America celebrates one of its time-honored traditions, the peaceful transition of power as the Democrats take over control of the House of Representatives. It is important to note that unlike two years ago, conservatives have not taken to the streets in protest, there are no masked unhinged rioters breaking windows and burning cars.  No, while conservatives will do everything within our power to win on policy matters, we do not wish soon to be Speaker Pelosi ill-will.  While we will continue our political clash over whether America has a right to protect our borders as it represents an existential threat to our nation, we won’t be taking over the offices of those who disagree, instead the American people will seek to remove them from those offices in two-years.  It is my sincere hope that Speaker Pelosi and her supporters recognize the difference between this peaceful transition and what their supporters have engaged in for the past two years and seek to restore some level of sanity on the left.”

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Dec. 28, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging President Donald Trump to hold firm on $5 billion of funding for the southern border wall:

“At the beginning of 2017, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader McConnell defined fully funding the wall at $12 billion to $15 billion. The President’s current budget request for $5 billion for the southern border wall is a dramatic compromise from the amount originally identified and promised as needed to complete the project. This shutdown fully and completely lies at the feet of Democrat leadership in the Senate that has refused the one-third, $5 billion compromise offered by President Trump.

“It is incredibly bad politics for Republicans to start negotiating with themselves through the media when the Democrats continue to turn a blind eye to the government workers they are furloughing. President Trump should not only hold firm on the $5 billion compromise, but should insist that Democrat priority spending in other parts of the funding bill be stripped effective Jan. 2, 2019.

“Americans for Limited Government urges that non-Department of Homeland Security spending be decreased by 1 percent for every week the Democrats refuse to adequately fund our nation’s border security. What’s more, the President and House and Senate Republican leaders should make clear that furloughed federal workers who are not working will not be paid at the end of the shutdown. While our hearts go out to those impacted by the shutdown through no fault of their own, a private sector worker in the same circumstance would not be paid for time lost, and the federal workers whose unions have aggressively supported Democrat leadership need to be held to that same standard.”

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Dec. 20, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging Congress to pass a measure to fund the southern border wall at $5 billion:

“Not passing $5 billion for the wall is making a choice to shut down the government, because Congress refused to provide border security for the nation. At the beginning of this Congress, both Speaker Ryan and Leader McConnell promised full funding for the wall. Now it is their chance to go out with a roar rather than the proposed CR whimper. It is no secret that President Trump has set the funding of the wall as a top administration priority. If Congress refuses to secure the southern border with a wall, he must veto the spending bill.

“It is a shame that Congressional Democrats have spent the past two years obstructing this common-sense policy, which they once agreed with, for political purposes. Putting petty politics ahead of our nation’s security is unacceptable. A veto will force them to choose between a government shutdown over Christmas, or a return to responsible governance. It’s time for Schumer and Pelosi to set aside their irrational hatred of President Trump and do what’s right for this nation.”

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Dec. 20, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging President Donald Trump to not sign the continuing resolution without adequate wall funding:

“President Donald Trump is exactly correct. At the outset of this Congress, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell promised to provide $12 billion to $15 billion to fully fund the wall. Now that we’re at the end of this two-year Congress, there is one last chance for them to fulfill this pledge, and it makes little sense for them to squander it. Should the short-term continuing resolution pass, President Trump should exercise his constitutional power to not sign the bill, shutting down part of the government, and negotiating a better deal. The failure of Congress to provide even basic security at the border by fully funding the wall is inexcusable and irresponsible. Americans for Limited Government has launched SustainTheVeto.org to support this President in his attempt to restore sanity to our nation’s funding priorities.”

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