March 22, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to Special Counsel Robert Mueller turning in his final report to Attorney General William Barr without any prosecutions for Russia collusion:

“Robert Mueller’s providing a final report to Attorney General William Barr ends almost three years of investigation into candidate and then President Donald Trump in relation to Russia. Every media outlet owes President Trump a non-stop apology for their continued claims that there was a conspiracy and that his presidency was illegitimate. Mueller ended his investigation with zero prosecutions of Trump campaign officials for conspiracy with Russia to hack the DNC and Podesta emails.

“This false narrative driven by a toxic combination of the Clinton campaign, the Democratic National Committee and the Obama Justice Department, State Department, FBI, CIA and other foreign policy intelligence operatives demands that Attorney General Barr either immediately prosecute those involved in this destructive attack on our constitutional system of governance and the electoral process.

“Many of the facts are already in the public domain but justice demands declassification of the internal Department of Justice documents used to justify this attempt to overthrow the results of a presidential election.”

Attachments:

“Whatever happened to the U.S. Attorney investigations into the Deep State and the Clinton Foundation?” March 19, 2019 at https://getliberty.org/2019/03/whatever-happened-to-the-u-s-attorney-investigations-into-the-deep-state-and-the-clinton-foundation/

Interview Availability: Please contact Americans for Limited Government at 703-383-0880 ext. 1 or at media@limitgov.org to arrange an interview.

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March 18, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in support of a provision of President Donald Trump’s budget that will phase out and end federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting by the end of 2021:

“The Trump budget would end federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with $60 million over 2020 and 2021 being used for close-out costs and transitioning to a non-federally funded model. This limits the size and scope of government and gets Washington, D.C. out of the business of broadcasting in the streaming age with thousands of options for programming on television, the computer and radio. The fact is stations that directly benefit from CPB whether on NPR or PBS can survive on their own without federal dollars. Public television stations only get about 15 percent of their money from the federal government. They won’t miss it, and might even raise more money without it by losing the stigma of being publicly funded.

“If Congress won’t end this extravagance when our $22 trillion national debt poses an existential threat to our nation, it is hard to imagine them making much harder choices in the future. There is simply no reason not to embrace ending funding for a vanity program that is self-sustaining without taxpayer dollars.  President Trump has provided a 15-year pathway to balance and Congress would be well served to get aggressive on their Excel spreadsheets and cut even more to save our nation from fiscal ruin.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Americans for Limited Government at 703-383-0880 ext. 1 or at media@limitgov.org to arrange an interview.

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March 15, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in support of President Donald Trump vetoing a resolution overturning his national emergency declaration on the southern border:

“President Trump did the right thing by vetoing the resolution that sought to stop him from building the wall. It is unconscionable for anyone to think that the President does not have a constitutional and legal right to declare an emergency on an issue that directly impacts America’s sovereignty and national security as the integrity of its borders. We urge Americans to contact their Congressmen and Senators and tell them to sustain the President’s veto in order to address this emergency and humanitarian crisis. Americans for Limited Government has launched SustainTheVeto.org to make it easy for folks to contact their representatives.”

Attachments:

“President Trump to veto Congressional resolution attempting to stop him from building the wall,” By Robert Romano, March 15, 2019 at http://dailytorch.com/2019/03/president-trump-to-veto-congressional-resolution-attempting-to-stop-him-from-building-the-wall/

Interview Availability: Please contact Americans for Limited Government at 703-383-0880 ext. 1 or at media@limitgov.org to arrange an interview.

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March 14, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging President Donald Trump to veto a resolution disapproving of his national emergency declaration on the southern border, and for Congressional Republicans to sustain the veto by launching http://sustaintheveto.org :

“President Trump is well within his constitutional authority vested in him to veto a resolution by Congress overturning his national emergency declaration on the southern border, and that is absolutely what he should do. Congress has failed to adequately secure the border, leaving President Trump with little option but to use Congress’ limited grant of authority to reprogram uncommitted military construction funds to build the wall and other fencing needed to keep drugs, gangs and human trafficking at bay. It is then up to Republicans in Congress, enough of them, to vote to sustain President’s veto, doing everything in their power to help President Trump secure the border and address the national emergency and humanitarian crisis there.”

Attachments:

“Senate to pass meaningless resolution blocking Trump from building wall that Trump will just veto,” By Robert Romano, March 6, 2019 at http://dailytorch.com/2019/03/senate-gop-to-pass-meaningless-resolution-blocking-trump-from-building-wall-that-trump-will-just-veto/

“If Congressional GOP votes to overturn national emergency declaration to build wall, they will prove President Trump is right about the swamp,” By Robert Romano, Feb. 22, 2019 at http://dailytorch.com/2019/02/if-congressional-gop-votes-to-overturn-national-emergency-declaration-to-build-wall-they-will-prove-president-trump-is-right-about-the-swamp/

Interview Availability: Please contact Americans for Limited Government at 703-383-0880 ext. 1 or at media@limitgov.org to arrange an interview.

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March 14, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging the Senate to reject a resolution disapproving of President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration on the southern border:

“Congress has never voted to overturn a national emergency in 43 years with more than 50 emergencies, even when the ‘national’ emergencies were problems overseas. Only now is it acting in an instance where the problems are here in the U.S. It does not care about the discretion it granted to the President or it would have acted to rescind these authorities long ago. And it is true this wouldn’t be necessary if Congress would do its job and secure the border. Having a Congress that refuses to defend this country is an emergency, and President Trump has done the right thing within the limited powers that Congress has granted, to secure the border.

“Congress has every power to delegate limited fiscal reprogramming authority to the President, in this case to utilize uncommitted military construction funds to address the national emergency and humanitarian crisis on the southern border with drugs, gangs and human trafficking continuing to press on the southern border. Yet, members of the U.S. Senate are acting like Congress never passed such a law. If the question is hypothetically, absent Congressional authorization, can the President just spend however much money he wants, of course, the answer is no, under the Constitution it is Congress that must first act.

“Well, it has. Congress passed the National Emergencies Act and it is perfectly constitutional, and is no different than Congress’ authority to appropriate huge sums of money for broad purposes, leaving it to departments and agencies to determine how best to meet those goals via the contracting process. It is no different than the limited transfer authority Congress grants agencies every fiscal year. To pretend that this bit of discretion is different from all the other discretions it has granted is disingenuous at best.”

Attachments:

“Senate to pass meaningless resolution blocking Trump from building wall that Trump will just veto,” By Robert Romano, March 6, 2019 at http://dailytorch.com/2019/03/senate-gop-to-pass-meaningless-resolution-blocking-trump-from-building-wall-that-trump-will-just-veto/

“If Congressional GOP votes to overturn national emergency declaration to build wall, they will prove President Trump is right about the swamp,” By Robert Romano, Feb. 22, 2019 at http://dailytorch.com/2019/02/if-congressional-gop-votes-to-overturn-national-emergency-declaration-to-build-wall-they-will-prove-president-trump-is-right-about-the-swamp/

Interview Availability: Please contact Americans for Limited Government at 703-383-0880 ext. 1 or at media@limitgov.org to arrange an interview.

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March 11, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement on the President’s proposed budget for 2020:

“President Trump’s budget creates a framework for a return to fiscal responsibility with $2.7 trillion of spending reductions off the baseline over 10 years, including saving $236 billion in interest payments, and Congress should use it as guide to ending our bi-partisan plunge toward national financial disaster.

“The first step toward fiscal sanity is for Congress to fund the government based upon the current spending caps, and reforming mandatory spending programs, rather than continuing to spend beyond the previously agreed to means. The President’s budget follows this prescription, and gets the budget towards balance. It’s up to Congress

“The truth is that the national debt is set to skyrocket if Congress fails to act. The debt and the ever increasing costs of interest payments on that debt are the greatest threat this country faces over the long term.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Americans for Limited Government at 703-383-0880 ext. 1 or at media@limitgov.org to arrange an interview.

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March 8, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement on the latest jobs numbers:

“The March jobs report will be one of the most watched since President Trump took office.  These reports are simply snap shots in time so individual reports can have ups and downs, and next month’s report will tell us if the good news of continued strong employment as shown in the unemployment rate drop to 3.8 percent in the household survey is accurate, or if the very meager job creation number from the establishment survey is of concern.

“The fact that reports on employer and consumer sentiments toward the economy remain strongly positive plus the household survey showing 255,000 more people saying they have jobs leads me to believe that the jobs number is an anomaly as the three month average of that survey remains a robust 180,000 jobs per month. As the impact of the prior Congress’ tax cut bill continues to kick in through business investment, and the negative effects of anticipated rising interest rates no longer are a factor, it is reasonable to assume that the economy will continue growing. However, one possible headwind is the dearth of labor available to hire demonstrated by the reported 7 million plus more jobs than workers available to fill them.

“The first two years of the Trump administration has been focused upon bringing sidelined workers at about 9 million when he took office back into the workforce, and they have been successful dropping the number by more than 2 million.  However, if job creators cannot find people to fill those jobs, they will automate or find other ways to grow or put expansion plans on hold.  Since Congress is not going to enact a rational immigration policy to meet our economy’s needs, and they will also not reduce benefits to those who choose not to work, the job creation number may become less of an economic indicator than in the past as alternative means to get work done productively will be the obvious alternative to the labor shortages they face.”

Attachments:

“Government does not create jobs,” By Rick Manning, March 8, 2019 at http://dailytorch.com/2019/03/government-does-not-create-jobs/

Interview Availability: Please contact Americans for Limited Government at 703-383-0880 ext. 1 or at media@limitgov.org to arrange an interview.

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March 6, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting the House of Representatives for not yet scheduling a vote on a resolution condemning anti-Semitism:

“It is shameful that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer has not scheduled a vote in the House of Representatives rebuking the on-going anti-Semitism demonstrated by Democrat Representative Ilhan Omar.  It is even more astounding that Omar continues to hold her seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.  Both political parties used to be committed to the idea of ‘never again’ when it comes to anti-Jewish hate, but apparently the House Democrats, led by Hoyer, fail to realize that never means never.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Americans for Limited Government at 703-383-0880 ext. 1 or at media@limitgov.org to arrange an interview.

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March 5, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging President Donald Trump to veto a resolution blocking his emergency declaration on the southern border:

“The Senate vote on a resolution blocking President Trump’s emergency declaration on the border is little more than a show vote. President Trump should immediately veto the legislation knowing that it will be sustained in both houses. The President has absolute constitutional authority to protect our nation’s borders, and if that’s not enough Congress has delegated additional limited authority to the executive branch that clearly supports his emergency order. If Congress wants to rescind powers that it gave decades ago they should pass separate legislation doing that. It is time for both the Republicans and the Democrats in Congress to come to grips with the fact that Donald Trump is President and stop trying to create a different set of rules for the Trump presidency than have been applied to any other chief executive prior to his tenure.”

Attachments:

“If Congressional GOP votes to overturn national emergency declaration to build wall, they will prove President Trump is right about the swamp,” By Robert Romano at March 5, 2019 at http://dailytorch.com/2019/02/if-congressional-gop-votes-to-overturn-national-emergency-declaration-to-build-wall-they-will-prove-president-trump-is-right-about-the-swamp/

Interview Availability: Please contact Americans for Limited Government at 703-383-0880 ext. 1 or at media@limitgov.org to arrange an interview.

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