Sept. 10, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging Senate Democrats to choose between radicals and constituents on the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation:

“Senators Jon Tester, Heidi Heitkamp, Joe Manchin, Joe Donnelly, Claire McCaskill, Doug Jones, Sherrod Brown and Bill Nelson have to decide if they are going to stand with the loony left in opposing Brett Kavanaugh, or with their constituents who will actually determine their fates in the November midterms. Red state Democrats are in a bind about what to do about Brett Kavanaugh, an extraordinary legal mind and jurist who has been nominated to serve on the Supreme Court. If they vote against Kavanaugh, they will have a hard time holding their seats in the November midterms as their veneer as civil Democrats will be forever stripped away. If they vote for him to save their own skins, they risk dispiriting their base and jeopardizing the so-called Blue Wave as voters see President Donald Trump chalk up another win with them bearing the responsibility.

“The antics and attacks on Kavanaugh witnessed during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing must be renounced as their Democrat colleagues, like Corey Booker from New Jersey, made gigantic spectacles of themselves, as did the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer organized screaming protests in the Committee room.  America deserved a real discussion about the role of the federal courts in government, unfortunately, Senate Democrats did the nation a grave disservice this past week. Now, every Democratic Senator needs to choose whether they are going to stand with the outrageous protestors, or if they are going to stand with the common sense of the people who they purport to represent.”

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Sept. 7, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement on the latest jobs numbers:

“President Trump is not going to be judged on the traditional unemployment rate. He is going to be judged by the amount of people who are being brought back into the economy who had been left behind. To say that this jobs report is troubling would be an understatement, however, as it eviscerates many of the gains that have been made with new people in the workforce and the amount of people working. Labor participation dropped from 62.9 percent to 62.7 percent as those not in the labor force increased by 692,000.

“We strongly hope that this is an anomaly owed to the summer ending and many part-time employees and students heading back to school. The Federal Reserve should be very cautious before raising interest rates any more until we discover whether this report is the beginning of a trend or a temporary bump in the road.”

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Sept. 5, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to an oped allegedly written by a senior administration official that stated “many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda”:

“It is outrageous that a purported Trump administration official has allegedly written an opinion piece in the New York Times admitting to undermining the Trump presidency from within. In doing so, this author automatically impugns every other person in the Trump White House, as everyone now must be suspected of being part of the #NeverTrump resistance.  If the author of the piece has any of the honor that he or she claims by inference, then he or she should proudly stand behind their work and resign their position.

“In the meantime, every single person within the White House, starting with the National Security Council staff, should be polygraphed and anyone who fails or refuses to take a lie detector should be shown the door.  It is that simple.  It is time to rid the White House of the vermin who joined the Administration with a goal of undermining it.

“No president should be surrounded by simple yes men, but the author’s claim, that mirrors previous year-old media interviews with national security staff, demonstrates there are those within the White House staff who believe that they have the responsibility to veto decisions made by the duly elected President of the United States. The fact that President Trump hired a large number of staff which opposed his presidency was and is his original sin.  And while it seems shocking now, the fact these rats are now inspired to anonymously undermine him may turn out for the best if it forces the President to clean house in favor of those who actually support his agenda of Making America Great Again.”

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Sept. 5, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Foundation President Rick Manning today issued the following statement upon releasing the report, “Abuse and inefficiency rampant within U.S. civil service”:

“In order to limit the government and drain the swamp, managers in the federal government must be able to fire poor performing employees on an expedited basis. Right now, the current system protects bad employees. What was supposed to be a merit system has turned into an entitlement system for insulated, unaccountable federal employees. To drain the swamp, we have to be able to fire the swamp.”

Attachments:

“Abuse and inefficiency rampant within U.S. civil service,” By Natalia Castro, Sept. 4, 2018 at http://algresearch.org/2018/09/abuse-and-inefficiency-rampant-within-u-s-civil-service/

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Sept. 4, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning issued the following statement praising the selection by Arizona Governor Doug Ducey to replace the late Sen. John McCain with former Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.):

“Arizona Governor Doug Ducey made a wise choice in selecting former Senator Jon Kyl to fill the remainder of the term left vacant due to the passing of John McCain. Senator Kyl will be a steady, respected hand in the Senate who has the respect of his colleagues.”

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Sept. 4, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning issued the following statement upon delivering the key document central to the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Constitution:

“Judge Kavanaugh has vowed to uphold the Constitution, so perhaps it is time for the Senate to review that for a change. The Constitution is the only document that matters when it comes to the confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh, and his adherence to the meaning and intent of the nation’s governing document.”

To view online: https://getliberty.org/2018/09/alg-delivers-key-document-to-senate-judiciary-committee-the-constitution/

Attachments:

U.S. Constitution, 1787 at https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript

ALG delivers Constitution to Senate Judiciary Committee members, Sept. 4, 2018 at https://twitter.com/LimitGovt/status/1037008479549046784 and https://twitter.com/LimitGovt/status/1037008604841291776

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Aug. 29, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to the latest GDP numbers:

“The second quarter of 2018 was even better than initially thought by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, with an upward revision to 4.2 percent inflation-adjusted GDP growth. It is clear that the Trump trade, tax and deregulation doctrine is unleashing the pent-up economic potential in our economy. When combined with third quarter trade announcements with the European Union and now Mexico, the Trump economy is just beginning to take off. That is great news for all Americans.”

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Aug. 27, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising President Trump for reaching a new trade accord with Mexico:

“Former President Obama already attempted to renegotiate the trade relationship with Mexico and Canada when he failed at the Trans Pacific Partnership, which included those two countries. What was missing with any trade deal with Mexico was a commitment to America’s economic interests. President Trump’s determination to restore the U.S. manufacturing sector should give assurance to the American people that a new trade agreement with Mexico will provide better economic terms for U.S. workers, and hopefully end that giant sucking that Ross Perot correctly predicted.”

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Aug. 24, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to a report by the Wall Street Journal that former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen applied for reimbursements, not from the Trump campaign, but from the Trump Organization for the non-disclosure legal settlements in 2016:

“If Michael Cohen now believes he thought non-disclosure agreement payments to porn stars in 2016 were campaign contributions to ‘influence the election,’ then why did he go to Trump Organization and not the Trump campaign to be reimbursed? The fact is every American has a right under the Constitution to retain legal counsel to enter into just these sorts of legal settlements, and Congress cannot preempt those rights via legislation if it wanted to. The fact that federal prosecutors in New York would go ahead and create a crime out of nothing is just one more example of prosecutorial misconduct that has characterized this Justice Department.”

Attachments:

“Last year, Mr. Weisselberg arranged for the Trump Organization to reimburse Mr. Cohen, who had in October 2016 made a $130,000 payment to Stephanie Clifford, a former adult-film actress who claimed she had sex with Mr. Trump a decade earlier, in exchange for her silence about the alleged affair. A person familiar with Mr. Weisselberg’s thinking said he didn’t know that money was intended to pay Ms. Clifford, who goes professionally by Stormy Daniels, when he agreed in January 2017 to a $35,000 monthly retainer for Mr. Cohen. That month, according to charging documents filed Tuesday, Mr. Cohen gave executives at the Trump Organization a copy of the bank statement from his bank account for Essential Consultants LLC, the company he used to pay Ms. Clifford the previous fall. The statement reflected Mr. Cohen’s $130,000 payment to Ms. Clifford, as well as an additional $50,000 that Mr. Cohen added in handwriting was for ‘tech services.’ Executives at the Trump Organization ‘ ‘grossed up’ for tax purposes’ Mr. Cohen’s requested reimbursement, doubling it to $360,000, and added a $60,000 bonus, the document said. The next month, one executive at the company asked another executive to pay Mr. Cohen’s monthly retainer ‘from the trust’ and to ‘post to legal expenses.’” Wall Street Journal, Aug. 24, 2018 at https://www.wsj.com/articles/allen-weisselberg-longtime-trump-organization-cfo-is-granted-immunity-by-federal-prosecutors-in-michael-cohen-investigation-1535121992

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