Jan. 17, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to President Donald Trump canceling a planned trip by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to Europe, Africa and Asia on military aircraft:

“At a time when there is a partial government shutdown, it would be a slap in the face of those federal workers who have been sidelined due to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s unwillingness to negotiate border security funding measures for the Speaker to go on a seven-day, worldwide junket. The President’s cancellation of the Speaker’s ability to utilize military aircraft for this trip is appropriate and it is hoped that the Democrats who recently partied in Puerto Rico and Pelosi herself who spent the first week of the shutdown in Hawaii will finally get serious about protecting our nation’s security and build the wall.”

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Jan. 16, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to a letter from Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) urging President Donald Trump to sign a bill reopening the federal government without wall funding for three weeks to supposedly allow time for negotiations:

“It would be an extraordinary mistake to open the government without the funding of border security including the wall as part of that agreement.  The truth of the matter is that if the Democrats wanted to open the government, a deal could be hammered out in under 24 hours which included steel border barriers, more border patrol and ICE officers as well as an increase in immigration judges to help those seeking amnesty to receive a speedier decision, and humanitarian aid for those who have crossed the border illegally so that their detention pending disposition is safe, secure and meets their medical and other basic needs.  If Senator Coons wants to end the government shutdown, he and six of his Democratic colleagues should present the President with a proposal which includes funding steel barriers along with other security and humanitarian needs that could serve as a baseline for negotiation. Until then, the rest of it is just being cruel to those sidelined government workers whose paychecks remain unfunded.”

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Jan. 16, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) call to postpone the Jan. 29 State of the Union Address:

“Speaker Pelosi today admitted that she is so afraid that Democrats will hear President Donald Trump’s reasonable message about border security that could end the government shutdown that she pleaded with him through a letter to delay the State of the Union now scheduled for Jan. 29. Speaker Pelosi knows that her own caucus wants a negotiated agreement that both funds a barrier and meets the humanitarian needs at the border. She also knows that the legislative branch including the Capitol Hill Police are fully funded and operational, making any security concerns nothing more than a fantasy.

“Rather than delivering the State of the Union in Congress, the President should consider delivering it in writing and then televise the speech from the southern border adjacent to a tent city overflowing with illegal immigrants waiting for processing. It is Nancy Pelosi who is refusing to come to any answer to meet the security and humanitarian crisis at the border and it is Pelosi who should receive the phone calls of millions of Americans who are tired of her political malpractice.”

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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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