The Senate today passed the CHIPS+ Act, a bill that would hand over tens of billions of tax dollars to domestic production of semiconductors. CEI Senior Fellow Ryan Young denounced the bill as unneeded corporate welfare: “The best policy for giving taxpayer money to private businesses is: Don’t. Unfortunately, the Senate seems to think the best way … Continue reading Senate-Passed Corporate Welfare “CHIPS” Bill Won’t Help U.S. Companies Out-Compete China
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On Monday, Gun Owners of America (GOA) and the Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) filed a motion for a preliminary injunction against the Biden Administration’s “Ghost Gun” and Gun Registry Final Rule, which will go into effect on August 24. Today, GOA and GOF were joined by the Attorneys General of 17 states in the filing: Arizona, … Continue reading Seventeen State Attorneys General Join GOA in Filing for Preliminary Injunction Against Biden “Ghost Gun” Rule
Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.), House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), and House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) today called on New York Governor Kathleen Hochul to provide full and complete data about former Governor Andrew Cuomo’s deadly order sending … Continue reading Investigation looms as Hochul covers up data on nursing home COVID deaths scandal
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House floor to warn about severely underfunded pension programs and that relying on taxpayers for bailouts is not a solution: Republican Leader Foxx’s remarks:“At the state and local levels, public employees are often promised defined benefit pension plans that are subsidized through … Continue reading Lavish government union pensions on verge of $5.8 TRILLION collapse
Americans for Prosperity Vice President of Government Affairs Akash Chougule issued the following statement urging defeat of the so-called CHIPS Act under consideration in Congress this week: “Poll after poll underscores what we are hearing firsthand at our ‘True Cost of Washington’ tour events across the country – the biggest problem facing Americans right now … Continue reading Americans for Prosperity Opposes CHIPS Act Corporate Welfare
According to FOX News, recently uncovered posts show that PA Senate candidate John Fetterman previously signed pledges to supporting an outright ban on fracking in Pennsylvania and new fossil fuel leasing nationwide, which supports tens of thousands of PA jobs. Overall, the fossil fuel industry in Pennsylvania supports about 50,547 jobs, a 2021 report published by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental … Continue reading Fetterman signed pledge to outlaw fracking, imploding economy
Today marks the legal deadline, under the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, for President Biden to submit his Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 budget. Last year, the White House set a record for the latest a Presidential budget request has ever been transmitted to Congress in modern history. House Budget Committee Republicans joined … Continue reading Biden misses legal deadline to submit federal budget
Today, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), led a group of Republican colleagues in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General Christin Grimm requesting an audit of the Biden Administration’s $10 billion COVID-19 vaccine public education campaign, which was launched in March … Continue reading Audit Sought of Biden’s $10 Billion COVID-19 Vaccine Public Education Campaign
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), joined 12 Republican senators to introduce the Transparency and Honesty in Energy Regulations Act, a bill to prohibit the federal government from using the flawed social cost of carbon, social cost of methane, social cost of nitrous oxide, or the social cost of any other greenhouse gas metrics in the rulemaking … Continue reading Inhofe Joins Lankford in Introducing Bill to Stop the Flawed Social Cost of Carbon from Driving Energy Regulations
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) released analysis showing Democrats’ proposal to significantly expand Obamacare tax subsidies would add billions of dollars to the federal deficit to the benefit of wealthy Americans. The analysis was in response to a letter requesting the true cost of an expansion of premium tax credits (PTC) sent … Continue reading Nonpartisan scholars confirm Dems Obamacare subsidy blowout costs billions more than claimed
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