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Statement | September 4, 2026

Treasury Department Holds Educational Institutions Accountable

The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) applauds Secretary Scott Bessent for the Treasury Department’s newly proposed rules clarifying that educational institutions that discriminate based on race in their offerings may lose their tax-exempt status.
Op-Ed | September 4, 2026

Europe’s digital agenda is a gift to China

Powerful AI chips are moving into China again. As Beijing does everything it can to close the gap with American AI companies, the U.S. and its European allies should pursue a trade and technology agenda designed to keep that gap open.
Statement | September 3, 2026

AFPI Urges Supreme Court to Reject Arbitrary Firearm Feature Bans in Viramontes v. Cook County

The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) filed an amicus brief today urging the U.S. Supreme Court to protect the Second Amendment rights of all law-abiding Americans. At issue is whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles. The Court will hear arguments in Viramontes v. Cook County during its upcoming term which begins next month.
Statement | September 3, 2026

AFPI Brief Defends Parents’ Role in Children’s Mental Health Decisions

The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) Legal Team filed an amicus brief on behalf of Dr. Jennifer Bauwens, who serves as Director of American Values at AFPI. The brief urges the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to uphold a permanent injunction protecting parents from school policies that conceal and facilitate a child’s social transition without parental involvement.
Statement | September 2, 2026

Small Businesses Need Reliable, Affordable Energy

Today, the America First Policy Institute’s (AFPI) Ted Ellis, deputy director for Energy and Environment Policy, testified before the House Committee on Small Business Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Supply Chains, on the need to power American businesses.
News Release | September 2, 2026

AFPI Releases Issue Brief on The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and Its Negative Implications

This week, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) released a new issue brief, The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact: No Checks, Just Imbalances, under AFPI’s Election Integrity Initiative.
Op-Ed | September 2, 2026

California’s affordability crisis threatens America’s defense industrial base

America is investing billions to build the world’s most advanced ships, aircraft, missiles, autonomous systems and satellites. But those investments mean little if we do not have the welders, machinists, technicians, engineers and mechanics to build and maintain them.
Issue Brief | September 2, 2026

Back the Blue: A Policy Roadmap for Better Staffed, Better Supported Law Enforcement

“Many of the best parts of America’s history would have been impossible without police. All the freedoms we enjoy — freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear — sit on a foundation of public safety” (Bratton, 2015). These words were spoken by William Bratton, the current Co-Chair of the Homeland Security Advisory Council and the former commissioner of six police departments, including Boston, Los Angeles, and New York. Commissioner Bratton couldn’t be more spot on: prosperity is impossible without public safety, and public safety is impossible without police.

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