Budget, Spending, & Taxes

AFPI California and Minnesota Back HHS Move to Verify $1 Billion in Medicaid Claims

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The America First Policy Institute's (AFPI) California and Minnesota chapters today released the following statements after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) deferred more than $1 billion in federal Medicaid payments to the two states, including roughly $867.5 million to California and $199 million to Minnesota, pending documentation that flagged claims meet federal requirements.

AFPI’s Ken Blackwell Submits Comment to OMB on Proposed Election Rulemaking

Today, the America First Policy Institute’s J. Kenneth Blackwell, chair for Election Integrity, submitted a public comment to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on a proposed rule which would ensure that federal funds are not used to support partisan election-related activities.

America First Foreign Assistance Wins on the 1 Year Anniversary of the Closing of USAID

The United States has long been the leader in foreign assistance, and on the one-year anniversary of the reorganization of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), that has not changed. The restructuring of U.S. foreign assistance saw oversight of all foreign assistance programs transferred to the State Department as USAID had deviated from its alignment with American foreign policy goals and become fiscally wasteful—high overhead costs, revolving contracts directed at beltway insiders at the expense of cultivating self-sufficiency by on-the-ground grassroots actors, and ideological programs pushing first-world agendas over developing-world needs.

Statement on Reconciliation

AFPI-FL Applauds Legislature’s Passage of Historic Property Tax Relief Amendment

Bob Rommel, Florida Chapter Chair of the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), today issued the following statement after the Florida Legislature approved a constitutional amendment to dramatically expand the homestead exemption and put Florida on a path toward eliminating property taxes on primary residences