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Fact Sheet
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July 21, 2026
Tennessee: The Great American Comeback
Tennessee shows what pro-growth policy delivers: no state income tax, unemployment far below the national rate, record-breaking investment, and now the largest federal tax relief for working families in a generation under the Working Families Tax Cut (WFTC)—enacted as the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) and signed July 4, 2025.
Bill Analysis
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July 20, 2026
Tennessee’s Immigration Package: A Model for the States
HB 1704 was enacted on April 21, 2026. The bill establishes two new crimes. First, the bill creates a misdemeanor crime for aliens who: (1) have been “denied admission, excluded, deported, or removed from the United States or has departed the United States while an order of exclusion, deportation, or removal is outstanding,” and (2) intentionally enter the state.
Statement
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July 2, 2026
AFPI on the Walz-Ellison Pardon: Minnesota’s Leaders Handed a Child Rapist a Clean Slate
MINNEAPOLIS, MN — The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) today released the following statement after the Minnesota Board of Pardons cleared the record of Tou Lue Vang, an illegal alien convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl. The pardon strips away the convictions that made him deportable, just a week before he was set to be removed from the country.
Policy
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July 1, 2026
Saving America Through Growth & Security: Top 5 Reconciliation 3.0 Policies to Build on America First Wins in Congress
The following outlines five must-have elements for Congress to consider in its third reconciliation package to promote an agenda of economic growth and security that will: Keep America safe by fully funding national security, replenishing our munitions, and ending sanctuary cities (while non-reconcilable, reauthorizing FISA is a priority); Secure our elections by requiring a voter ID; Keep our children safe by ending men and boys in girls’ sports, and banning child sex mutilation; Grow our economy, including the exclusion of capital gains for owner-occupied housing; Ending corruption and the abuse of taxpayer money by codifying fraud reforms identified by Vice President Vance and the Fraud Task Force.
Statement
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June 30, 2026
America First Policy Institute Responds to Supreme Court Decision on Birthright Citizenship
The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) today responded to the United States Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in Trump v. Barbara, holding that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present are “subject to the jurisdiction”of the United States and thus citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.
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