Defense

AFPI Releases The Veterans First Agenda

This week, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) released a new issue brief, The Veterans First Agenda: Expanding Access and Improving Care for America’s Heroes, under the America First Warfighters Coalition. This brief outlines reforms to improve veterans’ healthcare by expanding access, strengthening patient choice, and increasing accountability across the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system.

AFPI Releases Expert Insight on How Foreign Military Sales Can Strengthen U.S. Security and America’s Industrial Base

From Weapons to Wages: How Foreign Military Sales Create U.S. Jobs

Decades of offshoring of manufacturing jobs have hollowed out the American industrial base, including the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), leaving America’s ability to secure its interests in a degraded state. Between 2000 and 2016, the United States lost nearly five million manufacturing jobs, leaving entire communities deprived of the durable, high-wage work that once anchored them and which formed so much of American life until recent decades.

AFPI Applauds NDAA, Advances in Election Security in Congress

The America First Policy Institute welcomes House consideration of the FY27 NDAA and its focus on rebuilding America’s defense industrial base, restoring military readiness, strengthening deterrence, supporting service members, securing critical supply chains, and cutting waste, fraud, and abuse.

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.