Lt. Gen (Ret.) Keith Kellogg on FY24 House Defense Appropriations Bill

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) released the following statement from Lt. General (Ret.) Keith Kellogg, Co-Chair of the Center for American Security at AFPI, regarding the proposed Fiscal Year 2024 House Defense Appropriations Bill: “For the last two years under this current administration, the military…

EXPERT INSIGHT: Proposed Overtime Rule Would Hurt Workers, Limit Flexibility

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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) on August 30 announced a new proposed rule to significantly expand the number of workers eligible for overtime pay. While the Biden Administration and Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su claim that such a rule would “help restore workers’ economic security,” in reality it would…

Grid Security: Evaluating the Effects of Reliance on Wind and Solar-Based Renewable Energy

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Introduction The United States’ electric system is composed of about 11,000 power plants, 160,000 miles of high-voltage power lines, and millions of miles of low-voltage power lines (Energy Information Administration, 2016, Government Accountability Office, 2023). Divided primarily into three major geographic regions, the United States electric grid supplies electricity to…

Be The Janitor

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This article originally appeared in the Daily Caller on September 17, 2023. Right in my backyard, in the city of Atlanta, we saw 9 shootings that left 6 dead and 15 wounded over Labor Day weekend. 96 Georgia teens and children have now died as a result of gun violence…

Be the Janitor

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This article originally appeared in Daily Caller on September 17, 2023 “Right in my backyard, in the city of Atlanta, we saw 9 shootings that left 6 dead and 15 wounded over Labor Day weekend…” Read full op-ed in Daiy Caller.

Linda McMahon on the United Auto Workers Strike

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) released the following statement from Linda McMahon, Chair of the America First Policy Institute as well as AFPI’s Center for the American Worker, regarding the United Auto Workers (UAW) decision to strike due to the failures of the Biden Administration’s…

Five Steps Toward an American Nuclear Renaissance

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Energy policy in the United States is at a crossroads. Spurred by environmental concerns, current federal efforts to replace fossil fuel electricity generation with wind and solar are making the nation’s grid dangerously unreliable. This vulnerability is due to wind and solar’s reliance on favorable weather conditions, coupled with the…

Competition cures high drug costs

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This article originally appeared in Washington Examiner on September 13, 2023 “Prescription drug costs have skyrocketed and become a growing financial burden, but the White House ’s drug price controls will not solve the drug affordability crisis. However, they will threaten the development of future cures and harm patient health…”…

Overregulation Harms American Manufacturing Workers

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American Defense Supply Chains Are Beholden to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

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The CCP Controls the Rare Earth Element (REE) Mining and Processing Operations That Are Key to our Most Sensitive Defense Systems Rare earth elements (REEs) play a critical role in American economic prosperity, energy independence, and national security. They are elements that are dispersed across the earth and therefore difficult…