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America First Women’s Initiative (AFWI), Women of Grace and Grit Roundtable

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blockquote {border-left: 4px solid #002868; padding: 1rem 1.5rem; margin: 1.5rem 0; font-style: italic; background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #2c2c2c; font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.6;} On the 105th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, AFPI’s America First Women’s Initiative hosted a Women of Grace and Grit roundtable in Washington, D.C. The celebration brought together trailblazing…

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President Trump’s New Rescissions Package to End Waste Fraud, and Abuse of Taxpayer Money

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Today, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) issued the following statement from Greg Sindelar, Interim President and CEO, regarding President Trump’s new $4.9 billion pocket rescissions package: “We are glad to see this decisive action by the Trump Administration that aims to save taxpayers nearly $5 billion by rescinding wasteful…

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AFPI Appoints Jessica Hart Steinmann as Vice Chair of the America First Women’s Initiative

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Stacey Schieffelin, Chair of the America First Women’s Initiative (AFWI), is proud to announce the appointment of Jessica Hart Steinmann as Vice Chair of AFWI, where she will help lead the initiative’s efforts to advance policies grounded in Transparency, Revitalization and Reaffirmation, Unity, Trust, and Health (TRUTH). “Jessica is a…

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Palisades Fire: Timeline of Key Events and Failures

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Updated November 11, 2025 December 2024–January 1, 2025: Pre-Fire Risk Assessment Ignored Numerous public agencies, including the National Weather Service, issued warnings about extreme wildfire risk due to drought conditions and high winds (Berzon et. al., 2025). At the same time, the Santa Ynez Reservoir was empty during the firefighting…

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Driving Rural Prosperity: The State of Rural America

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Working-Age Populations Shrink While Older Populations Grow in Rural America: Between 2020 and 2024, the top eight states that saw the most decline in rural counties were Illinois, Mississippi, Louisiana, West Virginia, New York, California, Pennsylvania, and Ohio Between 2010 and 2023, the number of rural Americans between the ages…

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Gazans Need Trump’s Solutions, Not France’s Statehood Theatrics

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France hopes that by recognizing a Palestinian state the plight of the Gazan people will evaporate. It will in fact get worse, and that is because this act of diplomatic virtue signaling will be a reward to the culprit for their suffering: Hamas. Hamas not only prolongs the war by…

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AFPI Supports Ending the Abuse of Cashless Bail Policies

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Washington D.C.— Today, August 25, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to end cashless bail for individuals whose pending criminal charges or criminal history demonstrate a clear ongoing risk to public safety to protect the American people. AFPI’s Position on Cashless Bail The America First Policy Institute…

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Make America Healthy Again by Reducing the cost of Health Care

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Americans Cannot Afford The COST OF Health Care Today Medicaid spending is spiraling out of control: the program cost state and federal taxpayers nearly $900 billion in 2024, providing coverage over 70 million people.Americans that earn $21,597 or less qualify for Medicaid in most states. Medicaid-eligible Americans would have to…

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Lee v. Poudre School District R-1

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Overview AFPI’s Center for Litigation has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review Lee v. Poudre School District R-1, a case that could significantly reshape the legal boundaries around parental rights in public schools.The case involves two Colorado families whose sixth-grade daughters attended a public middle school in Fort Collins.…

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The One Big Beautiful Bill Delivers for Georgia’s Working Families

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Here in Georgia, we know the value of hard work. From the fields of South Georgia to the small businesses along our Main Streets, it’s working families who keep our state strong. But too often, those same families have watched Washington bureaucrats take a greedy bite out of their paychecks…

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