Policy issues

Fiscal Update: Appropriations Process at Congress’ Summer Break

If leadership succeeds in combining annual spending caps and the debt limit in a single bill for the second year in a row, they can argue the precedent is the new normal.  Leadership would usurp even more authority from individual legislators, diminishing our republican form of government. 

Primer: Impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and the Left’s Regulatory Agenda on the US Auto Industry

While the Biden Administration presented the Inflation Reduction Act as a means of containing the record inflation destroying household incomes, the legislation was in truth a legislative vehicle for enacting large swaths of the radical Green New Deal.

Policy Brief in Brief: The US Military May Be Used to Secure the Border

The following is a summary of a full-length legal case for the President’s authority to deploy the military against border invasion.

Tariffs and Trade Wars

When two countries engage in escalating protectionist measures, you have a trade war, but good jobs with fair wages in healthy communities are worth fighting for.