May 26, 2023

Today Advancing American Freedom (AAF) issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed resolutions to block President Biden’s student loan bailout and climate overreach.

“The Biden administration’s massive overreach was rejected by the House of Representatives twice this week, as Republicans and Democrats came together to say ‘no’ to the extremism emanating from the White House. Using the Congressional Review Act (CRA), the House voted to overturn Biden’s exorbitant student loan bailout and climate overreach rules,” said AAF Executive Director Paul Teller. “We applaud these efforts and will continue to champion them as they move on to the Supreme Court and the Senate.”

Background
The CRA is one of several effective tools for Congressional Republicans to stop President Biden’s regulatory overreach and hold the Biden administration accountable. The climate rule would have burdened Americans with tens of billions of dollars of new regulations, and the student loan rule was estimated to cost close to half a trillion dollars. AAF also filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case on Biden’s student loan bailout that will be decided on in the coming months.

Friday evening, Advancing American Freedom (AAF) filed an amicus brief defending the rights of parents and arguing that school administrators cannot hide life-altering decisions about a child from the parents. In the Leon County case school officials encouraged the appellant’s daughter to use a new name and new pronouns and adopt a new personality while seeking to hide these important decisions from the parents.

“The fact that Florida schools could hide life-altering decisions from parents about their children isn’t just bad policy, it’s foolishness. It is unthinkable that woke school districts think they can make better choices than parents can,” said AAF Founder Vice President Mike Pence. “This is why we must stand for parent’s rights, resist divisive woke policies, and stand strong for families in Florida and across America.”

“The Far-Left’s education policies have no place in deciding if parents are notified about their children’s decisions, parents always have the right to know,” said J Marc Wheat, AAF General Counsel. “Advancing American Freedom will continue to stand with parents in our courts for their right to be informed and to parent their children.”

Background:

This is the third amicus brief AAF has filed defending the rights of the parents against woke school policies that disrupt the family unit.

AAF filed the first amicus brief for the Linn Mar school district and launched a parents’ rights campaign in February.

In March, AAF filed its second amicus brief in Massachusetts.