Advancing American Freedom led a coalition of 36 other amici fighting the federal government’s weaponization of Title X funding to punish states that seek to protect life. Oklahoma’s life-protecting law has been on the books since 1907 and became enforceable when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. Consistent with its recognition of the value of unborn life, the State’s health department does not refer pregnant women to a hotline that will tell them how to get an abortion. In pursuit of a radical abortion agenda, the Biden-Harris Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) withdrew the State’s Title X funding by “reinterpreting” a statutory prohibition against such discrimination.
“The Federal administrative state has no authority to reinterpret statutory language to mean its opposite, yet that is exactly what HHS did here. The age of Chevron Deference is over. Courts must enforce statutes as written, not as read by unelected bureaucrats,” said AAF General Counsel J. Marc Wheat. “The Supreme Court should take up this case and rule for Oklahoma to ensure that the landmark decisions overturning Roe and Chevron are followed by the administrative state and lower federal courts.”
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“The Trump-Pence administration was unapologetically pro-life for our four years in office. There are hundreds of decisions made at HHS every day that either lead our nation toward a respect for life or away from it, and HHS under our administration always stood for life.
I believe the nomination of RFK Jr. to serve as Secretary of HHS is an abrupt departure from the pro-life record of our administration and should be deeply concerning to millions of Pro-Life Americans who have supported the Republican Party and our nominees for decades.
For the majority of his career, RFK Jr. has defended abortion on demand during all nine months of pregnancy, supports overturning the Dobbs decision and has called for legislation to codify Roe v Wade. If confirmed, RFK, Jr. would be the most pro-abortion Republican appointed secretary of HHS in modern history.
The pro-life movement has always looked to the Republican party to stand for life, to affirm an unborn child has a fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed.
On behalf of tens of millions of pro-life Americans, I respectfully urge Senate Republicans to reject this nomination and give the American people a leader who will respect the sanctity of life as secretary of Health and Human Services.”
For a record of the Trump-Pence Administration’s Health and Human Services on life visit here.
“The American people have spoken clearly through the ballot box and have elected conservative senators and congressmen in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Montana. We were proud to stand with these conservatives as they ran to advance a pro-growth economic agenda,” said AAF President Tim Chapman. “These results are not only a massive repudiation of the left’s policies, but a clear embrace of lower taxes and economic policy that will benefit American families. Advancing American Freedom will build on our targeted advocacy work in these states and continue to advocate for the policies necessary to help our nation thrive.”
Advancing American Freedom’s $5 million voter engagement campaign in the final stretch of the election identified and mobilized lower propensity voters in swing states, creating a new voting block that supports a conservative pro-growth agenda. AAF will continue to recruit and expand this new voting coalition to achieve greater long-term conservative policy victories.
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Advancing American Freedom led a coalition of 27 other amici fighting for the right of children not to have their healthy bodies permanently and harmfully altered as “treatment” for gender dysphoria—a right Tennessee sought to protect by outlawing such interventions. In United States v. Skrmetti, now before the Supreme Court, the Federal Government is challenging Tennessee’s common- sense law, claiming that it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. If adopted by the Court, that absurd interpretation, which would have been incomprehensible to those who drafted and ratified the Fourteenth Amendment, would further undermine America’s federalist system, turn the principles underlying the Equal Protection Clause on their head, and, most importantly, put children and families around the country at risk.
“The Constitution does not prevent states from protecting children from this sort of harm, nor would it have ever been ratified if it did,” said AAF General Counsel J. Marc Wheat. “The Federal Government must stop trying to impose San Francisco values on the rest of the nation, especially when it comes to children.”
Read the full brief here.
Former Vice President Mike Pence is launching a $3 million ad blitz in swing states to slam economic proposals from Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris — including her multitrillion-dollar tax hike.
Advancing American Freedom, a nonprofit conservative advocacy group founded by Pence, will run the digital ads in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Montana. His group also will distribute a “messaging memo” to Republican candidates competing in those states suggesting lines of political attack.
The ad campaign will highlight the economic successes of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by former President Donald Trump — and Harris’ plans to raise taxes by as much as $5 trillion if she is elected president.
“The Republican tax cuts in 2017 led to a needed economic boom here in Pennsylvania,” says Harrisburg, Pa.-based restaurant owner AnnMarie Nelms in one of the ads — before hitting Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey for voting against it.
That boom included an expansion of small businesses in central Pennsylvania and higher wages, according to Nelms, whereas she faulted Vice President Harris, 59, for wanting to “ram through the largest tax increase in American history.”
“If they raise our taxes, a lot of the small-business owners that I know won’t make it more than a year,” Nelms claimed.
Liane Taylor, a real estate broker and administrator in the business division of Montana’s Commerce Department, says in another ad that “rent and mortgage rates were affordable” after Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and before the Dems took over the White House. Pence was Trump’s veep at the time.
“Every business that I’ve even talked to just in the last couple of days is all for making those tax cuts permanent,” Taylor said of the reductions, which end in December 2025 unlesss renewed. “This has to stop. Don’t raise my taxes. Don’t raise anybody’s taxes.”
The ad also slams Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who is in a tough re-election fight against Republican challenger Tim Sheehy, for voting against the Tax Cut and Jobs Act.
New polling by AAF shows that a majority of Americans (58%) want lower taxes, including 68% of Republicans and 43% of Democrats.
In the group’s messaging memo distributed to Republican candidates in the states, the nonprofit also highlighted the all-time high of the real median household income of $78,250 under the Trump administration in 2019.
In total, real wages and salaries were $3.6 trillion higher than a Congressional Budget Office estimate on the tax cuts.
At least 5 million jobs were also added to the economy from when the Trump tax cuts were signed until the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The nonpartisan Tax Foundation found in a separate analysis last month that Harris’ economic agenda would cost the US 786,000 jobs while adding $4.1 trillion to the national debt.
The think tank also projected that the proposals would shrink the American long-run GDP by 2% and reduce wages by 1.2%.
Read the full article here at NYPost.com.
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