Press Releases

March 13th

Advancing American Freedom Founder Vice President Mike Pence issued the following statement after the House passed legislation that would force TikTok to cut ties with the Chinese Communist Party.

“TikTok is digital fentanyl for America’s youth, and can be used as a technological weapon by the Chinese Communist Party, its potency was already witnessed in TikTok’s campaign to prevent this legislation from passing,” said AAF Founder Mike Pence. “Passage of this legislation demonstrates that appeasement to Communist China is over, allowing TikTok to continue operating in the United States while under CCP control is simply unacceptable. The Senate must take up this legislation as soon as possible and send to President Biden’s desk. AAF will never falter in our commitment to confronting China at home and abroad, the American government must not falter now.”

March 8th, 2024

I commend Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers for her strong leadership in securing passage of a bill forcing the sale of TikTok with a unanimous 50-0 vote of the House Energy & Commerce Committee.

The Trump-Pence Administration paved the path for this important legislation through an Executive Order intended to force the CCP to sell TikTok in 2020. Rather than put our country’s national security first, the Biden-Harris Administration demonstrated extreme short-sightedness and partisanship, revoking the Executive Order in 2021.

TikTok is Chinese spyware that allows the Chinese Communist Party to manipulate the minds of young Americans at will and compromises the privacy of millions of Americans.

The era of appeasing the Chinese Communist Party is over. Politicians claiming to be “tough on China” while simultaneously supporting TikTok spewing CCP-sanctioned propaganda across the world are wrong. China is poisoning the minds of American children. Enough is enough.

Congress should pass legislation forcing the sale of TikTok as soon as possible, and President Biden must immediately sign it into law.

March 6th, 2024

Advancing American Freedom issued the following statement ahead of the markup of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which would effectively force ByteDance to sell TikTok if they want to stay in the U.S. market.

“TikTok has been banned on all US government devices because it is a national security threat and acts as the puppet strings of Communist China to push their propaganda on the American people, and it cannot be allowed to continue to operate in our country unchecked,” said AAF Founder Vice President Pence. “The tensions with Communist China continue to mount and the United States must take the necessary steps to protect our country. This legislation is one of those necessary steps, and Advancing American Freedom urges Congress to move this legislation quickly through the markup process and bring it to the House floor for a vote.”

February 29th, 2024

Advancing American Freedom led an amicus brief with over 30 other amici on the FDA’S peeling back of safety protocols and the doubtful approval standards of mifepristone, an abortion drug.

“The Biden administration has prioritized abortion absolutism over safety when approving drugs and cutting out physicians supervision to make abortions more frequent in the wake of the Dobbs decision,” said J. Marc Wheat, AAF General Counsel. “The FDA’s decades-long avoidance of public review must end. The Court must not defer to the FDA’s interpretation, but should exercise independent judgement and recognize the FDA’s expansion of power that was not granted in the Constitution.”

Read the full amicus brief here.

February 29th, 2024

Advancing American Freedom issued the following statement after a bipartisan effort to override President Biden’s veto of legislation to stop China from receiving electric vehicle subsidies failed.

“President Biden has no problem subsidizing CCP companies here and in China at a cost to the American people.” said AAF Executive Director Paul Teller. “We need to be clear-eyed. The CCP is an existential threat to our economy and our national security. Not one American tax dollar should be flowing to CCP companies on the left’s sacred altar of climate change.”

February 26th, 2024

Advancing American Freedom led an amicus brief with over 30 other amici in Moyle v. US in which the Court will consider the legality of the Biden Administration’s interpretation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) as a vehicle for mandatory abortion in states with pro-life laws.

“The Biden administration is treating EMTALA like a Trojan horse, finding an abortion mandate in it for the first time since President Reagan signed it into law almost four decades ago,” said J. Marc Wheat, AAF General Counsel. “The Dobbs decision was clear, and pro-life states have made it clear through legislation they will protect innocent life and will not allow the Biden administration to use absurd interpretations of EMTALA to force abortions.”

You can read the amicus brief here.

February 8th, 2024

Advancing American Freedom filed an amicus brief in Murthy v. Missouri, a case in which medical professionals, activists, and two states sued the Biden Administration for its inducement of social media companies to censor speakers on their platforms, violating the First Amendment of the Constitution.

“The Constitution protects the freedom of speech from government abridgment, but the Biden administration sought to circumvent the First Amendment by engaging private parties, namely social media companies, to act as its speech police,” said J. Marc Wheat, General Counsel for AAF. “In totalitarian nations, dissenting voices are not allowed. But America has been and must continue to be a country of robust debates, of peaceful protests, and of government responsive to the people. The Supreme Court must uphold the Constitution and defend the right of free speech.”

Read the brief here.

February 6th, 2024

Advancing American Freedom issued the following statement after House Leadership announced the Senate border deal was “dead on arrival.”

“The House Leadership made the right decision to stand against the border bill,” said AAF Executive Director Paul Teller. “The crisis at the border was caused by Biden and Democrats who still refuse to do anything to address the crisis. Biden doesn’t need further authorities to do his job and close the border, and the House is right to not cave on the immigration loopholes that were included in the Senate supplemental. We encourage House Leadership to continue these firm tactics against other items coming out of the Democrat Senate.”