Former Hill staffer, former Heritage, now working on advancing American freedom @AmericanFreedom. Vice President of the Plymouth Institute for Free Enterprise
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I’m honored to be joining @AmericanFreedom as VP of the Plymouth Institute for Free Enterprise, where my team and I will be excited to champion the values that have defined America.
Much of what has made America great first took root at Plymouth Colony in the 1620s:
• A bold, pioneering spirit
• Personal devotion to God and family
• Self-government and the consent of the governed
• The seeds of constitutionalism and the Rule of Law
• Property rights and economic freedom
Over the four centuries since, these ideals became a beacon to the world—from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution to the liberation of Europe and Ronald Reagan’s “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” speech.
Yet American freedom has also lived in the quiet dignity of individuals, families, pastors, farmers, and business owners pursuing what they feel called to do.
To keep this freedom and our nation thriving, the American people must carry its torch, and the federal government must remain constrained by the Constitution. At AAF, we will advance this vision as we look forward to celebrating the 250th anniversary of America’s independence!
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🧵💸New Ukraine “aid” bill would bring the total to over $173 billion, over $1,300 per American household and over $11,500 per Ukrainian household.
This will continue to drive higher inflation and mortgage rates across the US – making every American family pay the price.
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🧵🚨Welfare expansion (including for illegals), more handouts, and INFLATIONARY deficits!🤯
Tax Bill is “Light on Tax Relief and Heavy on Welfare Expansion”
“The Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act is first and foremost a repudiation of the principles of successful, pro-family welfare reform.”
· “The bill would generate $155 billion in new federal deficits through fiscal year 2025, adding upward pressure on inflation and interest.”
· “Subsidizing Illegal Aliens. Under current law, illegal aliens who have children that were born in the U.S. (and many do) can claim welfare benefits from the ACTC. The Ways and Means bill expands these welfare payments for millions of people who are in the U.S. illegally, and for millions more entering in the future—exacerbating a current design flaw in the program.”
· “In the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act (TRAFWA), 91.5 percent of the “family benefits” are cash welfare, not tax relief for working families.”
· “Because of the retroactive and temporary nature of most of the expensing provisions, the proposed TRAFWA would lead to little or no economic growth.”
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🚨🧵The Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act is a Trojan Horse
Though branded as full of middle-class tax cuts and pro-growth reforms, checking inside this Trojan horse instead reveals a mixed bag that includes welfare expansions, corporate windfalls, and inflationary deficits.
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Biden says our economy is: "the envy of the world"
Food prices - up 21%
Gas prices - up 35%
Mortgage Interest Rates - up 159%
Clearly, Biden forgot what planet he's on.
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The private sector knows…
Forecast looks like we’re doomed to 4 years of a booming economy.
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🤯🧵🚨 Biden's Budget is FULL of TAX HIKES on hard-working American families.
Almost $36,000 of tax hikes per family!
$4.9 trillion in new taxes and over $2 trillion in more spending of YOUR money on the woke agenda.
And more for Ukraine! 💸
This aims to increase GAS PRICES with over $100 billion in new taxes on traditional energy sources.
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I’m pretty sure inflation is why people are talking about inflation:
Food prices - up 20% under Biden.
Gas prices - up 36% under Biden.
Interest alone on a new mortgage consumes 40% of a median worker’s pay.
But don’t worry about that, you just enjoy your “it’s transitory” ivory tower.
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Today's dollar is worth 3.2 pennies out of a pre-Fed dollar (December 1913)😡
However much you hate the Fed, you don't hate the Fed enough!
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In 2023, the federal government spent an astonishing $50,000 per household. Instead of fighting for Congress to get a handle on its spending addiction, leadership is using budget gimmicks to claim that it has made cuts, and kicking the can down the road yet again.
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Buried in the news cycle - A new congressional report says that:
1. Biden's flood of illegal aliens will reach 8.7 million🤯
2. Which will cost taxpayers an additional $278 billion in welfare costs over a decade!
That's $2,100 per American household! 😡💸
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Good time to remember that Congressional Democrats tried to pass a law to deny Trump secret service protection.
democrats-homeland.house.gov…
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💸💸💸Ever seen a picture of the government stealing $3.3 TRILLION in the blink of an eye???
Look at this chart 🫢🤯
The government has used inflation to partially default on it's debt - so much for federal debt being a "safe" asset.📉
The combination of reckless federal spending - paired with the Fed as the getaway car driver - has meant that inflation has drained trillions in real value out of the assets of American families.
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Biden: "America has 1,000 trillionaires"
Me, knowing the Fed can, in fact, create that much inflation:
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The bulk—91.5% to be exact—of what is being described as “middle-class tax relief” is, in fact, an expansion of welfare benefits. This provision would amount to a whopping 32% expansion of this welfare credit by 2026.
To make matters worse, a tax filer would be able to claim this new enlarged additional child tax credit with an individual taxpayer identification number instead of a Social Security number, meaning that many of these new payments would go to illegal immigrants (This was another shortcoming of the TCJA that is not fixed in this bill.) 🤯
The legislation does not fix existing work requirements for individuals to receive the “additional child tax credit,” which, unlike the ordinary child tax credit, exclusively goes to individuals and couples that pay no income tax. Sadly, this feature was begun in the Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) in 2017.
The bill would also add a lookback provision for the work requirement, so that if a household doesn’t work enough in 2024 to qualify for the credit, but they did in 2023, they would be allowed to receive the benefits based on the prior year of work. In other words, to qualify for the benefits, it would be enough to work part-time, part of the year, even if you only work every other year. That’s a step backwards.
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Mortgage rates under Trump - DOWN from 4.2% to 2.8%
Mortgage rates under Biden - WAY UP from 2.8% to 7.2%
That's Bidenomics for you...
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Chopping down a forest in the name of environmentalism perfectly showcases both the corruption and incompetence of the Left all in one 🤦♂️
First, the MI state government restricts access to this land, then makes it available only for a “green” project funded by the federal government to install Chinese solar panels.
Oh, by the way, the forest they want to chop down sequesters more carbon dioxide than they claim the solar panels will address - so, even within the world of liberal logic, this doesn’t make sense.
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President Biden: "If I was smart, I'd go home now"
Finally, he tells the truth 🤦♂️
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Another $730 per household in brand NEW inflation taxes are set to hit once the “aid package” becomes law 🤦♂️
Never forget, the government has a monopoly on legal violence and doesn’t have any reason to care about your quality of life.
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A few facts to make your blood boil on Tax Day…
The federal government will:
1. Tax 38,000 per household in 2024 😡
2. Spend $50,000 per household in 2024 🤯
So, every cent you earn all the way from Jan 1 through April 28th will go to federal taxes and inflation taxes (through the deficit).
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The US federal government spent more than TWICE as much on foreign aid in FY 2023 as it did on child nutrition programs in the US...
$66 billion in foreign aid vs. $31 billion for domestic child nutrition programs.
Keep that in mind as you watch the DC Cartel meltdown over the idea of getting rid of foreign aid programs.
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I'm proud to stand with both of you!
I stand with my @Heritage colleague @PrestonBrashers in stating the obvious fact: NAZIS ARE BAD.
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🚨First year Interest costs on a new typical mortgage have SURGED to over 41% of median wages under Biden. 🤯
Up from just 16.6% when Trump left office.
Why? Reckless federal deficits with a debt that’s $260,000 per household now and set to go to $380,000 in just 10 years! 🔥
The more the swamp spends your money, the more it drives inflation and interest costs through the roof!
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If this new bill is implemented, our total aid to Ukraine will be more than the annual wages paid out to every American worker in all agriculture, mining, and oil and gas extraction industries.
Another glaring example...
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Want to know why prices are up over 20% - a $15k cost for a median family- since Biden took office?
The federal debt! Inflation is the hidden tax they don’t tell you about.
Inflation is how YOU and your family feel the burden of the $260,000 per household federal debt - inflation is essentially the credit card payment you’re forced to make because of reckless federal spending.
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We’ve now topped $1 trillion in federal interest payments - much more than we spend on the military 😳 - and the fiscal year isn’t even over yet…
Well over $8,000 per household just in interest each year!
This is the debt death spiral we’ve been warning about.
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Then why did you single Trump out to be denied protection?
There is no room in American democracy for political violence. I am grateful for law enforcement’s fast response to this incident.
I am glad the former President is safe, and my thoughts and prayers go out to everyone involved.
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Did you know that the government imposes massive tax penalties on job training?
While the government has taxed and printed trillions of dollars to fund woke and government directed “education” programs, if an employer wants to train workers to give them new and productive skills – we tax them into submission.
This is a crucial and often overlooked aspect of the debate. This piece of federal law - 26 USC 127 – imposes this tax treatment. Read below to see how it works and what can be done to fix it.
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🚨Uniparty is moving a $95 billion "aid" bill.
$60 billion for Ukraine, bringing the total over $1,300 per American household in inflation driving deficits!🤯
Spending would go into 2025, potentially tying the hands of a future president - perhaps forcing them to spend our money on a war that could be brought to a close sooner.
This bill could set up a catch-22 where the President would be required to spend these funds, even if the war was over.
A president (perhaps Trump) that successfully stopped the violence would now have to break the law to stop the funding spigot. Or, he would have to continue to drive deficits higher - and inflation and interest rates along with it - just to hand funds over to the Ukrainian government and large defense companies with lobbying ties to the DC cartel - at the expense of hard working American families.
This could put Trump between a rock and a hard place of either facing another phony impeachment or allowing the swamp to plunder yet more of the life savings of Americans through inflation.
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Just a chart of spiking credit card delinquency rates during the era of Bidenomics...nothing to see here 👀
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Truly despicable…this is yet another “just following orders” regime.
The British police have reached a new low. They’re targeting children for the “crime” of carrying their own national flag. Think about that. Kids holding the cross of St. George, a symbol that should be their birthright, are treated like potential criminals.
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Moderator: “Do you think Americans are better off than they were 4 years ago”
Harris: So…uh…ummm…I have a random tax deduction
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🚨New Orwellian policy just dropped:
The woke Biden Admin wants to use your money to allow children full and UNSUPERVISED access to the internet to "Learn Without Limits"...
...learn what exactly 🤔🚨...don't worry, I'm sure TikTok and the Chinese Communist Party have already got the curricula lined up...what could possibly go wrong?
Imagine your child accessing WiFi on their school bus, or borrowing a WiFi hotspot from your local library to be able to use at home. This and more will be possible through our Learn Without Limits initiative.
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Ever wonder why Bidenomics isn't working?
Biden's 10-year Budget:
Federal Taxes per household in 2025 - $41,600
Federal Taxes per household in 2034 - $60,600
Monthly Net Interest costs 2034 - $600
Monthly Net Interest costs 2034 - $900
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🚨 INFLATION IS BACK UP 🚨
Wonder why?
The Fed has worked to quietly pump another $650 billion newly created dollars into the market over the last year.
This artificially gave the economy a buzz before the election, but now comes the inflation hangover.
As the money supply goes, so goes prices...
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What Biden means by "their fair share" is that he wants to steal another $2 trillion from American businesses... which will raise prices on your family, reduce wages for workers, and stunt economic growth...all to fund handouts to liberal elites.
There is nothing fair about this at all.
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🚨New Jobs Report 🚨
Yet another massive downward revision of the job numbers - 589,000 fewer jobs than the Biden Admin claimed!
68.5% of job growth in January were in areas that are heavily subsidized by the government!
The Jan jobs report is one more parting gift from the outgoing Bidenomics regime 🤦♂️
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🚨🚨New GDP numbers out - yet ANOTHER depressing quarter under Biden🤦♂️
This marks the THIRD quarter in a row of the government growing faster than the economy!
That's socialism at work as the woke left-wing government eats everyone else's lunch off the buffet table - all while the personal saving rate falls off a cliff and is less than half what it was pre-pandemic.
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🚨The DC Cartel is at it again 🚨
Tens of billions of dollars in new spending and dozens of new bills stuffed into 1,547 pages of the DC Cartel’s newest bill.
The table of contents alone is 14 pages long!
The government runs out of money in three days and they have taken this opportunity to leverage the manufactured “crisis” to pass new legislation without public consideration.
This is an insult to the American people and a corrupt abuse of the Constitution. We need @DOGE now more than ever!
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A perfect reminder that knowledge is power.
The right wants to ensure that knowledge belongs to the people - to families, workers, entrepreneurs, and innovators.
The left wants government bureaucrats to have a monopoly on knowledge, and with it, control over our society.
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Never forget what the Fed took from us - the dollar has lost 97% of its value.
Government money printing destroys the value of the dollars you own. It debases the currency, steals your purchasing power, and makes you poorer.
The combined cost for the American "Rescue" Plan (2021) and the Inflation "Reduction" Act (2022) was over $3 trillion ($3,000,000,000,000).
Where do you think that money came from? They printed it.
Inflation did not start with the passage of these bills but they did accelerate it. Just because inflation has slowed, does not mean your dollar's value has returned. The damage is done. 🔥
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Wonder why the economy never fully recovered from 08?
Government has been eating the investment dollars out of everyone's lunch!
Gov debt liabilities have grown 162% as a share of household debt liabilities since right before the Great Recession through now...
...How much higher do you think government debt will go?
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Every time the federal government spends money, it forcefully takes that money from hard-working Americans.
Even if you don’t pay federal income taxes, you still pay through inflation taxes and slower overall economic growth.
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Remember to wish the Fed a happy birthday today and…
…thank them for inflating away 97% of the dollar’s value over the last 111 Christmases! 🤔
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Funding wars abroad while ignoring our own national defense is breathtakingly incompetent - even when compared to the norm for the deep state cartel 🤦♂️
Foreign nationals break into our country. They burn our flag. They wave the flag of the regime they supposedly “fled.” Then they demand we let them stay.
This isn’t immigration. It’s an invasion—cheered on by cowardly politicians and professional anarchists who hate America but love her welfare checks.
Enough. This isn’t about politics. It’s about preserving the republic.
The solution? Mass deportations.
Not someday. Now.
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Price increases are a result of reckless government spending and money printing.
Calls to ban "price gouging" are purely the arsonists blaming the fire fighters.
The cost of production has actually risen faster than consumer prices (see below) - businesses are eating some of the cost of government burdens and NOT passing those costs on to consumers.
*The blue line is a rough average of the 4 stage of production PPI indexes and is not weighted.*
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How many new voters can the Left buy with over $13 billion of your money??
Federal refugee, migration, and entrant "assistance" is up 175% ($4.8 billion to $13.17 billion) since pre-pandemic levels 🤯
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At least the global elite aren’t hiding their intentions anymore 🤦♂️
This bill will effectively steal $730 from each and every American Household to fund the woke DC Cartel agenda around the world 😡
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🚨🤯Fast facts on interest costs in Biden's budget:
Net Interest on the federal debt would average a jaw-dropping $760 PER MONTH per American household over the next 10 years!
That's quite the monthly credit card bill💸😱...
The debt would reach roughly $370,000 per household in FY 2034 and we'd spend 25% more on net interest than on the entire department of defense!
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Since the beginning of COVID and dramatic federal deficit and Fed money printing increases, prices are up:
37.4% - used cars and trucks
30.4% - energy
24.4% - food
20.1% - overall housing costs
18.8% - overall
But it gets even worse...
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🚨Congressional leadership, using Israel as cover, is set to shove another $95+ billion 💸💸💸 spending bill through Congress…where…you guess it…
More than half the money will go to Ukraine!
Over $370 MORE per household to Ukraine. Get your credit cards out…more inflation taxes are coming!
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Nearly HALF of all federal income taxes are going just to pay interest on the debt!
This is why inflation and prices are so high why your dollar has lost 97% of its value since the Fed was created.
Final numbers for fiscal year 2024
Total US govt revenue = $4.918 trillion
Interest on natl debt = $1.133 trillion
23% of all govt revenue went to interest on the debt.
2025 fiscal year started Oct 1st, we are on pace for 30% of all govt revenue going to interest payments.
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According to Trump’s figures earlier today, we’ve already spent $2,700 per American household on Ukraine!! 😡
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Our total aid to Ukraine would be more than the annual wages paid out to every American manufacturing worker that produces motor vehicles, parts, and other transportation equipment.
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Remember to thank your local Federal Reserve for stagnation.
This is the economy media kept calling us stupid for not loving 🤪
Chart from the based @RealEJAntoni
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Walz is trying to convince us he cares about women when he signed laws encouraging mutilation of child and allowing predators into girls rooms.
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The 20% jump in prices over the last almost 4 years is just one of the taxes you pay the government.
No matter who wins the election, the US government's debt of $35 trillion is set to soar.
"Whenever the government commits to spend a dollar, it’s committing to steal a dollar," @RichAStern of @Heritage says.
My @NewYorkSun latest:
nysun.com/article/no-matter-…
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Invasion across the border
Ships being seized on the open seas
American troops under threat of attack
Inflation on fire 🔥 and the dollar weakened
This is the leftist global elite agenda - where Americans do all the work and our enemies profit.
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Through pure lunacy and incompetence, Biden's Admin armed the Hamas butchers.
When the left cries for more of your paycheck and more inflation taxes to fund more bureaucrats, this is what they want.
It's time to end the DC Cartel before it ends us.
middleeastmonitor.com/202306…
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🤯💸Biden's budget would send the federal surging from $280,000 per household next year to well over $369,000 in 10 years!
This will drive both inflation and interest rates much higher - especially interest rates on mortgages and small business loans - strangling the economy and meaning decades of lower wages and lost growth.
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That awkward moment when you realize that the deep state would rather start WWIII and end the world than face justice under Trump…
Today, I am announcing the delivery of $725 million in additional weapons and equipment for Ukraine’s defense. The United States and more than 50 nations stand united with Ukraine.
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Check out this meme coin that has gone up almost 11,000% in the last 60 years!
Oh no, wait, that's just the U.S. federal debt 😱
The debt has crossed $35 trillion...more than the construction cost of EVERY single home in America and over $267,000 per household!
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Thanks Kamalanomics for ruining 40 years of stability in the housing market🤦♂️
. @RichAStern : "Since Biden And Harris Took Office The Cost Of Interest On A Mortgage Has Tripled"
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Mortgage Rates - Trump vs. Biden
Trump - DOWN from 4.09% to 2.77% 😎💰
Biden - UP from 2.77% to 6.86% 😱🫣
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They've pulled back the curtain and confirmed that the global elite cabal is really running the show in the WH 🤯
Historic. This is a national security crisis.
If Biden cannot manage the demands of a presidential campaign, how can he be trusted to lead the world's most powerful nation?
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🚨New Economic Data - Growth is on the way!
✅Investment in new jobs and growth is up 22%!!
✅ Exports are up!
✅Government waste and theft shrank a little!
Don't listen to the Media about the latest GDP report
US businesses flooded imports in before the tariffs, which artificially brought down the GDP figure - but the true economy did NOT decline.
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The federal debt has increased by 950% since she joined the swamp 🤯
This crazy lady screaming about "President Musk!" is the most powerful Democrat in Congress on all things US federal budget. She was Chair of the House Appropriations Committee for the first 2 years of Biden & has been the #1 Democrat there since the GOP won the 2022 midterms.
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The tragedy in New Orleans this morning is yet another reminder that the entire West is under a brutal assault.
And, yet another reminder that the out going government cares more about covering it up and open borders than they care about Americans.
“This is not a terrorist event. What it is right now is improvised explosive devices that was found.”
Something is broken at the FBI if they cannot say that this is a terr0rist attack.
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Americans spend nearly $3,000 per household on tax compliance alone 😱.
That’s about half our defense budget!
That means that for every dollar we spend defending against countries like China, we spend 50 cents defending ourselves from the IRS 🤯😡.
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“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” - Matthew 5:9
Charlie was a rare visionary, a teacher, a leader, and a peacemaker that made it a point to engage with all sides and to bring conservative values to anyone who would listen. He will be missed and his legacy will live on.
The Heritage Foundation is devastated to learn about the loss of our friend, conservative leader, and American patriot Charlie Kirk.
Please pray that the grace of God may be with his wife and family during this incredibly difficult time.
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“Whenever the government spends a dollar, it commits to taking that dollar back—either through overt taxation or through the silent tax of inflation.”
The national debt is over $270,000 per American household. It has become America’s second mortgage. Only one solution leads back to prosperity: We must cut government spending.
@RichAStern heritage.org/debt/commentary…
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Bottom line - More Ukraine aid will mean more Fed money printing and more federal borrowing that drives inflation and interest rates and starves the economy of the money needed for growth.
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Happy Independence Day!! 🇺🇸
As you spend today with your family and friends - also thinking about how much more expensive your cookout is this year 🤦♂️
Remember to celebrate the traditional way...by thinking of ways to shrink the government!
Check out ideas below 👇
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Bidenflation annual inflation taxes are $18,000 per household higher than the Trump trend!! 🤯
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Assault on the middle class and American Dream in one chart:
A median home now costs 7.1 times a median wage! 🤯
It has jumped 65% from 4.3 in 1982 to 7.1 now!
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Whenever the government spends a dollar they first steal it from the hard working American that earned it!
“It’s not just a tax cut, and it’s certainly not a tax cut for the wealthiest,” says @RichAStern on Trump era tax cuts. “It’s tax reform that made it easier to invest in America.”
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Can't be said enough - Dems shut down the government so they can increase welfare spending by $1.5 trillion - $11,000 per household - and so they can give more welfare to illegal aliens 🤦♂️
The 'off ramp' for the shutdown is simple:
Democrats stop demanding health care for illegal aliens, the Senate convenes, and 60 senators vote for a clean continuing resolution. Period.
Republicans should not give in to the radical Left holding our government hostage.
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