Tennessee shows what pro-growth policy delivers: no state income tax, unemployment far below the national rate, record-breaking investment, and now the largest federal tax relief for working families in a generation under the Working Families Tax Cut (WFTC)—enacted as the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) and signed July 4, 2025.
The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) today released the following statement from Joshua Treviño, senior fellow for the Western Hemisphere Initiative, in response to the Department of War’s partnership with Panama to protect the Western Hemisphere.
There has been overwhelming bipartisan support from the public in favor of the prohibition of stock trading by members of Congress, with 86% of the public supporting legislation that would prohibit them from trading stocks of individual companies.
HB 1704 was enacted on April 21, 2026. The bill establishes two new crimes. First, the bill creates a misdemeanor crime for aliens who: (1) have been “denied admission, excluded, deported, or removed from the United States or has departed the United States while an order of exclusion, deportation, or removal is outstanding,” and (2) intentionally enter the state.
It was the morning after President Trump’s surprise victory in the 2016 election. Just before 8:00 a.m., I walked into the Brewster Building at East Carolina University to make copies for an exam I would be proctoring later that day. I was in my second year of graduate studies in American history, and after the previous night’s dramatic election results, I was curious to see how the campus was taking the news.
For 75 years, America slowly engineered whole foods out of its diet. Under the Trump Administration, it started engineering it back in.
Tonight, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) released the following statement.