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June 18, 2026

AFPI Applauds FTC Lawsuit Against WPATH Harming American Children

The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) released the following statement in response to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), along with the states of Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska, and Texas, filing suit against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) for allegedly promoting false and unsubstantiated claims to sell experimental medical transitions on American children.

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June 17, 2026

Senior ICE, DOJ, White House Officials Join America First Policy Institute

The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) today announced that three distinguished Trump administration officials have joined the organization, furthering strengthening AFPI’s leadership bench in immigration policy, law and justice, and strategic communications.

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June 16, 2026

AFPI Releases New Report on Benefits of DGAs for Health & Farmers

Today, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) released a new Issue Brief highlighting the impact of the updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Titled “Eat Real Food: How the Dietary Guidelines Help Make Americans Healthy,” the report details how the Trump Administration’s nutrition reset is aligning more than two billion taxpayer-funded meals annually with gold-standard nutritional science, emphasizing real, nutrient-dense foods like high-quality protein, healthy fats, whole milk, fruits, and vegetables.

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News Release | June 18, 2026

New AFPI Report: Iran Was China’s “Counter-Pivot” — And Operation Epic Fury Just Dismantled It

The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) today released a new report contending that China spent two decades using Iran as a tool to keep the United States distracted from the Pacific — and that Operation Epic Fury has now broken that architecture, handing Washington a lasting strategic advantage over Beijing.

Research Report | June 18, 2026

Iran as China’s “Counter-Pivot”: The Strategic Implications of Operation Epic Fury for America’s Competition with China

Certain commentators have raised the eye-catching question of whether Operation Epic Fury—the American prong of the joint U.S.-Israeli campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran—is "All About China" (Riboua, 2026). It is an arresting contention that overstates the case that Epic Fury principally aims to end the half-century of threats to the American people from the Iranian regime: from hostage-taking to IEDs maiming American soldiers in Iraq, from the sponsorship of terrorist movements across the Middle East to its arsenal of ballistic missiles and its pursuit of nuclear weapons capable of threatening the region and beyond.

State Model Policy | June 18, 2026

Modernizing Employment Data Act

The unemployment insurance (UI) system, established under the Social Security Act of 1935, operates as a federal-state partnership in which federal law mandates the payroll tax while states administer their own programs. As part of this framework, states collect quarterly wage data from employers.

Op-Ed | June 18, 2026

Towards an allied civil society network in Europe

Commentary | June 18, 2026

Every Family Already Has a School Choice Tool. Most Aren’t Using It.

For most of its history, school choice meant exactly that: a choice of schools. One building or another. Usually, the assigned public school or the nearest private one. The argument was about where a child sat from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. That argument is over. A larger one has taken its place. The question now is not where a child learns, but how.

Issue Brief | June 17, 2026

Colombia’s Presidential Elections

Colombians voted on May 31, 2026, in the first round of the country's presidential election. No candidate secured the majority required to win outright, resulting in a runoff election scheduled for June 21, 2026. The next president will be inaugurated on August 7, 2026.

Commentary | June 17, 2026

Every State’s Untapped Advantage: ESSA Waivers and Ed-Flex

Secretary McMahon and her team have made considerable progress on one of President Trump’s key campaign promises - reorganizing and dismantling the Department of Education. Before President Trump took office, the conventional wisdom was that there was nothing that could be done to fulfill his campaign promise short of an act of Congress. But by using The Economy Act’s Interagency agreements, the Administration has managed to shift functions to departments better able to execute them.

Issue Brief | June 17, 2026

Taking Education Back from D.C.: Waiving Federal Control

Abolishing the Department of Education (ED) has been a campaign promise for Republican presidential candidates since Ronald Reagan ran in 1980, when ED was only a year old (Hess, 2023). When President Trump campaigned on this promise in 2024, experts doubted whether he could muster the political support to deliver on it (Lobosco, 2024).

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