FREEDOMWORKS 01/11/2018 SAY NO TO EARMARKS! WASTEFUL SPENDING MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED!

1. Republicans in Congress Shouldn't Try to Bring Back Earmarks

Via The Hill Republicans in Congress have failed to repeal ObamaCare. They’re contemplating an amnesty for illegal immigrants. Deficits this year could peak at a trillion dollars. But you know what will fix all of that? Bringing back earmarks! This, at least, seems to be the mindset of congressional Republicans, given the recent announcement that the House Rules Committee will soon hold a hearing on, you guessed it, repealing the 2011 earmark ban. READ MORE HERE

REGULATION ALERT FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION

Right now, Obama's so-called "Clean Power Plan" threatens to destroy thousands of American jobs and cause your energy bill to skyrocket. Thankfully President Trump and his conservative EPA Chief Scott Pruitt aren't going to let that happen. But radical leftists are striking back. And if you stay silent now, they will save these big government mandates. Don’t let that happen. Write a comment to President Trump's EPA right now. Tell them to support the president's efforts to repeal Obama’s Clean Power Plan today.

2. Deregulatory Successes Point to Direction for Trump Administration

Via Reason Even as CNN talking heads remain in shock that Donald Trump is actually president, and the man himself apparently sees social media as a means to go full drunk-uncle on an international scale, millions of Americans continue to support the current resident of the White House. FiveThirtyEight has Trump's approval ratings at 38.8 percent as I write, and an insight into why many Americans continue to put their faith in this president landed last week in the form of a Washington Post article on the relief felt by Iowa farmers over the Trump administration's push to roll back much-resented regulatory red tape. "Obama set aside millions of acres of undeveloped land as national monuments—more than any other president—preventing huge areas from being mined, logged or farmed. Obama also implemented more regulations with a significant economic impact than any president in three decades, according to the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center. Those actions were cheered by many Americans but widely viewed in rural areas as killing jobs." READ MORE HERE

3. Ajit Pai's Personal Hell, Our National Media's Failure

Via Investor's Business Daily Something disturbing has been taking place in recent months which, if unchecked, poses a real danger to our democracy, yet has barely been noted by the mainstream media: The continuing, organized political harassment of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai. Pai has been subject to a nonstop campaign of attacks, vilification and outright threats unseen in this country in decades. And why? Because he overturned a ruling by President Obama's FCC imposed on the nation regarding "net neutrality." Net neutrality allows the government to regulate internet carriers like it did the telephone industry and to force them to treat all content providers and their customers the same. READ MORE HERE

4. WATCH NOW: FreedomWorks Discusses the House's Upcoming Vote on Warrantless Government Surveillance

FreedomWorks Policy Analyst Sarah Anderson sits down with Vice President of Legislative Affairs Jason Pye to discuss the huge constitutional dangers of the House's upcoming vote on the FISA Amendment Reauthorization Act. Later, they talk about the USA RIGHTS Act, and how it will allow the intelligence community to continue to fight terrorism while also protecting the rights and liberties of American citizens. WATCH HERE

5. EPA Set to Reduce Staff 50% in Trump's First Term

Via Washington Examiner The Environmental Protection Agency, seen by President Trump as a bloated bureaucratic whale, is on schedule to fulfill his promise to reduce its staff nearly in half by the end of his first term mostly through retirements, not cuts, according to officials. The EPA Tuesday provided to Secrets its first year staff results which show that the agency is below levels not seen since former President Reagan’s administration. And if just those slated to retire by early 2021 leave, Administrator Scott Pruitt and his team will have reduced a staff of nearly 15,000, to below 8,000, or a reduction of 47 percent. READ MORE HERE