Conservatives Oppose Repealing the Hyde Amendment
July 20, 2021Washington, DCSignatures updated: 8/3/21 Conservatives believe that the sanctity of human life, including the value of every child, should be honored and protected by our laws. We are deeply opposed to efforts to strip the Hyde amendment and other long-standing pro-life provisions from federal law. For nearly fifty years, the Hyde amendment has […]
Conservatives Applaud President Trump’s Proposed Spending Cuts
February 27, 2020 Washington, DC Conservatives commend President Trump for including trillions of dollars in taxpayer savings and reforms in his budget. President Trump has offered a budgetary framework that would continue the economic success of his first term that is decreasing government dependence throughout America and resulting in record-low unemployment levels. Although the 2020 […]
Conservatives Do Not Support Another Short-Term, Budget-Busting Spending Bill
November 18, 2019 Washington, DC Conservatives reject attempts by Congress to pass yet another bloated, pork-filled spending bill. Congress is currently considering a short-term Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government until December 20. This gives Democrats and big-spending Republicans leverage to use the threat of a government shutdown over the holiday as a means […]
Conservatives Oppose Trillion Dollar Spending Boondoggle
July 24, 2019 Washington, D.C. Signatures updated 7/25/19 After months of urging congressional and administration negotiators to prioritize reductions in spending, conservatives now oppose the recently announced irresponsible bipartisan budget deal. The agreement eviscerates the remaining budget caps by more than $320 billion over the next two years. It does so without any spending offsets—despite […]
Don’t Let the Swamp Win: President Trump & Congress Must Restrain Spending in Upcoming Budget Deal
June 3, 2019 Washington, DC Signatures updated: 6/11/19 As Congress and the White House continue to negotiate a deal on spending caps, conservatives urge all parties involved to restrain spending. Our current debt is at $22 trillion—the highest it has ever been. President Trump has repeatedly said he wants to cut spending and has proposed […]
Congress Should Enact DHS and DOD Funding Bills Before the Election
August 28, 2018 Washington, DC Signatures updated: 8/29/18 For too long, Republican spending bills have missed key opportunities to implement President Trump’s agenda on policy, but also on spending. Many of the House and Senate spending bills have spent at levels well above what the president requested, and deliberately funded priorities that the president sought […]
Senators – Fund the Troops First
June 11, 2018 Washington, DC Signatures updated: 6/12/18 Conservatives want the Senate to work fulltime and overtime starting now until their work is done. Working Americans do this, or they don’t get paid. Eliminating paid leave in August is nice but insufficient. As we have outlined in previous memos, conservatives now call on the Senate’s […]
Conservatives Agree with President Trump: “Never Again” Should Congress Pass an Omnibus Boondoggle, and “Never Again” Should He Sign One
April 9, 2018 Washington, D.C. Congress recently passed, and the President signed, a $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill that gives Democrats everything they want while violating key conservative principles on both policy and process. By relinquishing control of the process to Democrats, the Republican leadership allowed many provisions in the bill to stand out as […]
No Debt Limit Increase Without Fiscal Reforms
September 6, 2017 Washington, DC Congress faces numerous deadlines when they return to session in September. In addition to funding the government, providing relief for victims of Hurricane Harvey, and reauthorizing several major programs, they face a debt limit expiration. Conservatives oppose any debt ceiling increase unless it includes major fiscal reforms that immediately put […]
