Three Ideas to End the Shutdown
The federal shutdown is now entering its third week with no end in sight. Taxpayers and consumers are paying the price because each week of the shutdown siphons $7 billion…
The federal shutdown is now entering its third week with no end in sight. Taxpayers and consumers are paying the price because each week of the shutdown siphons $7 billion…
If you tax something, you get less of it. What is true for CO₂ emissions and alcohol consumption will, by the same logic, hold true for patents. And should Department…
A journey of 2,392 miles lies between Youngstown, Ohio, and Hollywood, California. President Donald Trump’s protectionism has completed a journey of a similar distance. Trump’s defense of tariffs once appealed…
America leads the world in medical innovation. That stark advantage exists not because the U.S. goes it alone, but because the U.S. recognizes and adopts the best ideas wherever they…
This op-ed was originally published in the Washington Examiner. In the formulation of Sir William Blackstone, the legal colossus of 18th-century England and 19th-century America, a judge investigating the meaning of a…
Over the past few months, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its subagencies have been quickly—and often destructively—changing the status-quo. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Jr.…
Five years ago, the coronavirus pandemic was wreaking havoc across the country. Around the time that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an Emergency Use Authorization for the first…
On October 1, 2025, the U.S. federal government shut down after the House-passed continuing resolution (CR) to extend current spending levels for seven weeks failed to pass in the Senate.…
Welcome back to “What You Should Be Reading,” a monthly blog series in which the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA), unlike the federal government, remains open and hard at work, commending…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Kara Zupkus (224)-456-0257WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congress has failed to reach an agreement that would pass a continuing resolution (CR) and fund the government, triggering a government shutdown.…