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The internet is one of the most exemplary free market and innovation success stories of our life time. Over the last few decades, it has helped grow the economy, expanded opportunities for entrepreneurs, and enhanced consumer choice for all Americans by allowing unprecedented access to online goods and services. Unfortunately, internet freedom is under attack by politicians willing to distort markets and tilt the playing field toward their favored businesses...

On Thursday, the House will vote on the Fiscal Year 2018 (FY18) Budget offered by the Republican Study Committee (RSC) as an amendment to the committee-approved FY18 budget resolution. The RSC's Budget: Securing America's Future Economy, introduced by RSC Budget and Spending Task Force Chairman Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), would balance in 2023, reduce non-defense discretionary spending, reestablish national defense spending to support the military, break the "firewall" between defense and...

Washington—According to multiple reports, congressional Republicans are reconsidering their plan to eliminate the roughly $1.3 to $1.8 trillion state and local tax deductions and nearly double the standard deduction as part of a sweeping tax reform unveiled last week. Aggressive lobbying from the National Association of Realtors and other special interest groups, along with pushback from Republican lawmakers from high-tax states, is behind the proposed change. Heritage Action released the...

Washington—On Wednesday, the Trump administration submitted a $29 billion disaster supplemental request to Congress. The request included $12.77 billion for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Disaster Relief Fund (DRF), $576.5 million for federal wildfire suppression, and a $16 billion writedown of the National Flood Insurance Program's (NFIP) nearly $30 billion debt. In the official request, OMB Director Mick Mulvaney writes that "the NFIP required immediate financial relief to fulfill...

Washington—Today, the House of Representatives finally approved its fiscal year 2018 budget resolution and the Senate Budget Committee approved its version of the measure, setting up Senate floor consideration the week of October 16th. Once the House and Senate adopt a joint budget resolution with the appropriate reconciliation instructions, lawmakers will be able to move forward on a sweeping overhaul of America's tax code. Heritage Action released the following statement...

S.1922 mirrors legislation (H.R. 36), introduced by Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), which passed the House 237-189. The House has passed similar pain-capable unborn protection legislation several times since the beginning of the 113th Congress, each of which were subsequently blocked by Senate Democrats. This Congress has the opportunity to advance pro-life legislation and now has a willing ally in the White House. In a statement of administration policy, the Trump...

The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (S. 1922), introduced by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), would protect unborn children by preventing abortions 20 weeks after conception, at which time scientific evidence suggests the child can feel pain.

"NO" on $16 Billion Bailout of National Flood Insurance Program

Washington—Following a "thorough legal review," the Trump administration announced last night that it "believe[s] that the last Administration overstepped the legal boundaries" by distributing Cost Sharing Reduction (CSR) payments to insurance companies without a congressional appropriation. As a result, the Trump administration "will discontinue these payments immediately." Heritage Action released the following statement from Chief Executive Officer Michael A. Needham: "The Trump administration deserves tremendous credit for understanding those payments...

Washington—This afternoon, the Senate began consideration of the Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Resolution (H. Con. Res. 71). Heritage Action views this particular budget, which contains reconciliation instructions for a $1.5 trillion revenue reduction, as a critical step forward in the decades-long effort to reform our nation's stagnant and convoluted tax code. Multiple key votes are possible throughout that process, and because the rules governing the Senate's budget consideration are complex...