Posts Tagged ‘economy’
Tea Party Patriots Action Responds to First Quarter GDP Report
Atlanta, GA – Tea Party Patriots Action Honorary Chairman Jenny Beth Martin responds to today’s release of the Q1 GDP report which showed an expectations-shattering number of 3.2 percent. “This kind of growth is only possible when you have a pro-growth President whose actions back up his words and campaign promises. Once again, we are…
Read MoreWill Republicans Fight For Their Voters? Or Will They Cave?
By Jenny Beth Martin There is a conservative majority that voted to put Republicans in power. When the act of voting is divorced from the conduct of governing, voters begin to ask, what is the point of voting? These conservative voters gave Republicans control of a unified government – at least in name…but the policies…
Read MoreTea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 8/28/17
CALENDAR: The House and Senate have both left for their August recess, and will not return until Tuesday, September 5. DEBT CEILING: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has advised Congress that he will reach the limit of his ability to use what he calls “extraordinary measures” – what regular people call “smoke and mirrors” – to…
Read MoreTea Party Patriots Weekly Report From Washington for 8/7/17
CALENDAR: The House and Senate have both left for their August recess, and will not return until Tuesday, September 5. LAST WEEK ON THE SENATE FLOOR: The Senate returned on Monday and voted to invoke cloture on the nomination of Kevin Newsom of Alabama to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the 11th Circuit. The…
Read MoreFreedom Caucus chairman wants the corporate tax rate to drop down to teens
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) wants Congress to pass legislation that would drop the corporate tax rate from the current 35 percent down to the teens. The Hill has the scoop: “I don’t want to nibble around the edges,” Meadows said Wednesday at an event hosted by Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a group…
Read MoreTea Party Patriots Thank President Trump for Keeping His Promise to Withdraw from Paris Accord
Atlanta, GA – Tea Party Patriots President and co-founder Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement today, reacting to President Trump’s announcement the United States is withdrawing from the Paris Accord. “Tea Party Patriots thanks President Donald Trump for continuing to keep the promises he made during the campaign by announcing the United States will…
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