Massive abuse of the U.S. asylum system, coupled with increasingly lax enforcement of federal immigration laws in the interior of the country, is driving the current border crisis and both problems need to be fixed to turn the situation around, according to border security and immigration experts at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. “Expediting the...
Press Release August 19, 2021Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation responded to the filing of a lawsuit by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce challenging price transparency rules for insurers. The rules are the second part of a two-part Trump administration push to make health care prices more transparent to the American people....
Press Release August 13, 2021Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation asked to intervene in an election integrity lawsuit, representing the election administrators of Medina and Real counties responsible for voter registration. TPPF has filed to defend Senate Bill 1111, a commonsense requirement that voters use their home address to indicate the appropriate location in which they can vote, as...
Press Release August 11, 2021Following the U.S. Senate’s vote on the infrastructure package, the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Chief Executive Officer Kevin Roberts released the following statement: “The U.S. Senate passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package that adds at least a quarter of a trillion dollars to the already bloated national debt and spends less than 10% on actual infrastructure—roads...
Press Release August 10, 2021Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation announced that Michael Shires, Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Pepperdine School of Public Policy, is the new Visiting Senior Fellow for the Foundation’s Next Generation Texas initiative. Shires, also the Associate Dean for Strategy and Special Projects at Pepperdine, is a leading expert on California’s Proposition 13...
Press Release August 9, 2021JACKSON, Miss.— Brett Tolman, Executive Director of the conservative criminal justice reform organization Right on Crime, announces the expansion of its campaign to have a full-time presence in Mississippi, with Scott Peyton as the State Director. “While we know there are issues that need immediate attention in Mississippi, such as prison overcrowding, there are tremendous...
Press Release August 9, 2021Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation applauded Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to call a second special session, a necessary step for conducting the business of the people of Texas. After an incomplete 87th Legislative Session, and a Special Session in which Democratic lawmakers fled the state and left the House without a quorum, elected...
Press Release August 6, 2021Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation is pleased to announce that in less than 2 years since its founding, the TPPF-led Border Security Coalition has tripled in size, growing into a diverse roster of state and national civic leaders, border security experts and anti-human trafficking activists . In recent months, the Coalition has added to...
Press Release August 3, 2021Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation released a new video titled “Border Crisis: Cartels and Drug Trafficking,” highlighting the unprecedented increase in drug trafficking at the U.S.-Mexico border. This video is the latest effort by the TPPF-led Border Security Coalition to shine a spotlight on the border crisis, which through a combination of failed federal policy and a surge of new migrants has grown...
Press Release August 3, 2021Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation announced that former Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Eric Hargan will be the Distinguished Senior Fellow for Right on Healthcare, the foundation’s initiative concerning health care policy. Hargan, a former private health care attorney, was a key player in Operation Warp Speed, producing a Covid-19 vaccine in...
Press Release August 2, 2021WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Life:Powered project and the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) submitted joint comments to the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality opposing a proposed rule to thwart a major reform action taken by the Trump Administration. “Lengthy permitting processes have long been a serious drag on the nation’s economy. Multi-year approval processes driven by bloated, complex, and burdensome regulations...
Press Release July 30, 2021Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation released new research focusing on state revenue trends in higher education, revealing an unprecedented level of growth over the last 40 years. From 1980-2020, colleges and universities have benefited from a growth in state investment into higher education, culminating into a total educational revenue of over $15,000 per student per year. Despite the myth that the...
Press Release July 28, 2021