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TPPF: Moderate Democrats Should Continue to Hold the Line Against Pelosi’s $5 Trillion Socialist Boondoggle

Ahead of today’s vote on the budget resolution, Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Chief Executive Officer Kevin Roberts released the following statement: “Owing to the historically reckless spending in Washington, D.C., working families across the country are being hit by the highest levels of inflation in decades. President Biden and Speaker Pelosi’s solution to the problem...

Press Release August 24, 2021

TPPF Releases Newest Episode of Forging Texas

Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation released the latest episode in its “Forging Texas” history series, focusing on the origins of and motivations for the Texas Revolution. The third and newest episode is titled “The Battle of San Jacinto.” To accompany the release, TPPF hosted a premiere event for Texans from across the state, while also inviting highly regarded Texas...

Press Release August 19, 2021

TPPF: U.S. Asylum System Overhaul Must Dissuade Meritless Claims

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, 2021

TPPF: Let Price Transparency Rule Stand for Insurers, PBMs

Today, 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, 2021

TPPF Intervenes in Election Integrity Lawsuit to Defend Texas Law

Today, 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, 2021

TPPF: Infrastructure Bill Hurts Today’s Families, Future Generations

Following 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, 2021

Michael Shires Hired as New Visiting Senior Fellow for Next Generation Texas

Today, 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, 2021

Right On Crime Expanding Into Mississippi

JACKSON, 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, 2021

TPPF: It’s Time to Do the People’s Business

Today, 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, 2021

TPPF-Led Border Security Coalition Triples Membership

Today, 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, 2021

TPPF Releases New Video, Border ‘Crisis: Cartels and Drug Trafficking’

Today, 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, 2021

Eric Hargan to Work With Right on Healthcare

Today, 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, 2021