Jason Pye

May 7, 2024 | freedomworks.org | Eric Harrison |Phil Bell |Jason Pye

On behalf of our activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and urge him or her to vote YES on the Congressional Review Act (CRA) disapproval resolution to overturn the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) 121, H.J.Res. 109. Introduced by Reps. Mike Flood (R-NE) and Wiley Nickel (D-NC), this bipartisan CRA would stop SEC Chairman Gary Gensler’s latest attack on cryptocurrencies and the foundation of decentralized finance (DeFi).

Feb 29, 2024 | freedomworks.org | Jason Pye |Jack Scheader

Tony Gonzales (R-TX-23) 100% / 75.1% Maxine Waters (D-CA-43) 0% / 13% Chip Roy (R-TX-21) 0% / 81.8% Brad Sherman (D-CA-32) 100% / 14.4% Wesley Hunt (R-TX-38) 100% / 95.5% Susan Wild (D-PA-7) 100% / 8% Byron Donalds (R-FL-19) 100% / 96.3% Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14) 0% / 16.1% James Comer (R-KY-1) 100% / 80.9% Joaquin Castro (D-TX-20) 100% / 14%

Feb 23, 2024 | freedomworks.org | Jason Pye |Adam Brandon |William Paul |Kilian Laverty

Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage (also known as Medicare Part C) differ in a few important ways, but both could learn a thing or two from the lowly Cavendish banana and its cousin the Gros “Big Mike” Michel banana. Created as part of the Medicare Modernization and Prescription Drug Act of 2002, Medicare Advantage was a way to inject choice through private market forces into Medicare, which, to that point, had operated as an outright government-run, single-payer program.

Feb 22, 2024 | freedomworks.org | Jason Pye |Adam Brandon |Drew Stephens

Last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2024 to 2034. As the title suggests, the report offers a glance at the federal budget and key economic indicators in FY 2024 and the ten-year budget window, FY 2025 through FY 2034. The report doesn’t really offer much of a change in the budgetary outlook. The key takeaways are:The budget deficit is projected to exceed $1.5 trillion in FY 2024, or 5.3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).

Feb 7, 2024 | freedomworks.org | Phil Bell |Jason Pye |Jack Scheader

Railroads were America’s first large-scale heavy industry. As happened with most industries, the government started by being helpful in the formation of railroads before quickly becoming antagonistic, and finally settling into a routine of intrusive regulations, occasional subsidies, and periodic political grandstanding. Marc Scribner of Reason described the latter when he said of the Railway Safety Act of 2023 (S.