Accuracy in Media

The Trump administration and the Republican-controlled Senate have cut back regulations and paperwork in government, per the American Action Forum (AAF): …the Senate was able to disapprove four regulations that resulted in $501 million in regulatory cost savings. According to AAF calculations, as of last week, the per capita regulatory burdens for 2017 now stands […]

The American Action Forum (AAF) was skeptical about the Congressional Budget Office’s scoring of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the Obamacare replacement plan put forward by the Republicans in the House of Representatives: …[T]he Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its score of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), also known as Obamacare repeal and replace. CBO’s […]

From the American Action Forum: The White House this week announced President Trump’s intention to raise the defense budget by $54 billion, which on its surface sounds like a step toward fulfilling his campaign promise to rebuild the American military. In reality, however, the additional funding is an insufficient increase to address the military’s readiness […]

The American Action Forum (AAF), in an e-mail newsletter, broke down the numbers about repealing and replacing Obamacare: Republicans are reported to have their collective knickers in a communal twist as they seek to put together Obamacare repeal/replace legislation. As a roadmap to the issue, it might be useful to review some of the key numbers relevant […]

From an American Action Forum daily e-mail: AAF analysis shows that despite former regulatory czar Cass Sunstein urging agencies in 2012 to cut between 50,000 to 2 million hours of paperwork, the paperwork burden has only increased. In 2012 the nation’s average paperwork burden was 10.3 billion hours and today it stands at more than 11.5 […]

None of the major liberal media networks wrote an article on their online websites and how the Obama administration pushed $5 billion worth of regulations now that the Trump administration will take office soon. Seriously, liberal media?

From the Free Beacon: Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s plan to deport all undocumented immigrants would cost between $400 billion and $600 billion and take at least 20 years to implement, according to a report from the American Action Forum. The report estimates that there are currently 11.3 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United […]