Save The Nation - Feb 2021

Today, FreedomWorks Foundation submitted a formal comment opposing a proposed rule by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) regarding cryptocurrency. The proposed rule would require banks and other organizations to identify, and keep records of, all individuals who use either hosted or unhosted cryptocurrency wallets. As we pointed out in our comment excerpted below, although FinCEN has corrected their procedural errors from the first version of this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), the contents of this notice present an existential threat to cryptocurrencies as a whole. Not only would this proposal amount to centralizing a decentralized currency, but it would create massive security and surveillance risks that would be otherwise impossible.

On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your senators and ask them to cosponsor the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, S. 68, if they haven’t already done so. Introduced by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the REINS Act would reaffirm the legislative branch’s Article I authority by requiring that economically significant rules be approved through a joint resolution of Congress before they can take effect.

On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and ask him or her to cosponsor the Pandemic Healthcare Access Act, H.R. 295. Introduced by Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) along with 18 original cosponsors, the Pandemic Healthcare Access Act would allow Americans to enroll in a health savings account (HSA) without a high-deductible health plan. This is a much-needed step toward healthcare freedom that could benefit millions of Americans, regardless of the health insurance plan that they have.

On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and ask him or her to cosponsor legislation to terminate the Department of Education, H.R. 899. Introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), this bill would do one simple thing -- return decision-making on public education back to where it belongs: states and local communities.