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Today, FreedomWorks Foundation and activists from 25 states submitted a formal comment to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding the request for public input to the Task Force as it considers updating the analysis of pharmaceutical mergers. In addition to the FTC, the Task Force is composed of the Canadian Competition Bureau, the European Commission Directorate General for Competition, the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority, the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ), and Offices of State Attorneys General.

On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your senators and representative and ask them to cosponsor the Unnecessary Agency Regulations Reduction Act, S. 2239, and H.R. 4132, introduced by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.). This bill would make cutting red tape a priority for Congress by streamlining the elimination of outdated, duplicative, and burdensome regulations.

On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and ask him or her to cosponsor the Increasing Health Coverage through HRAs Act, H.R. 4123, introduced by Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.). This bill would codify the Trump administration’s 2019 HRA rule and empower employees to take greater ownership of their health coverage.

As the job market recovers from the government-mandated shutdowns, President Biden is pushing Julie Su to be Deputy Secretary of Labor, second-in-command of the U.S. Department of Labor. Ms. Su, the current secretary of the failing State of California’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency and the former Labor Commissioner of California under Governor Jerry Brown, has a troubling record. Under her leadership, the agency has been rife with massive unemployment benefits, fraud, and mismanagement.

Last Thursday, the House of Representatives passed a bill to repeal the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) that gave the President the authority to go forward with the invasion of Iraq. This groundbreaking piece of legislation found bipartisan support as a vote of 268 to 161 passed the bill with 49 Republicans voting alongside Democrats to get it through.

Today, FreedomWorks led more than two dozen policy and advocacy organizations in asking members of Congress to reject any increase in the federal minimum wage.