Wesley Coopersmith is the director of federal affairs for States Trust, the Foundation’s federal affairs initiative. Before joining the Foundation, he served as the legislative director for a U.S. senator.
Prior to his position in the U.S. Senate, Coopersmith served as the deputy director of government relations at Heritage Action for America where he managed the staff’s day-to-day interactions with U.S. senators and their staff.
Back in March 2010, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said out loud what most Democrats would only say in their own heads. In referencing a massive takeover of America’s health care system, also known as Obamacare, Speaker Pelosi suggested the House pass the bill so we could all find out what was in it. History certainly...
Let’s call it the Salton Principle: Renaming a product may make marketing easier, but it doesn’t fundamentally change the product. Who would buy a Salton Grill? We didn’t—and neither did you. But when it was rebranded as the George Foreman Lean Mean Fat-Reducing Grilling Machine, the little countertop grill showed up in homes (and dorm...
The current two-year suspension of the federal government’s debt limit is set to expire on July 31, 2021. U.S. Treasury officials will likely be able to push this deadline back to Sept. 30, when fiscal year 2021 funding runs out, using accounting gimmicks or “extraordinary measures.” Without suspending or raising the debt limit by then,...
As the crisis at the southern border rages on, House Democrats this week proposed a new appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that would severely cut funding to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), while rescinding over $2 billion in border wall funding from last year. Ironically,...