Robert Romano

Robert Romano is the Vice President of Public Policy at Americans for Limited Government Foundation and Americans for Limited Government and can be reached at robert@getliberty.org. He grew up in a suburban Long Island township. He studied and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Stony Brook University with the Class of 2008. In his free time, he composes music on piano, paints oil on canvas, and writes fiction.

Robert lives in Virginia, is married and is a father of two.

Robert Romano
12.19.2024

Trump tells Congress to push off year-end spending bill until after he is inaugurated and pass debt ceiling now, threatens to primary Republicans

By Robert Romano President-elect Donald Trump is weighing in on Congress’ latest omnibus spending bill , making continuing appropriations through Sept. 30, 2025, that came in at a whopping more than 1,500 pages all but declaring war on Congressional Republicans, who he threatened with party primaries in 2026 if they pass the […]

12.12.2024

Poll: 48 percent approve of President-elect Trump, only 41 disapprove, as Trump named Time’s Man of the Year

By Robert Romano President-elect Donald Trump appears to be getting off on the right foot with the American people in the latest Marist poll taken Dec. 5 , finding that 48 percent of registered voters approve of Trump’s handling of his job during the presidential transition, including 86 percent of Republicans, 38 percent of […]

12.11.2024

As inflation ticks upward again to 2.7 percent, Argentina reminds everyone that killing inflation can be very painful

By Robert Romano Consumer inflation in the U.S. ticked up another 0.3 percent in November at an annual rate of 2.7 percent, according to the latest data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For most Americans who have seen inflation outpace their incomes for four years now as […]

12.10.2024

Biden Hands Trump Weakening Economy As Unemployment Ticks Up Another 161,000 In November

By Robert Romano The unemployment rate in the U.S. ticked upwards to 4.2 percent in November, with 161,000 additional Americans saying they are unemployed in the latest household survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics . Unemployment overall is up from its Dec. 2022 low of about 5.7 million to its current level of 7.14 million, an increase of […]

12.03.2024

Trump’s tariff threat immediately moves Mexico and Canada to assist U.S. with securing borders

By Robert Romano President-elect Donald Trump has not even been sworn into office yet but he is already shaping the landscape to come by engaging directly with his soon-to-be counterparts in Mexico and Canada to immediately begin taking steps to secure U.S. borders with each of the […]

11.26.2024

Trump promises Jan. 20 executive order charging Mexico and Canada 25 percent and raise China tariff to 35 percent until border secured and fentanyl shipments stop

By Robert Romano President-elect Donald Trump is wasting no time with implementing his trade, border, immigration policies and war on drug cartels, promising to levy a 25 percent tariff on Mexico and Canada if they don’t secure their borders to prevent illegal aliens from crossing into the […]

11.25.2024

Poll: 59 percent approve of Trump transition, 57 percent support mass deportation, 52 percent support tariffs as Trump gets honeymoon

By Robert Romano 59 percent of Americans support what they are seeing so far from President-elect Donald Trump’s transition process so far, according to a CBS News poll taken Nov. 19 to Nov. 22 , with Americans feeling more optimistic about the economy and inflation, and majorities supporting Trump’s plans for mass deportation and tariffs on imports to incentive […]

11.21.2024

Trump’s Mandate: Why The Popular Vote Mattered In 2024

By Robert Romano It is now more than two weeks after the Nov. 5 election that swept President-elect Donald Trump back into office and saw Republicans retain the House majority and reclaim the Senate, completing the trifecta with one notable addition Republicans have not seen since 2004: […]

11.20.2024

Biden attempts to lock in Ukraine war ahead of Trump inauguration, approving missile strikes into Russia as Moscow sends nuclear warning

By Robert Romano President Joe Biden is attempting to lock in U.S. support for Ukraine in its ongoing war against Russia following Russia’s Feb. 2022 invasion of Ukraine and more recently, the U.S. reelection of former President Donald Trump, who is set to take office Jan. 20, […]

11.18.2024

As sticky inflation ticked up to 2.6 percent in October, nagging issue that sank Biden-Harris highlights need for less spending, more production

By Robert Romano Don’t look now, but inflation over the past twelve months ticked upward from 2.4 percent in September to 2.6 percent in October following the Federal Reserve’s decision to begin cutting interest rates on Sept. 18 to 4.75 percent to 5 percent. Did the Fed start cutting too quickly? Maybe, but the other side […]

11.15.2024

Senate Republicans rubber stamped almost every one of Joe Biden’s cabinet selections, deferring to the executive no matter how radical or how awful they turned out to be

By Robert Romano During President Joe Biden’s honeymoon in early 2021, Senate Republicans routinely deferred to the President’s selection for Cabinet secretaries, no matter how radical they were, how much they disagreed with the President’s policies and no matter how awful the selections turned out to be […]

11.14.2024

Incoming Senate Majority Leader Thune promises to help President-elect Trump achieve his policies. He can prove it by confirming Trump’s cabinet.

By Robert Romano Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) was elected Nov. 13 by the Senate Republican conference and is promising “to get to work implementing President Trump’s agenda on behalf of the American people” in a post on X.com . Now, Thune, whom President-elect Donald Trump congratulated on winning the […]

11.13.2024

Trump Appoints Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy To Run Department of Government Efficiency, Promises To Look At Every Inch Of The Budget As Debt Set To Hit $100 Trillion By 2037

By Robert Romano President-elect Donald Trump announced on Nov. 12 the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) , headed by Tesla, SpaceX and X.com owner Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, which will exist “outside of government” but will serve an important function monitoring and offering recommendations to the President and the White House Office of Management and Budget […]

11.11.2024

Republicans on verge of completing the sweep in 2024, keeping the House after securing the Senate and White House

By Robert Romano House Republicans appear to be on the verge of keeping the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2024 election after picking up four seats in the U.S. Senate to get to 53 and of course reclaiming the White House with President-elect Donald Trump’s historic […]

11.07.2024

Trump on track to surpass 76 million votes in first GOP popular vote win since 2004, biggest GOP Electoral College win since 1988. Is it realignment?

By Robert Romano President-elect Donald Trump appears on track to surpass 76 million votes in the 2024 election’s national popular vote after California, Arizona, Nevada and other states are done counting, assuming similar margins for Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in each of the states. Harris for her part could come in […]

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