Rick Manning

Rick Manning is the President Americans for Limited Government and can be reached at rmanning@getliberty.org. A long time public affairs professional, Rick served as the Public Affairs Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Labor during the George W. Bush Administration, where he was twice recognized by the Secretary for Exceptional Achievement.

Born and raised in southern California, Rick graduated from the University of Southern California working his way through school running political campaigns.

Shortly thereafter, he became a state lobbyist for the National Rifle Association for nine years responsible for the southeastern United States, Maryland and New Jersey. At NRA, Rick worked closely with local groups to pass the groundbreaking concealed carry law in Florida which has subsequently served as a national model.

A veteran of dozens of corporate communications and grassroots campaigns, Manning has emerged as a leading voice in the conservative community with columns appearing in The Hill, Investor’s Business Daily, FoxNews.com and other major publications across the nation.

A resident of Maryland where he is a former town council member locally, Rick is active in his local church and is married to his college sweetheart.


Rick Manning
12.16.2024

Republicans Need to Go Big on Tax, Spending and Regulatory Cuts

By Rick Manning Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and soon to be Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R.-S.D.) need to go huge in first  budget reconciliation act , because this might be the only bite of the apple they get. The political reality in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives is that […]

12.10.2024

GOP Senate Needs To Show Up To Work And Block Biden NLRB Chair Pick

By Rick Manning President Joe Biden is engaged in an end of presidency power play to keep Democrat control over the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) by pushing a renewal of current chair Lauren McFerran to another term. Senate Republicans should do everything in their power to […]

12.05.2024

DOGE Needs to Look at Biden Justice Department abuse of power in Rocket Mortgage case

By Rick Manning This afternoon, Speaker Mike Johnson and GOP leaders met with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to discuss their efforts to identify fraud, waste and abuse within the federal government.  Americans for Limited Government has been at the forefront of this fight to reduce the […]

11.27.2024

The FTC and DOJ Are Threatening American Leadership

By Rick Manning America’s unprecedented economic strength and freedom centers on the importance of limited government. However, values slowly crumble, they don’t often die with a bang. Under President Biden, Lina Khan’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Jonathan Kanter’s Anti-Trust Division at the Department of Justice (DOJ) […]

11.19.2024

Why Matt Gaetz Makes Sense As Attorney General

By Rick Manning You could almost hear the audible gasp by establishment Washington, D.C. when they learned that Florida Republican  Rep. Matt Gaetz  was going to be appointed attorney general by President Donald Trump. Truthfully my first reaction was not positive either. But sometimes first reactions are wrong. Three years […]

11.18.2024

Make America Great Again Is More Than A Slogan—It Is Necessary

By Rick Manning For the first time since the reign of Franklin D. Roosevelt which put the full-throated administrative state in place, America has aligned the executive, legislative and judicial branches to restore power to the people and rip it out of the hands of their taxpayer […]

11.12.2024

House, Senate Leadership Fights Dominate The Week After GOP Secures Trifecta

By Rick Manning This week the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are scheduled to choose their leadership after Republicans won majorities in the Senate and House in the 2024 elections and President-elect Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris for the White House, securing the trifecta […]

11.06.2024

Americans Stood Up for America

By Rick Manning Joe Biden was fond of calling this election “a battle for the soul of America” and he was right. There was a stark contrast between Donald Trump and his America First agenda and the Kamala Harris agenda of increasing dependency through entitlements, open borders, […]

11.05.2024

Three things you can do to save the country

  By Rick Manning 1:         Vote.  If you haven’t already, please go to the polls and vote for Donald Trump for President.  2:         Encourage others to vote:  Simply copy this URL This year, vote. And share it with your friends on Facebook, TruthSocial, X and you might even go so […]

11.04.2024

After Donald Trump Interview On Joe Rogan, Streaming Campaign Beats 60 Minutes

By Rick Manning “The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast The slowest now will later be fast As the present now will later be past The order is rapidly fadin’ And the first one now will later be last ‘Cause the times, they are […]

10.29.2024

The Constitutional choice before us

By Rick Manning America stands at a crossroads, a time when our nation will choose whether to affirm the very concept that individual rights are from God with government being the guarantor of those rights or we will pursue the broken down pathway of government determining what […]

10.22.2024

Trump is right on not taxing Social Security benefits

By Rick Manning Everyone who gets a paycheck knows about social security taxes.  In fact, many parents have experienced watching their teen’s face turn from excitement to confusion and sometimes anger when he/she gets the first paycheck, as they wonder who this FICA fellow is who is […]

10.21.2024

Why This Election’s Battle For The Supreme Court Matters More Than Anything Else

By Rick Manning The Supreme Court is on the ballot right now. The left has made their goals abundantly clear: end the current Court majority at all costs.  The Biden administration only failed to pack the Court due to the opposition of two Senate Democrats, Joe Manchin […]

10.15.2024

Kamala Harris’ Medicare Drug Costs 3-Card Monte

By Rick Manning Kamala Harris still clings to the disastrous idea of imposing price controls as a response to inflation at the grocery store, blaming farmers and grocers for the Biden-Harris administration’s failed farm and inflation policies.  As Vice President, after Harris cast the deciding, tie-breaking vote […]

09.11.2024

Federal Reserve Proposed Action Increases Consumer Banking Costs

By Rick Manning Debit cards are ubiquitous in America. Virtually everyone with a bank account has them as a convenience to allow relatively easy access to one’s own money. Obviously, these cards cost the issuer money to service each transaction with the Federal Reserve Board designated under […]

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