State Financial Leaders:
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Americans for Responsible Growth is defending states' economies, small businesses, and taxpayers.

Americans for Responsible Growth is a national advocacy group focused on ensuring long-term sustainable economic growth, lowering costs for consumers, and protecting programs that help families, workers, and businesses alike.

Working with elected leaders at the state, county, and municipal level, we partner with treasurers, auditors, controllers, and others to oppose the economic policies and spending cuts put forth by Republican lawmakers and the Trump administration—working to keep Republicans from raising costs on working families, gutting key services the American people rely on, and threatening states’ long-term economic stability.

Opposing Trump’s Trade War and Tax Increases

State financial leaders know Trump’s tariffs are taxes on American businesses, workers, and consumers—plain and simple.

Alongside Americans for Responsible Growth, state treasurers, auditors, and other financial officers have called on President Donald Trump to permanently end his ongoing trade wars. Trump’s tariffs and broader economic agenda have created a volatile financial landscape defined by erratic federal policy, rising global skepticism about American stability, and the politicization of institutions that have long served as anchors of economic confidence.

That’s why many state financial leaders, some who are the fiscal stewards of their states, have called for congressional action to intervene to protect Americans from Trump’s disastrous economic policies and address an economic crisis threatening state economies nationwide.

Fortune: State officials hammer Trump over 529 plans — He is ‘stoking fear in the hearts of college students and high schoolers across the country’

Keeping Costs Down for Americans By Protecting Vital Programs

State financial leaders warn that the Republicans' federal budget will leave Americans struggling to meet basic needs while threatening states’ long-term economic security.

Republicans in Washington D.C. are cutting key funding our states need to provide for our families

With Americans already facing rising grocery costs and economic chaos because of the Trump administration’s deeply unpopular agenda, state financial leaders from across the country are sounding the alarm that the Republicans' proposals would gut Medicaid and other critical programs while raising families’ health care, food, and college costs, increasing the nation’s economic risks, and creating hardships for tens of millions of people.

That’s why treasurers, auditors, and controllers have been outspoken in their opposition to Republican lawmakers’ efforts cut $1 trillion from essential programs like Medicaid, free and reduced-cost school lunches and SNAP will strip away vital support that helps families afford the most basic necessities like food and health care.

Fortune: Democratic state treasurers rip Republicans over budget bill — ‘taxing Barbies and G.I. Joes if you can even find them on store shelves’

The New York Times: Chasing Tax Cuts, Trump and Republicans Want to Make States Pay

Protecting Retirement Accounts

State Treasurers working to oppose efforts to politicize investment management.

A coalition of 17 state financial officers—including state and big city treasurers, comptrollers, controllers, and auditors—sent a letter to urge the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Acting Chairman Mark Uyeda and the Department of Labor (DOL) Acting Secretary Vince Micone to oppose a recent request by Republican state finance officials that the SEC and DOL ban investment managers and retirement plans from factoring broad categories of risks into decision-making processes.

ESG Dive: Dems ask SEC, DOL to not issue anti-ESG rules: Exclusive

“A coalition of 17 blue state finance officials sent a letter to the agencies to counter prior assertions made by their Republican colleagues.”