State Treasurers and Financial Officers:
Fighting for Taxpayers

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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 states' financial stability.

We work with state and municipal financial officers—including state and big city treasurers, comptrollers, controllers, and auditors from across the country—to oppose the economic policies and spending cuts put forth by the Trump administration that would raise costs on working families and gut key services the American people rely on.

Opposing Trump’s Trade War and Tax Increases

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

That’s why State Treasurers, Auditors, Comptrollers, and more are calling on President Donald Trump to permanently end the ongoing tariff crisis and looming trade war with Mexico, Canada, and critical trade partners. As the end of the 30-day pause on tariffs on Canada and Mexico quickly approaches, and with Trump ramping up threats of new tariffs, State Treasurers are highlighting the harms to their states, budgets, and to the livelihoods and everyday routines of their constituents if the Trump administration does not permanently end the threat of a foolish trade war with one of our most critical trade partners.

Keeping Costs Down for Americans By Protecting Vital Programs

State Treasurers know federal cuts would devastate states’ fiscal stability and hurt American families, workers, and businesses.

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

The Trump administration has withheld federal funding for key programs, including Medicaid and HeadStart. These pauses impacted $3 trillion in federal assistance programs and undermine the ability of states to deliver essential services. Now, House and Senate Republicans are moving forward with a budget that is a clear giveaway to the wealthy and completely out of step with President Trump’s claims that his party would prioritize lowering costs for working families if elected. State Treasurers and Auditors from across the country are sounding the alarm that the GOP’s 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.

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.

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