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==News and Controversies==
===FreedomWorks Leads in Effort to Reopen Economy Amidst Coronavirus Pandemic===
FreedomWorks is behind the right-wing effort to reopen the American economy, while the coronavirus pandemic continues.
FreedomWorks is "is organizing some of the protests, holding virtual town halls, and “igniting an activist base of thousands of supporters across the nation to back up the effort.” The FreedomWorks website features a calendar of upcoming protests, and it is polling on the protests in swing districts, reportedly sharing the data with President Donald Trump’s economic task force," writes Alex Kotch for ExposedbyCMD.<ref>Alex Kotch, [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2020/04/22/groups-aligned-right-wing-megadonors-promoting-coronavirus-protests/ Groups Aligned with Right-Wing Megadonors Are Promoting Coronavirus Protests], ''ExposedbyCMD'', April 22, 2020.</ref>
FreedomWorks is also working with the [[Council for National Policy]], a coalition of far-right political advocacy and think tank figures that has worked largely behind the scenes since its founding in 1981 to promote protests and coordinate a coronavirus response strategy.<ref>Alex Kotch, [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2020/05/15/secretive-right-wing-nonprofit-plays-role-in-covid-19-organizing/ Secretive Right-Wing Nonprofit Plays Role in COVID-19 Organizing], ''ExposedbyCMD'', May 15, 2020.</ref>
===FreedomWorks Memo on the Debt Limit===
On August 25, 2017, ''POLITICO'' obtained an internal FreedomWorks memo which indicated that conservatives would not support federal debt limit increases without spending cuts attached. According to Nancy Cook of ''POLITICO'', "In an internal FreedomWorks memo obtained by POLITICO, the group’s vice president of legislative affairs, Jason Pye, warned Republicans that conservatives will not support a “clean” debt limit increase — that is, one without any spending cuts attached. That’s a policy move that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has pushed recently in an effort to dampen any potential Republican-on-Republican warring over government spending." <ref>Nancy Cook, [http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/24/freedomworks-memo-clean-debt-ceiling-increase-242001 FreedomWorks memo warns against 'clean' debt ceiling increase], ''POLITICO'', August 24, 2017.</ref>
