While there are areas where the government should step in to assist American workers and businesses, it must seek to avoid intrusion into the lives of ordinary Americans. The New York Young Republican Club supports getting back to the Founders’ Constitutional vision of limited and self-governance and rejecting the progressive vision of “government without restraints” consolidated within the executive branch by Woodrow Wilson and others. This means cutting the administrative state and reducing the regulatory burden on new and small businesses in America.

In the post-Cold War era, instead of a promised peace dividend, American families have been squeezed by outsourcing, rising costs in healthcare, childcare, and higher education. Now, inflation is outpacing wage growth. Marriage and birth rates are at historic lows, and we must do everything we can to repair and strengthen American families by organizing our economy around the interests and everyday realities of households.

The New York Young Republican Club believes we must make it easier to raise a family in this country, and we back policies that encourage intact and strong American families. This is especially true in K-12 education policy, where politicians left our children behind during the pandemic. More than ever before, children suffer the indoctrination of leftist successor ideology attempting to subvert America’s traditions, philosophy, culture, and history. We support parental empowerment and involvement and allocation of funding that follows the student, not the system.

The failures of military action in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya have demonstrated that the United States should not attempt to be the world’s policeman. The New York Young Republican Club stresses a restrained, America First foreign policy that prioritizes the national interest over all other considerations.

American sovereignty must be prioritized when considering international agreements. In particular, the US must avoid ceding any power to the United Nations. The Paris Climate Agreement serves as a prime example of globalist legislation that does not serve our country’s best interests.

We do not subscribe to the selective and convenient usage of our inalienable rights so common in our society today. We reject the notion that right should be limited to make some people “feel” better, and we support all ten amendments that comprise our Bill of Rights, with particular emphasis on the first two. The First Amendment freedoms of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition for redress are essential to providing our self-governed vision for ordered liberty, while the Second Amendment is imperative to maintaining our free society. We have seen during the years of the COVID pandemic what happens to countries without the guaranteed right of self-defense and fair access to arms.

The New York Young Republican Club supports expanded access to concealed and open carry and strongly opposes the introduction of red flag laws or any new regulations on “assault weapons.”

The Rule of Law and not the arbitrary waging of power by tyrants, demagogues, or street mobs is a backbone not just to our country but to any country conceived in and working toward Liberty. We are dismayed and discouraged by the continual erosion of the rule of law in our country, state, and city and by the selective and double standards put on crime and criminals by our cultural and media institutions.

The New York Young Republican Club believes in the right to protest, but also believes that said right ends the moment someone injures person or property. We are in fundamental disagreement with the defund the police movement and recognize that it has endangered our major cities tremendously, causing crime to increase for consecutive years. We call for the restoration of public safety, for victims to be elevated again over criminals, for severe consequences for criminals and criminal activity, and for close coordination between local communities, law enforcement, and public officials to restore order and ensure American citizens’ security of person and property.

Securing and ensuring the integrity of our elections cannot be emphasized enough. If the citizens of the United States of America do not have confidence in their elections, then they do not have confidence in governmental actions that follow from those elections. Failures of election integrity pose a key risk because they erode the integrity of one’s citizenship. Just as a country needs borders, a democratic and constitutional republic needs a meaningful citizenship and voting to have any real legitimacy.

The New York Young Republican Club calls for states to continue their constitutionally given role in legislating and implementing their elections; United States federal elections are in-fact a series of state elections, and the integrity of legal votes and the election process by the letter of the law is instrumental in maintaining the American Republic. The federal government must allow states to act in a manner free from onerous regulation and which addresses local concerns of election integrity.