![]() Movement goals include limiting the size of the federal government, reducing government spending, lowering the national debt and opposing tax increases. The movement advocates a national economy operating without government oversight. The Tea Party movement focuses on a significant reduction in the size and scope of the government. īy 2016, Politico noted that the Tea Party movement was essentially completely dead however, the article noted that the movement seemed to die in part because some of its ideas had been absorbed by the mainstream Republican Party, although CNBC reported in 2019 that the conservative wing of the Republican Party "has basically shed the tea party moniker." Part of the Taxation in It is unclear exactly how much money is donated to AFP by David Koch and his brother Charles Koch. A major force behind it was Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a conservative political advocacy group founded by businessman and political activist David Koch. Although the Tea Party is not a political party in the classic sense of the word, research published in 2016 suggests that members of the Tea Party Caucus voted like a significantly more right-wing third party in Congress. Supporters of the movement subsequently had a major impact on the internal politics of the Republican Party. On February 20, 2009, The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition also helped launch the Tea Party movement via a conference call attended by around 50 conservative activists. ![]() The Tea Party movement was popularly launched following a February 19, 2009, call by CNBC reporter Rick Santelli on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for a "tea party". According to the American Enterprise Institute, various polls in 2013 estimated that slightly over 10% of Americans identified as part of the movement. It has sponsored multiple protests and supported various political candidates since 2009. It was composed of a mixture of libertarian, right-wing populist, and conservative activism. The Tea Party movement has been described as both a popular constitutional movement and as an "Astro Turf operation" purporting to be spontaneous and grassroots, but created by hidden elite interests. The movement supported small-government principles and opposed government-sponsored universal healthcare. Members of the movement called for lower taxes and for a reduction of the national debt and federal budget deficit through decreased government spending. ![]() The Tea Party movement was an American fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2009.
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