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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">bad econ trinity trump kudlow, navarro, moore</font></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">//</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/magazine/trump-government-heritage-foundation-think-tank.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">nyt</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">heritage, demint dunlop:</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Today it is clear that for all the chaos and churn of the current administration, Heritage has achieved a huge strategic victory. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Those who worked on the project estimate that hundreds of the people the think tank put forward landed jobs, in just about every government agency.</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Heritage’s recommendations included some of the most prominent members of Trump’s cabinet:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Scott Pruitt, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Betsy DeVos (</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">whose in-laws endowed Heritage’s Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society), </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Mick Mulvaney</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rick Perry, Jeff Sessions </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">and many more. Dozens of Heritage employees and alumni also joined the Trump administration — at last count 66 of them, according to Heritage, with two more still awaiting Senate confirmation. It is a kind of critical mass that Heritage had been working toward for nearly a half-century.</span></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></b></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Feulner’s first law is people are policy,” </b>Ed Feulner, Heritage’s founder and former president, told me recently. Feulner was the head of domestic policy for the Trump transition, charting the direction of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture and several other agencies. We met late on a Friday afternoon, in a sitting room at the Metropolitan Club in Washington, a private social club founded by a group of Treasury Department officials during the Civil War. At his feet as we spoke sat a small box of table cards for a <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">dinner he was hosting at the club that evening for the newly appointed director of Trump’s National Economic Council, the television personality<b> Larry Kudlow </b>— another name on Heritage’s Project to Restore America list</span>. Now 76, ruddy, white-haired and content, almost jovial, Feulner founded Heritage decades ago as an ambitious young legislative aide with a radical dream built on a simple concept. As he put it, sinking deeper into his club chair: “First, you have to have the right people.”</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">While Feulner and his senior staff had reserved the right to review policy papers, they generally avoided intervening in the research and publication process. DeMint and his leadership team were much more aggressive. Papers were heavily edited or even withheld from release altogether. </span><b times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">Several scholars quit. DeMint replaced them, bringing in as Heritage’s chief economist Stephen Moore, a Wall Street Journal editorial writer and a founder of the Club for Growth, a lobbying group that advocates cutting taxes.</b></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></b></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><b times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></b><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;"><b times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The turnover rates have also been historic. In March, The New York Times reported that nine of the top 21 White House and cabinet positions have been emptied and refilled at least once; neither Obama nor Bush had lost a single cabinet member by that point in their administrations.</b> Since taking office, Trump has replaced more than half of his 65 most influential advisers, according to a tracker created by the Brookings Institution. Christie recently laid the blame for the turnover on what he described as a “brutally unprofessional” transition, saying that proper vetting would have caught a lot of Trump’s most problematic appointees. A number of other senior advisers seem to be on shaky ground with the president, and an exodus is anticipated after the November midterm elections.</font></b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); font-weight: 400;">Churn is a central feature of this administration, even for its unofficial staffing agency. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Paul Winfree, a Heritage economist who helped draft Trump’s first budget</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); font-weight: 400;">, is back at the think tank. </span><span style="font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">So are Stephen Moore, who worked on the Trump tax cuts;</span><b style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">David Kreutzer, who played a key role in dissolving a White House working group that was studying the monetary costs associated with climate-warming carbon dioxide</span></b><span style="font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">; and Hans von Spakovsky, who helped run the now-defunct voter-fraud commission, which was created to find evidence to support Trump’s baseless claim that millions of people voted illegally for Hillary Clinton.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">In a sense, the transition is still going, and as long as Trump remains in office it may never end. “I get calls from people every day who still want to go in,” Dunlop told me. “Or I’ll hear from the White House, or I’ll run into someone at a reception or over coffee, and I’ll say, ‘I’ve got a name for you. I’ll send it along.’ ”</div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></p></div></div>