The conservative leaders of the Conservative Action Project (CAP) have issued the following
statement urging conservative in Congress to back President Donald Trump’s attack on government waste, bloat and inefficiency in grant funding, organizational charts of agencies, and even in the missions of federal offices:
President Trump is acting swiftly and decisively on his mandate to restore accountability, efficiency, and legality within the federal government. Conservatives in Congress must now support him in that effort with prudent management of the March 14 funding deadline.
In a matter of weeks, the Trump administration has identified key areas of waste, bloat and inefficiency in grant funding, organizational charts of agencies, and even in the missions of federal offices. Rather than simply point it out, the administration is taking decisive steps to address it – for example, by shuttering the offices of the U.S. Agency for International Development to reassess the mission of the organization while contemplating its possible reorganization under the State Department.
Conservatives have waited decades to see this kind of reform action come to Washington. We applaud the Trump administration for their work.
However, it is critical that conservatives in Congress support these efforts. Conservatives must present a funding strategy for appropriations and reconciliation that reflects the priorities of the Trump administration to clean up waste, restore accountability to the federal workforce, address the illegal immigration crisis, and support the efforts of the Department of Government Efficiency to make actionable recommendations.
The President is doing what he was elected to do. Conservatives in Congress must not undermine him with funding bills that simply continues the out-of-control spending and failed Biden administration’s policies responsible for so much of the rot that is now, thankfully, being exposed.
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Attorney General
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Chairman
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Chairman, Conservative Partnership Institute
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Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs
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Rebecca Weber
CEO,
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The Carlstrom Group
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President
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President
Liberty Consulting
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White House Advisor
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Lisa B. Nelson
The Honorable Paul S. Teller, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President
Advancing American Freedom
William L. Walton
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Vice Chairman, CPAC
Eric Teetsel
Chief Executive Officer
Center for Renewing America
Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (Ret.)
Executive Vice President
Family Research Council
The Honorable Lou Terhar
Former Member
Ohio State Senate
The Honorable Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D.
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Kansas (2011-2017)
Seton Motley
President
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James L. Martin
Founder/Chairman
60 Plus Association
Kristen A. Ullman
President
Eagle Forum
Drew McKissick
State Chairman
South Carolina Republican Party
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Founder and President
STAND Foundation, Inc.
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President
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President
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Richard Manning
President
Americans for Limited Government
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Executive Director
New Louisiana Foundation
Tom DeWeese
President
American Policy Center
Paavo Ensio
Chairman
Universal Minerals Group
Shea Bradley-Farrell, PhD
President,
Counterpoint Institute for Policy, Research and Education
Frank Gaffney
President
Institute for the American Future
The Honorable Gary L. Bauer
President
American Values
Nancy Schulze
Chief of Political Strategy
Physicians for Reform
Kevin Freeman
Founder
NSIC Institute
Gary Marx
President
The Concord Fund
The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell
Chairman, Conservative Action Project
Chairman, CNP Action, Inc.
David N. Bossie
President
Citizens United
The Honorable Tony Perkins
President
Family Research Council
Ed Corrigan
Vice Chairman, Conservative Action Project and
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Chad Connelly
Founder and President
Faith Wins
Thomas E. McClusky
Principal
Greenlight Strategies, LLC
Myron Ebell
Chairman
American Lands Council
Cleta Mitchell, Esq.
Senior Legal Fellow
Conservative Partnership Institute
Thomas H. Jones
Founder
American Accountability Foundation
Wesley Denton
Chief Operating Officer
Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)
Noah Wall
President & Founder
State Leadership Initiative
Lori Roman
President
ACRU Action Fund
The Honorable Bob McEwen
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Ohio
The Honorable Scott Walker
President
Young America's Foundation
John Yep
President
Catholics for Catholics
Twila Brase, RN, PHN
Co-founder and President
Citizens' Council for Health Freedom
Brigitte Gabriel
Chairwoman
ACT For America
Matthew Tyrmand
Investigative Journalist
Penna Dexter
Co-host
Point of View Radio
Saulius “Saul” Anuzis
President
60 Plus Association
Mike Wolfe
Former Harris County School Trustee
Harris County Department of Education
Ken Cuccinelli II
Sr. Fellow
Center for Renewing America
Kielle C. Lindsey
President
The Lindsey Foundation
Alan Sears
Founder
Alliance Defending Freedom
April Zlatnik
Executive Assistant
Truth & Liberty
Alyse Lo Bianco
Writer & Producer
MNA Productions
Robert K. Fischer
President
Protecting South Dakota Kids
James Taylor
President
The Heartland Institute
Amy Kremer
Chairwoman
Women for America First
Allen Hebert
Joan Holt Lindsey
President
Lindsey Communications
Charles J. Cooper
Assistant Attorney General, President Ronald Reagan (1985-1988)
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Trent England
Executive Director
Save Our States
Sean Noble
President
American Encore
The Honorable Elias Coop-Gonzalez
Delegate
WV House of Delegates
Tim LeFever
Chairman of the Board
Capitol Resource Institute
Ralph A. Rebandt II
Founder/President
Michigan Lighthouse Ministries
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U.S. House of Representatives
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Congress is already undermining Trump. Republican leadership in both houses is generally corrupt and anti-Trump, and doing nothing toward producing a budget that would cut unnecessary and unaffordable spending. Instead, they seem intent on doing nothing until the funding runs out, and then claiming there is no alternative to another CR maintaining the previous administration's spending to keep the gravy train rolling.