| Led NASA efforts on Trump transition team |
Chris Anderson Office of Senator Steve Daines | No known connection |
Jeff Anderson The American Main Street Initiative | Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics |
Michael Anton Hillsdale College | Deputy assistant to the President for Strategic Communications on the National Security Council |
EJ Antoni The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
Andrew Arthur Center for Immigration Studies | Panel member at the Federal Labor Relations Authority |
Paul Atkins Patomak Global Partners | Adviser for financial regulations on Trump transition team |
Julie Axelrod Center for Immigration Studies | Senior adviser to the associate policy director for the Environmental Protection Agency |
| Operations director for the Presidential Personnel Office Worked on Trump’s 2016 campaign |
| Special assistant to the president in the Domestic Policy Council |
Stewart Baker Steptoe and Johnson LLP | No known connection |
Erik Baptist Alliance Defending Freedom | Lawyer for the Environmental Protection Agency |
Brent Bennett Texas Public Policy Foundation | No known connection |
John Berlau Competitive Enterprise Institute | No known connection |
Russell Berman Hoover Institution | Senior policy adviser in the State Department |
Sanjai Bhagat University of Colorado, Boulder | No known connection |
Stephen Billy Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America | Senior adviser in the Office of Management and Budget |
Brad Bishop American Cornerstone Institute | Deputy assistant communications secretary for the Department of Housing and Urban Development |
| No known connection |
Josh Blackman South Texas College of Law | No known connection |
Jim Blew Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies | Assistant secretary for planning, evaluation and policy development at the Department of Education |
Robert Bortins Classical Conversations | No known connection |
Rachel Bovard Conservative Partnership Institute | No known connection |
Matt Bowman Alliance Defending Freedom | Deputy general counsel at the Department of Health and Human Services |
Steven G. Bradbury The Heritage Foundation | Deputy transportation secretary, briefly transportation secretary in Jan. 2021 |
Preston Brashers The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
| Chief speechwriter to the attorney general |
Kyle Brosnan The Heritage Foundation | Served senior roles at the Departments of Health and Human Services and Homeland Security |
Patrick T. Brown Ethics and Public Policy Center | No known connection |
Robert Burkett ACLJ Action | Held positions in the Department of Defense, Commerce and Labor |
Michael Burley American Cornerstone Institute | Special assistant to the president and associate director of presidential personnel |
Jonathan Butcher The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
Mark Buzby Buzby Maritime Associates, LLC | |
Margaret Byfield American Stewards of Liberty | No known connection |
| National deputy director in the Department of Commerce Consultant for Trump transition team |
Anthony Campau Center for Renewing America | Chief of staff and counselor of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget Member of Trump transition team |
Frank Carroll Professional Forest Management | No known connection |
Oren Cass American Compass | No known connection |
Brian J. Cavanaugh American Global Strategies | Special assistant to the president for national security affairs on the National Security Council |
Spencer Chretien The Heritage Foundation | Special assistant to Trump, associate director of presidential personnel |
Claire Christensen American Cornerstone Institute | No known connection |
Victoria Coates The Heritage Foundation | Held senior positions in the Department of Energy and the National Security Council Worked on Trump transition team for National Security Council |
Ellie Cohanim Independent Women’s Forum | Deputy special envoy to combat anti-Semitism at the Department of State |
| Acting under secretary of defense for intelligence and security in the Department of Defense |
Elbridge Colby Marathon Initiative | Deputy assistant defense secretary for strategy and force development |
| Deputy chief of staff for policy and director of the office of policy & strategy planning in the Department of Commerce |
Lisa Correnti Center for Family and Human Rights | Delegate to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women |
Monica Crowley The Nixon Seminar | Assistant public affairs secretary for the Department of Transportation |
Laura Cunliffe Independent Women’s Forum | Chief of staff to the ambassador to the United Nations, associate director for education, income maintenance and labor at the Office of Management and Budget |
Tom Dans Amberwave Partners | Counselor to the under secretary for international affairs at the Department of Treasury |
| Deputy assistant defense secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Member of the Department of Defense transition team and surrogate for Trump’s 2016 campaign |
Chris De Ruyter National Center for Urban Operations | No known connection |
Corey DeAngelis American Federation for Children | No known connection |
Caroline DeBerry Paragon Health Institute | No known connection |
Arielle Del Turco Family Research Council | No known connection |
Irv Dennis American Cornerstone Institute | Chief financial officer of the Department of Housing and Urban Development |
David Deptula Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies | No known connection |
Chuck DeVore Texas Public Policy Foundation | No known connection |
James Di Pane The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
Matthew Dickerson The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
Michael Ding America First Legal Foundation | Deputy White House liaison for Export-Import Bank |
David Ditch The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
Natalie Dodson Ethics and Public Policy Center | No known connection |
Dave Dorey The Fairness Center | Deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism and threat prevention at the Department of Homeland Security |
Max Eden American Enterprise Institute | No known connection |
| Chief financial officer for the Department of Homeland Security |
Joseph Edlow The Heritage Foundation | Deputy director for policy at Citizenship and Immigration Services |
Jen Ehlinger Booz Allen Hamilton | Communications strategist at the State Department |
John Ehrett Office of Senator Josh Hawley | No known connection |
Kristen Eichamer The Heritage Foundation | Deputy press secretary for NASA |
Robert S. Eitel Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies | Senior counselor to the secretary of education |
Will Estrada Parents Rights Foundation | No known connection |
Farnaz Farkish Thompson McGuireWoods | No known connection |
Jon Feere Center for Immigration Studies | Senior adviser to the Director and chief of staff at Immigration and Customs Enforcement Immigration adviser on Trump’s 2016 campaign, member of Trump transition team |
Baruch Feigenbaum Reason Foundation | No known connection |
Travis Fisher The Heritage Foundation | Adviser in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Department of Energy |
George Fishman Center for Immigration Studies | Deputy general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security |
Leslie Ford The Heritage Foundation | Special assistant to Trump for domestic policy |
Aharon Friedman Federal Policy Group | Senior adviser to the assistant secretary for tax policy at the Treasury Department |
Bruce Frohnen Ohio Northern University College of Law | No known connection |
| Director of the office of external affairs and communications at the Economic Development Administration |
| Deputy assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Transportation Member of Department of Transportation transition team |
Caleigh Gabel American Cornerstone Institute | Special assistant at the Department of Housing and Urban Development |
Christopher Gacek Family Research Council | No known connection |
Alexandra Gaiser River Financial Inc. | Lawyer for the Treasury Department |
| No known connection |
Patty-Jane Geller The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
Andrew Gillen Texas Public Policy Foundation | No known connection |
James S. Gilmore Gilmore Global Group LLC | Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe |
Vance Ginn Vance Ginn Economic Consulting, LLC | Associate director for economic policy at the Office of Management and Budget |
Alma Golden The Institute for Women’s Health | Deputy assistant administrator for the Agency for International Development |
Chadwick R. Gore Defense Forum Foundation | No known connection |
David Gortler Ethics and Public Policy Center | No known connection |
Brian Gottstein The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
Dan Greenberg Competitive Enterprise Institute | Senior policy adviser to the labor secretary |
Rob Greenway Hudson Institute | Senior director of the National Security Council |
Rachel Greszler The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
DJ Gribbin Madrus Consulting | Special assistant to the president for infrastructure at the National Economic Council |
Garrison Grisedale American Cornerstone Institute | Speechwriter for the housing and urban development secretary |
Joseph Grogan USC Schaeffer School for Health Policy and Economics | Director of the United States Domestic Policy Council |
| No known connection |
Jeffrey Gunter Republican Jewish Coalition | |
| Special assistant to the assistant administrator at the U.S. Agency for International Development |
| Michigan state co-chair for Trump’s 2016 campaign |
Amalia Halikias The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
Richard Hanania Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology | No known connection |
Simon Hankinson The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
| Senior counsel to the assistant administrator for air and radiation at the Environmental Protection Agency |
Derek Harvey Office of Representative Devin Nunes | Middle East director on the National Security Council |
Jason Hayes Mackinac Center for Public Policy | No known connection |
| No known connection |
| Deputy press secretary at the Office of Management and Budget |
Troup Hemenway Personnel Policy Operations | Associate director for National Security in the Presidential Personnel Office Member of Trump transition team and Trump’s 2016 campaign policy team |
Nathan Hitchen Equal Rights Institute | No known connection |
| Ambassador to the Netherlands |
Gabriella Hoffman Independent Women’s Forum | No known connection |
Tom Homan The Heritage Foundation | Acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
| Member of the Trump transition team overseeing the Environmental Protection Agency |
Mike Howell The Heritage Foundation | Oversight counsel at the Department of Homeland Security |
Valerie Huber The Institute for Women’s Health | Chief of staff for the assistant health secretary |
Andrew Hughes American Cornerstone Institute | Chief of staff for the housing and urban development secretary |
Joseph Humire Center for a Secure Free Society | No known connection |
Christopher Iacovella American Securities Association | No known connection |
Melanie Israel The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
Ken Ivory Utah State Representative | No known connection |
Roman Jankowski The Heritage Foundation | Acting chief of staff at the privacy office of the Department of Homeland Security |
James Jay Carafano The Heritage Foundation | Primary aide in State Department transition team |
| No known connection |
Emilie Kao Alliance Defending Freedom | No known connection |
Jared M. Kelson Boyden Gray & Associates | Attorney-adviser in the legal counsel’s office at the Department of Justice |
Aaron Kheriaty Ethics and Public Policy Center | No known connection |
Ali Kilmartin Alliance Defending Freedom | Deputy assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Labor |
Julie Kirchner Federation for American Immigration Reform | Ombudsman of citizenship and immigration services at the Department of Homeland Security Immigration adviser on Trump’s 2016 campaign |
Dan Kish Institute for Energy Research | No known connection |
Kenneth A. Klukowski Schaerr Jaffe | Held positions in the Department of Justice and Office of Management and Budget Senior adviser for Constitutional rights on the Trump transition team |
Adam Korzeniewski American Principles Project | Counsel at the Treasury Department |
Bethany Kozma Keystone Policy | Deputy chief of staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development |
| Chief information officer of the intelligence community in the office of the director of national intelligence |
Julius Krein American Affairs | No known connection |
Stanley Kurtz Ethics and Public Policy Center | No known connection |
David LaCerte Baker Botts, LLP | Deputy associate director of the Office of Personnel Management |
Paul J. Larkin The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
Paul Lawrence Lawrence Consulting | Under secretary for benefits at the Department of Veterans Affairs |
James R. Lawrence III Envisage Law | Deputy general counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services, chief counsel of the Food and Drug Administration |
Nathan Leamer Targeted Victory | No known connection |
David Legates University of Delaware | Deputy assistant secretary of commerce for observation and prediction at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
Marlo Lewis Competitive Enterprise Institute | No known connection |
Ben Lieberman Competitive Enterprise Institute | No known connection |
| Policy adviser at the Department of Housing and Urban Development |
Evelyn Lim American Cornerstone Institute | Regional administrator at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, deputy chief of staff in the office of the homeland security secretary |
Morgan Lorraine Viña Jewish Institute for National Security of America | Chief of staff for international security affairs for the under secretary of defense |
Mario Loyola Competitive Enterprise Institute | Associate director for regulatory reform at the White House Council on Environmental Quality |
John G. Malcolm The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
Joseph Masterman Cooper & Kirk, PLLC | No known connection |
Earl Matthews The Vandenberg Coalition | Acting general counsel of the Department of the Army Served on Trump’s Department of Defense transition team |
Dan Mauler Heritage Action for America | No known connection |
Drew McCall American Cornerstone Institute | No known connection |
Trent McCotter Boyden Gray & Associates | Deputy associate attorney general |
Micah Meadowcroft The American Conservative | White House liaison for the Environmental Protection Agency |
Edwin Meese III The Heritage Foundation | Was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Trump |
Jessica Melugin Competitive Enterprise Institute | No known connection |
Frank Mermoud Orpheus International | No known connection |
Mark Miller Office of Governor Kristi Noem | No known connection |
Cleta Mitchell Conservative Partnership Institute | Joined the call in which Trump asked Georgia’s top election official to find votes for him |
| Assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs |
Caitlin Moon American Center for Law & Justice | No known connection |
Clare Morell Ethics and Public Policy Center | Special assistant in the Office on Violence Against Women |
Mark Morgan The Heritage Foundation | Acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection |
Hunter Morgen American Cornerstone Institute | Special assistant to Trump, White House senior adviser for policy and strategy Worked on Trump’s 2016 campaign and Trump transition team |
Rachel Morrison Ethics and Public Policy Center | No known connection |
Jonathan Moy The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
Iain Murray Competitive Enterprise Institute | No known connection |
Ryan Nabil National Taxpayers Union | No known connection |
Michael Nasi Jackson Walker LLP | No known connection |
Lucian Niemeyer The Niemeyer Group, LLC | Assistant secretary of defense for energy, installations and environment |
| Assistant secretary for industry and analysis in the International Trade Administration |
| Director of defense research and engineering for research and technology in the Department of Defense |
Kathy Nuebel Kovarik Sagitta Solutions, LLC | Policy and strategy chief at Customs and Immigration Services |
Caleb Orr Boyden Gray & Associates | No known connection |
Nina Owcharenko Schaefer The Heritage Foundation | Senior counselor to the health and human services secretary Served on Trump’s landing team for the Department of Health and Human Services |
Matt O’Brien Immigration Reform Law Institute | No known connection |
| Chief executive of the U.S. Agency for Global Media |
| Chief innovation officer and director of the Innovation, Technology, Research Hub in the U.S. Agency for International Development |
Michael Pillsbury The Heritage Foundation | Chair of the Defense Policy Board at the Department of Defense Trump said in 2018 that he was the “leading authority on China” |
Patrick Pizzella Leadership Institute | |
Robert Poole Reason Foundation | No known connection |
| No known connection |
Kevin Preskenis Allymar Health Solutions | Chief of staff to the assistant secretary and chief financial officer at the Department of Commerce |
Pam Pryor National Committee for Religious Freedom | Senior bureau official for international organization affairs at the State Department Led faith outreach initiative during Trump’s 2016 campaign |
Thomas Pyle Institute for Energy Research | No known connection |
John Ratcliffe American Global Strategies | Director of national intelligence |
Paul Ray The Heritage Foundation | Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs |
Joseph Reddan Flexilis Forestry, LLC | No known connection |
Jay W. Richards The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
Jordan Richardson Heise Suarez Melville, P.A. | Special assistant to Trump for domestic policy |
Jason Richwine Center for Immigration Studies | Deputy director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology |
Shaun Rieley The American Conservative | No known connection |
Lora Ries The Heritage Foundation | Acting deputy chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security Served on Trump’s transition team |
| No known connection |
Mark Robeck Energy Evolution Consulting LLC | Deputy general counsel for energy policy |
| Deputy chief of staff at the Department of Commerce lowa communications director for Trump’s 2016 campaign |
Mark Royce NOVA-Annandale College | No known connection |
Reed Rubinstein America First Legal Foundation | Deputy associate attorney general |
William Ruger American Institute for Economic Research | Trump nominated him to serve as the ambassador to Afghanistan, though the nomination was returned |
Austin Ruse Center for Family and Human Rights | No known connection |
Brent D. Sadler The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
Jon Sanders John Locke Foundation | No known connection |
Carla Sands America First Policy Institute | Ambassador to Denmark Economic adviser on Trump’s 2016 campaign |
| No known connection |
Brett D. Schaefer The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
Matt Schuck American Cornerstone Institute | Special communications adviser at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (now known as U.S. Agency for Global Media) Communications director on Trump’s 2016 campaign in Wisconsin |
| Deputy general counsel for the Environmental Protection Agency |
Jon Schweppe American Principles Project | No known connection |
Marc Scribner Reason Foundation | No known connection |
Darin Selnick Selnick Consulting | Senior adviser to the veterans affairs secretary |
Josh Sewell Taxpayers for Common Sense | No known connection |
Kathleen Sgamma Western Energy Alliance | No known connection |
Matt Sharp Alliance Defending Freedom | No known connection |
Judy Shelton Independent Institute | Served as an adviser on Trump’s transition team Trump nominated her to the Board of the Federal Reserve, but her nomination stalled in the Senate |
Nathan Simington Federal Communications Commission | Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission |
Loren Smith Skyline Policy Risk Group | Deputy assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Transportation Served on Trump’s landing team for the Department of Labor |
Zack Smith The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
Jack Spencer The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
Adrienne Spero U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security | Senior counselor to the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security |
Thomas W. Spoehr The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
Peter St Onge The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
Chris Stanley Functional Government Initiative | Chief of congressional and intergovernmental affairs at the U.S. Census Bureau |
Paula M. Stannard Attorney | Deputy General Counsel at the Department of Health and Human Services Led health care reform on Trump’s transition team |
Parker Stathatos Texas Public Policy Foundation | No known connection |
William Steiger Consultant | Chief of staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development |
Kenny Stein Institute for Energy Research | No known connection |
Robby Stephany Saunders Coalition for a Prosperous America | No known connection |
Corey Stewart Stewart PLLC | Virginia state chair of Trump’s 2016 campaign, was later fired |
Mari Stull American Opportunity Foundation | Senior adviser to the State Department’s Bureau of International Organization Affairs |
Katharine T. Sullivan 1792 Exchange | Principal deputy assistant attorney general |
Brett Swearingen Miller Johnson | No known connection |
| No known connection |
| Special assistant to the deputy assistant defense secretary for stability and humanitarian affairs |
| Senior counsel on the White House Council on Environment Quality |
Katy Talento AllBetter Health | Health care policy adviser on the White House Domestic Policy Council Health care policy adviser for Trump’s 2016 campaign |
Tony Tata Tata Leadership Group, LLC | Senior adviser to defense secretary Trump nominated him to be defense under secretary for policy, but the confirmation was canceled and nomination was withdrawn |
Todd Thurman American Cornerstone Institute | Digital strategy specialist and White House liaison at the Department of Housing and Urban Development |
Brett Tolman Tolman Group | Adviser to White House on pardons and commutations, secured a pardon for Jared Kushner’s father |
Kayla M. Tonnessen Recovery for America Now Foundation | Chief of staff of the Office of National Drug Control Policy |
Joe Trotter American Legislative Exchange Council | No known connection |
Tevi Troy Mercatus Center | No known connection |
| Special adviser at the Department of Commerce |
Erin Valdez Texas Public Policy Foundation | No known connection |
Mark Vandroff Fincantieri Marine Group | Senior director for defense policy at the National Security Council |
Jessica M. Vaughan Center for Immigration Studies | No known connection |
John Venable The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
Andrew N. Vollmer Mercatus Center | No known connection |
Greg Walcher Natural Resources Group, LLC | No known connection |
| Counsel to the commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission |
David M. Walsh Takota Group | No known connection |
Erin Walsh The Heritage Foundation | Assistant commerce secretary, director general of the United States Commercial Service Co-led Trump’s State Department transition team |
Jacklyn Ward American Cornerstone Institute | No known connection |
Emma Waters The Heritage Foundation | No known connection |
Alexander William Salter Texas Tech University | No known connection |
Michael Williams American Cornerstone Institute | Principal deputy general counsel in the Department of Housing and Urban Development |
| No known connection |
| Acting Principal at the office of the assistant labor secretary for policy |
| Assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security |
| Senior White House adviser to the Department of Homeland Security |
Cesar Ybarra FreedomWorks | No known connection |
John Zadrozny America First Legal Foundation | Acting chief of staff of Customs and Immigration Services |
| No known connection |