Heritage served as a policy and staff pipeline for the Trump campaign and the transition, helping provide a blueprint for the White House’s 2018 budget proposal.
They still have many staff members who went to work for the WH. So I don't think they are trying to distance themselves from trump.
Several Heritage analysts already have joined the administration, notes Romina Boccia, the lead author of this year’s Heritage budget blueprint. At the White House’s Domestic Policy Council, Paul Winfree, who oversaw last year’s budget blueprint at Heritage, is now deputy director and former Heritage researcher James Sherk is in charge of labor and employment policy. Justin Bogie, another Heritage analyst, was on the OMB landing team. Justin T. Johnson, a defense budgeting expert, was on the Pentagon landing team and may stay there, Boccia added.
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Once the campaign was over, the connections helped. Heritage’s president, former senator Jim DeMint (R), stumped for Mick Mulvaney when his fellow South Carolinian first ran for Congress in 2010 and last December praised Mulvaney, now director of the Office of Management and Budget, as someone who would “restore sanity” to fiscal choices.
read:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/27/trumps-budget-owes-a-huge-debt-to-this-right-wing-washington-think-tank/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.e9b29754416a
I do think it is demented's personality. He is as sexist as they come. He once pretty much said pregnant women, gays and women sleeping with their boyfriends should not be teachers. He fancies himself as a pious, religious man and if you do not adhere to his beliefs you are an enemy. He makes the Puritans look like hippies. I kid you not, I had the displeasure of meeting him. sanctimonious, condescending asshole is overstating his personality traits.
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