By Kay Coles James / The Heritage
Foundation
President Donald Trump quoted Heritage
expert Tommy Binion who was on Fox and Friends discussing how over two-thirds of Heritage's policy
recommendations had already been adopted by President Trump's Administration.
The President tweeted:
The Trump
Administration's embrace of these conservative policy recommendations is a
huge step forward.
The Washington Examiner, in a piece, goes on to say:
"With unprecedented speed, the
Trump administration has already implemented nearly two-thirds of the 334
agenda items called for by the Heritage Foundation, a pace faster than former
President Reagan who embraced the conservative think tank’s legendary “Mandate for
Leadership” blueprint."
Read more about the
policy recommendations that President Trump implemented
"A lot of people are seeing expansions in their benefit
packages. We are reaching statistical full employment. The Heritage Foundation
today has issued a report saying that 65% of Donald Trump’s agenda has already
been accomplished in just one year. There isn’t a president in modern times who
got even close to that. The Heritage Foundation reporting that 65% of Trump’s
agenda has already passed. Trump is not slowing down."
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Heritage Foundation’s New President Pledges
to Reach ‘Americans Who Really Are Conservative but Just Don’t Know It Yet’
By Ken
McIntyre
Conservatives must persevere in gracefully countering
misinformation from the left that convinces too many Americans liberal policies
will improve their lives, the new president of The Heritage Foundation said in
a speech laying out her vision for the leading think tank.
“Unfortunately, many Americans are misinformed,” Kay
Coles James said. “Like us, they want liberty, equality, opportunity, but
unlike us, they mistakenly believe that those ideals can be achieved by the
failed policies of the left.”
Heritage billed the speech, entitled “Imagine America: A
Pathway Forward for All Americans,” as an outline of James’ vision not just for
the leading conservative think tank but for the nation as a whole.
James, who spoke for 16 minutes, said Heritage will reach
out purposefully to Americans of all backgrounds “who really are conservative,
but just don’t know it yet.”
Americans need an alternative to the mainstream media.
But this can't be done alone.
She spoke during an invitation-only reception at
Heritage’s Capitol Hill headquarters, where the think tank’s leaders also
thanked its longtime president, Edwin J. Feulner, for returning to the helm
last year during the search that resulted in her selection.
The more than 300 guests included well-known Washington
figures such as Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who sat in the front row of
Heritage’s Allison Auditorium and moved toward James to shake her hand as she
returned to her seat.
In her remarks, James described becoming Heritage’s
president as the culmination of her personal journey and professional career.
James has served over three decades in government,
academia, and the private sector.
She was associate director of the White House Office of
National Drug Control Policy under President George H.W. Bush; Virginia’s health
secretary under Gov. George Allen; director of the Office of Personnel
Management under President George W. Bush; dean of the School of Government at
Regent University; and, most recently, a senior member of President Donald
Trump’s transition team.
For the past decade, she also had headed the Gloucester
Institute, a leadership training organization in Gloucester, Virginia.
On Jan. 1, she formally took the reins of The Heritage
Foundation from Feulner, who introduced her.
“I inherited scholars and staff that are the most driven
and dedicated team that anyone could ever hope to lead,” James said.
“President Reagan paid us a very special compliment when
he said, and I quote: ‘Success in politics is about issues, ideas, and the
vision we have for our country and the world. In fact, the very sum and
substance of the work of The Heritage Foundation.’”
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IN OTHER NEWS
RASMUSSEN:
TRUMP APPROVAL 7% HIGHER THAN OBAMA AT SAME TIME OF PRESIDENCY
A Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll showed that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve
of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-eight percent (48%) disapprove.
By comparison, President Obama earned 43% approval on this date in the
second year of his presidency.
