Director of Government Affairs @LiveAction | Fmr VP @JDVance & @SLOTUS, @BillCassidy | @TeamTrump | Marathoner | Explorer | Catholic | All things Louisiana
This morning, I testified before the @ChristLawmakers Committee on Life alongside North Dakota State Sen. Janne Myrdal on @LiveAction’s Baby Olivia.
The @ChristLawmakers Life Committee voted to endorse Baby Olivia as model legislation nationwide. Sen. Myrdal LED Olivia in ND!
🚨 The American people voted for action, not delay, and Republicans are delivering.
We've led the charge on reconciliation and we won't let Democrats' refusal to legislate stop us from rooting out fraud, lowering costs, and strengthening our national defense.
We are seizing this moment and we are going to get this done. 🇺🇸
Ran into @lukebryan at dinner. A genuinely nice guy. We chatted about the incredible work he and his family are doing for families experiencing pediatric heart defects and Down Syndrome. Amazing work happening at the Brett Boyer Foundation. Every human life matters.
One of the problems we have in public policy is that wonks don’t give any consideration to how their ideas will collide with actual human behavior. Take our Trump Accounts. There are millions of parents who will in theory benefit enormously from this investment in their kids’ future, but the policy does no good if parents never find out how to sign up for it.
From day one of our administration we’ve tried to think outside the box on problems like this. That’s why Elon recruited the best and brightest engineers and designers to help us make government more efficient. Some of those same exceptional design and software talents, under @jgebbia’s leadership, have been working for months at National Design Studio on a different problem: making government programs like the Trump Accounts more user friendly.
With the Trump Accounts we’ve met people where they are. Instead of expecting them to navigate a ton of complicated forms on https://t.co/4MbCJUKklg, we’ve built out a simple, easy-to-use app to sign parents up. The app helps us market the program and sign up users, and deploying it this early does something else: it gives our engineers a pilot program to test out Treasury’s digital back-end systems and iron out kinks in advance of the delivery of the funds later this summer. So, parents, sign up now, and help us invest in your kids for tomorrow.
Because great policy only works when people can actually use it. That is the power of design. When government is easier to understand, easier to navigate, and easier to trust, people benefit. The American experience should be as great as the American promise.
Big news in the think tank space on the right - Young think tank EPIC winding down.
I had written about the outsize impact that EPIC and its founder Paul Winfree had on the GOP crafting the "One Big Beautiful Bill" last year: https://t.co/7hcHOmVHoy
"The people who built this organization are moving on to make and impact in new and consequential roles" ... "Our mission will continue through the work our team will take up elsewhere."
Mike Needham, a longtime aide to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, has been promoted to a top national security job in the White House
https://t.co/vma97JGPtk
America250 is supposed to celebrate FREEDOM.
Instead, on July 4th, our nation’s birthday, we’re restoring taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood.
Your money, funding the abortion industry on Independence Day.
I joined @LiveAction today on the Hill to say: Defund Planned Parenthood now!
We need a bold, unapologetically pro-family, pro-life America. 🇺🇸
.@HHSOCR is reopening its Conscience and Religious Freedom Division, which was initially opened in 2018 and shut down in 2023.
The renewed office will primarily take on cases about providers with conscience objections to abortion and gender transitions.
https://t.co/3dsjr8qXQm
🚨Planned Parenthood funding resumes July 4. I asked @POTUS if he would like Congress to stop it.
“Congress is now negotiating. We've been very good for the people that want it, for the people that are here, and we'll see how that goes. It's been a very thorny to put it. To put it mildly, it's been a very thorny issue. It's under it's all under negotiation right now,” he told @DailySignal.
This is a particularly special mother's day in the Vance clan, as Usha is about to become a mom for the fourth time. We thought it would be fun to put out a little excerpt from my new book about the early days of our relationship.
To all the moms out there, but especially to Usha: Happy Mother's Day!
https://t.co/UDbc0CfHTZ
SCOOP: The White House today launched a website directing expectant mothers to pregnancy centers and MAHA resources, @realDailyWire can first report.
The move is big win for pro-lifers, after years of attacks on pregnancy centers from leftist groups.
https://t.co/l9r6P3fWLo