The Heritage Foundation history

Phillip Truluck came to Heritage in 1977 to establish the foundation’s research department.

During the 1980 presidential election, Heritage produced Mandate for Leadership, a 20 volume, 3,000-page guide of policy advice for whomever won the presidency.

The idea for a unified trade zone linking the economies of the United States, Canada, and Mexico had initially been raised by Ronald Reagan during his 1980 presidential campaign, and was developed and negotiated during the Reagan and Bush administrations.

Blumentahl, Sidney, The Rise of the Counter-establishment (New York, 1986), 37.Google Scholar

The Heritage Foundation 1986 Annual Report, 27.

In 1986, economist Julian Simon, then a Heritage senior fellow, took on the anti-immigration Federation for American Immigration Reform in a well-publicized debate.

The others mentioned have all contributed to later issues. It was not until 1987 that the New Right's frustrations over the lack of permanent conservative political gains under Reagan broke out in the open.

Feulner, Edwin J., “A Conservative Manifesto: Bush Can Do for Right What Reagan Couldn't.” Washington Post, 4 December 1988, L1.Google Scholar

During the 1988 Republican National Convention, Bush pledged to the delegates that he would not raise taxes: “Read my lips: No new taxes.”

Meese took on the first of his formal roles with Heritage in 1988, the final year of the Reagan presidency.

In 1993, during his first year in office and despite opposition from most of his fellow Democrats in Congress and many large left-leaning labor unions, Clinton successfully lobbied Congress to ratify the treaty.

Brian Walsh’s first Washington internship was with Heritage in 1996.

In 2005, Heritage released a much slimmed-down Mandate VI. But this version, National Review observed, no longer “bore an uncanny resemblance to a telephone book.” At 156 pages, the conservative publication wrote, “this year’s version looks more like Cliff’s Notes.”

If the nation wants to limit CO2 emissions, then it must turn to nuclear power.” In a March 2009 report, Heritage advised the incoming Obama administration to help meet its energy and environmental goals by adopting a seven-point plan to increase the use of nuclear power.

“Heritage Foundation Green Jobs Panel – Bought and Paid For By ExxonMobil,” politicalcorrection.org, May 4, 2009.

“Heartland Institute’s 2009 Climate Conference in New York: funding history of the sponsors,” DeSmogBlog.

Brendan DeMelle. “Denial-a-palooza Round 4: ‘International Conference on Climate Change’ Groups Funded by Exxon, Koch Industries,” DeSmogBlog, May 13, 2010.

“United States Could Learn from U.K.’s Global Warming Reversal,” The Daily Signal, September 30, 2010.

“Royal Society launches new short guide to the science of climate change,” The Royal Society, September 30, 2010.

In 2010, The Heritage Foundation severely misrepresented the Royal Society’s position on climate change, editing out ten pages of a report to make it appear that the scientific authority was uncertain about the occurrence of global warming.

Heritage Action was created in 2010.

A couple of years earlier, in 2010, Feulner heard a talk given by one of the movement’s leading figures, Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, at a meeting of a conservative dinner group in Georgetown. “When it was over, Richard Viguerie said to Jim: ‘That was such a fantastic speech.

Ted Cruz — to whom DeMint’s PAC had given nearly $1 million for his 2012 Senate run — had been a featured speaker on DeMint’s “Defund Obamacare” tour.

But above all, Heritage is a networking group. Its $80 million annual budget depends on six-figure donations from rich Republicans like Rebekah Mercer, whose family foundation has reportedly given Heritage $500,000 a year since 2013.

Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/8JFQL 81“Return of Climate Denial-a-Palooza: Heartland Institute Hitches Anti-Science Wagon to Vegas FreedomFest,” DeSmog, July 7, 2014.

In the summer of 2014, a year before Trump even declared his candidacy, the right-wing think tank had started assembling a 3,000-name searchable database of trusted movement conservatives from around the country who were eager to serve in a post-Obama government.

“The Many Problems of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan and Climate Regulations: A Primer,” Heritage Foundation, July 7, 2015.

In September 2015, representatives of Heritage and the left-leaning American Civil Liberties Union jointly signed a newspaper editorial recommending reform of civil asset forfeiture laws.

In March 2016, the Republican establishment stepped up its effort to stop Trump.

Ben Jervey. “State Investigations Into What Exxon Knew Double, and Exxon Gets Defensive,” Desmog, April 1, 2016.

Brendan Demelle. “Senators Launch Resolution, Speech Blitz Calling Out #WebOfDenial Blocking Climate Action,” DeSmog, July 11, 2016.

Other connections include David Kreutzer, who is on Trump’s “landing team” and Allen Gilmer, CEO at Drilling Info, Inc., who donated $2,700 to Donald John Trump, Sr. on September 28, 2016 according to disclosures. ,

(Press Release). “TRUMP CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCES NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISORY COUNCIL,” DonaldJTrump.com, October 7, 2016.

Severino openly discounts LGBT people’s rights — in 2016, he wrote that the North Carolina legislature’s bathroom bill was “common sense.”

Leaving the Paris Climate Accord: In August 2017, Trump announced the United States was ending its funding and membership in the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

Withdrawing from UNESCO: In October 2017, Trump announced he was putting an end to United States membership in the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).”

23, 2017, in his first pro-life action, Trump signed an executive order today reinstating the Mexico City Policy.

The Heritage Foundation was a Presenting Sponsor of the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), among a range of other conservative and pro-industry groups.

Heritage recommendations were used to create two of the Trump administration’s most significant policy successes: the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, an update of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Heritage claimed in 2017 that the administration had adopted so many of its long-desired reforms of the regulatory state that “Red Tape Rising,” Heritage’s annual tabulation of the cost and number of federal regulations, was renamed “Red Tape Receding.”

… Six weeks later, in September 2018, HHS terminated its contract with ABR and announced an ongoing audit into all fetal tissue research contracts.

Heritage President Kay Cole James announced the 2018 dedication of a new dormitory for the think tank’s interns as an expansion of its “base of operations” in the “fight” against the left.

Contributions and grants accounted for $75.6 million of Heritage’s $81 million total revenue for 2018.

Heritage listed 70.9 million views of its videos in 2019 and 303,000 subscribers to its weekly email (in addition to the 405,000 subscribers to the Daily Signal’s daily email). [102]

A 2020 Heritage report asserted that subsidies for wind and solar energy are particularly counterproductive:

Accessed March 5, 2021. https://www.heritage.org/staff/kim-holmes ^

He joined Heritage in 2021 as a visiting fellow for national security and foreign policy issues. [148]

Mike Pence began his role as a visiting fellow at Heritage in 2021, after four years as the vice president of the United States.