WASHINGTON (RNS) — A conservative think tank with ties to former President Donald Trump is denying the existence of an internal document detailing Christian nationalist policy goals should Trump win back the White House in November, but has nonetheless endorsed using the ideology to shape public policy.On Tuesday (Feb. 20), the Center for Renewing America, headed by a former Trump director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, denied a Politico report claiming that the Washington think tank drafted a document that includes “Christian nationalism” among a bulleted list of priorities for a second Trump term.
“The so-called reporting from Politico is false and we told them so on multiple occasions,” a CRA representative told Religion News Service on Tuesday via email. Politico stood by its reporting, saying in a statement to RNS that the story was “thoroughly vetted and reported” and that “CRA seems to be unable, or unwilling, to specify what it believes to be inaccurate.”
Vought has long been rumored to be on Trump’s shortlist for White House chief of staff should he be reelected, and the Center for Renewing America, which Vought founded in 2021, has been connected to Project 2025, a sweeping conservative plan to reshape the executive branch to greatly expand the power of the presidency, according to reports.
According to Rolling Stone, the CRA’s support for the U.S. to withdraw from NATO helped Trump warm to the proposal.
A graduate of Wheaton College, the evangelical Christian school outside Chicago, Vought has been openly supportive of forms of Christian nationalism. “We’re meant t …
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“The so-called reporting from Politico is false and we told them so on multiple occasions,” a CRA representative told Religion News Service on Tuesday via email. Politico stood by its reporting, saying in a statement to RNS that the story was “thoroughly vetted and reported” and that “CRA seems to be unable, or unwilling, to specify what it believes to be inaccurate.”
Vought has long been rumored to be on Trump’s shortlist for White House chief of staff should he be reelected, and the Center for Renewing America, which Vought founded in 2021, has been connected to Project 2025, a sweeping conservative plan to reshape the executive branch to greatly expand the power of the presidency, according to reports.
According to Rolling Stone, the CRA’s support for the U.S. to withdraw from NATO helped Trump warm to the proposal.
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