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Maya MacGuineas is the president of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Her areas of expertise include budget, tax, and economic policy. As a leading budget expert and a political independent, she has worked closely with members of both parties and serves as a trusted resource on Capitol Hill. MacGuineas testifies regularly before Congress and has published broadly, including regularly in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Atlantic, and numerous other outlets. She also appears regularly as a commentator on television.

MacGuineas oversees a number of the Committee’s projects including the grassroots coalition Fix the Debt; the Committee’s Fiscal Institute; and FixUS, a project seeking to better understand the root causes of our nation’s growing divisions and deteriorating political system, and to work with others to bring attention to these issues and the need to fix them. Her most recent area of focus is on the future of the economy, technology, and capitalism.

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Strategic-minded professional with deep experience in cutting edge macroeconomic research and advisory services for institutional investors and multinational corporations. Proven expertise in setting corporate strategy, driving product innovation and profitable new business acquisition, and building and maintaining excellent client relationships.

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Mark P. Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, where he co-directs an Institute on Manufacturing Science and Innovation. He is also a strategic partner with Montrose Lane (an energy-tech venture fund). Previously, Mills cofounded Digital Power Capital, a boutique venture fund, and was chairman and CTO of ICx Technologies, helping take it public in 2007. Mills is a regular contributor to Forbes.com and is author of Digital Cathedrals (2020) and Work in the Age of Robots (2018). He is also coauthor (with Peter Huber) of The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (2005).

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David A. Ditch, a policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, focuses on federal spending and fiscal policy. He is a research associate in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget. He has appeared on local radio stations across the country, and his work also been featured on FoxBusiness.com, the Los Angeles Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and many other publications. Prior to joining Heritage, David was a Budget Analyst for the Senate Budget Committee where he oversaw appropriations and agriculture. He has also worked for the Senate Small Business Committee, Rep. Todd Young, Rep. Mark Sanford, and Rep. Raul Labrador.

Today he tries to explain the 3.5 billion economic bill.

Mike Gonzalez, the Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, writes on Critical Race Theory, identity politics, diversity, multiculturalism, assimilation and nationalism, as well as foreign policy in general. 

Today he speaks about parents being targeted by the DOJ. because they are against CRT in schools.

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Joel Griffith earned his juris doctor at the Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law, with a dual emphasis in Alternative Dispute Resolution and Federal Income Taxation; he is currently a member of the State Bar of California. At Chapman, he was a charter board member and treasurer of the Investment Law Society, served as a charter member and vice-president of the Chapman chapter of the California Republican Lawyers Association, and competed on both the mock trial and mediation teams.

Following law school, Joel managed an equities trading account utilizing market neutral strategies. As an attorney, he worked with Heideman Nudelman Kalik, PC in Washington, D.C. During the 2012 presidential primary season, Joel worked for a campaign as MI state field director, OH state operations director, and WA parliamentarian/assistant delegate strategist.

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Zack Smith joins The Heritage Foundation as a legal fellow in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies after serving for several years as an assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of Florida. Prior to that, he spent two years as an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, which he joined after clerking for the Hon. Emmett R. Cox on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

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Katie Tubb is a senior policy analyst for energy and environmental issues in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Tubb researches and writes on subjects such as nuclear energy, climate change policies, and the benefits of free market environmentalism.

Tubb writes and contributes research to Heritage’s Issue Briefs and Backgrounder policy papers. She is a regular contributor to the think tank’s multimedia news organization, The Daily Signal.  

Her work also is featured in other national outlets such as The Washington Times, National Review, National Journal, Nuclear Townhall, and Real Clear Energy.

Tubb joined Heritage in 2012 as a research assistant in the Roe Institute. She previously was an intern there as well as in the office of then-Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind.

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Rose Quint is NAHB Assistant Vice President for Survey Research. Quint holds a B.S. in Economics/International Business from Old Dominion University as well as a Master’s degree in Economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Her responsibilities include planning and conducting industry surveys, specifically in the areas of builder sentiment, remodeling, housing affordability, and AD&C financing issues. Quint is also responsible for special research projects, such as studies on builders’ profitability, consumer preferences, construction costs and membership census.

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Bill Bullard joined R-CALF USA as the organization’s first Chief Executive Officer at national headquarters in Billings, Mont., on April 9, 2001.

Bullard has testified on behalf of R-CALF USA members before Congress and executive branch agencies, has managed numerous lawsuits on behalf of the organization, and is the organization’s registered lobbyist.

Bullard, formerly a cow/calf rancher in Perkins County, S.D., served as the Executive Director of the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission from 1995-2001. He has a B.S. in Political Science from Black Hills State University and completed a year of graduate studies at the University of South Dakota.

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David A. Ditch, a policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, focuses on federal spending and fiscal policy. He is a research associate in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget. He has appeared on local radio stations across the country, and his work also been featured on FoxBusiness.com, the Los Angeles Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and many other publications.

Prior to joining Heritage, David was a Budget Analyst for the Senate Budget Committee where he oversaw appropriations and agriculture. He has also worked for the Senate Small Business Committee, Rep. Todd Young, Rep. Mark Sanford, and Rep. Raul Labrador.

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