Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said he is joining former South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint’s Conservative Partnership Institute, a networking “hub” for conservative lawmakers.
Meadows, who is a former Republican congressman from North Carolina, said he will begin work to recruit more conservative legislators such as Rep. Jim Jordan and Sens. Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley, who have been successful due partly to their large support networks and staff.
In an interview with Fox & Friends, Meadows described CPI as “a hub network that brings conservative groups together and conservative members together to better serve and empower those members and organizations to serve the forgotten men and women.”
DeMint founded CPI in 2017 because he thought the conservative movement did not do well to promote and aid conservative legislators after they arrive in Washington D.C.
Meadows said his first day at CPI was Wednesday, adding: “We’re going to continue to make sure that we place a priority on the American people.”
The former chief of staff remains in frequent contact with former President Donald Trump and serves as an adviser ahead of his Senate impeachment trial.
In addition to bolstering conservative policies in Washington, Meadows’s role in CPI will also work to counter President Biden’s nominees and policies during the first 100 days of the new administration, sources familiar with his plans said.
“What we’re seeing is that President Biden is putting America last,” Meadows said on Fox News of Biden’s sweeping executive orders reversing Trump’s policies. “And whether it’s our border policy or any of the other executive orders that he’s putting forth, it’s going to have a real chilling effect on jobs.”
He added that Congress should place its primary focus on creating more jobs rather than Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, which is slated to start next month. Trump was impeached on a charge of incitement of insurrection.
On Tuesday, the Senate rejected a motion by Sen. Rand Paul to stop the trial from happening, arguing that it is unconstitutional, but it was defeated by a 55-45 vote.
“If today’s Senate vote is any sign, the Democrats’ ridiculous impeachment of former President Trump will fail—again—by a long shot. Dead on arrival,” Meadows tweeted in response.
