President Trump announced key senior staff appointments to the White House Domestic Policy Council (“DPC”). He previously announced Vince Haley will serve as DPC Director.
Heidi Overton will serve as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. Dr. Overton was formerly Chief Policy Officer and Vice Chair of the Center for a Healthy America at the America First Policy Institute. She served as a White House Fellow in the first Trump Administration in both the Office of American Innovation and the Domestic Policy Council. Prior to that, Dr. Overton was a general surgery resident at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and, during medical school, was an appointee of Governor Susana Martinez to the University of New Mexico Board of Regents. Dr. Overton is a board-certified physician in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine and holds a B.A. in Health, Medicine, and Human Values from the University of New Mexico, an M.D. from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Sam Adolphsen will serve as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. Adolphsen was previously Policy Director at the Foundation for Government Accountability where he worked across the country to reform broken government programs and get Americans back to work. Prior to his time at FGA, he served in many leadership and policy roles in Maine including Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Commissioner of Finance at the Department of Health and Human Services and as the Director of the Center for Open Government and Director of Government and External Affairs at the Maine Heritage Policy Center. Adolphsen holds a B.S. summa cum laude in Business Administration and an M.B.A. from Husson University.
Theo Merkel will serve as Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, focusing primarily on healthcare policy. Merkel formerly served as Director of the Private Health Reform Initiative and a Senior Research Fellow for the Paragon Health Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Prior to that, Merkel served in the United States Senate for a decade, most recently as a Legislative Director. He served in President Trump’s first Administration as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the National Economic Council in the White House where had a wide-ranging portfolio that included Medicare, Medicaid, the commercial market, and drug pricing reform. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University.
Scott Centorino will serve as Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, focusing primarily on law and order, veterans’ affairs, and homelessness and housing. Centorino was previously Vice President of Policy and Programs at Do No Harm Medicine, Deputy Policy Director at the Foundation for Government Accountability, and Executive Director at Reformers Academy. Centorino also served for three years as Assistant Attorney General in the Louisiana Department of Justice and four years as an officer in the United States Army Reserve in the JAG Corps. He holds a B.A. in Politics from Washington and Lee University and a J.D. from Wake Forest University.
Wells King will serve as Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. King served as the senior policy advisor to Senator JD Vance and as an advisor to Senator Mike Lee on the Joint Economic Committee. He also worked as the founding research director of American Compass. Prior to his career in public policy, Wells was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. He holds an A.B. magna cum laude in History from Davidson College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
James Sherk will serve as Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. Formerly, Sherk served as the Director of the Center for American Freedom at the America First Policy Institute. He previously served as Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy on the White House Domestic Policy Council for four years in the first Trump Administration. During his time in the White House, Sherk was the key policy lead for approximately two dozen executive orders and presidential memoranda and served as a member of the President’s Council on Improving Federal Civic Architecture. Prior to his White House service, Sherk was a Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, where he was a nationally recognized expert on the civil service and labor policy. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Economics from Hillsdale College and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Rochester.
Eric Bledsoe will serve as Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, focusing primarily on education. Previously, Bledsoe was a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Government Accountability. Prior to his work at FGA, he was Senior Director of Civics at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, and an instructor at Florida State University. Bledsoe holds a B.A in English from The Catholic University of America and a Master of Arts in English from Florida State University.
Anthony R. Dolan will serve as Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. A Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist at 29, Dolan’s work on public corruption and organized crime with Attorney General William French Smith and his staff led to the Reagan administration’s 1982 crackdown on the American mafia. He did this while serving as Chief Speechwriter in the Reagan White House for eight years. Among the many prominent roles in his career, Dolan served as Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell, Special Advisor to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for six years where he prepared the Secretary of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff before every news briefing, and as a Special Assistant and Advisor on Planning during President Trump’s first term. A veteran of nine presidential campaigns and numerous state and local campaigns, he holds a B.A. from Yale University in Philosophy and History.
NYT Poll Shows The Nation Supports President Trump’s Immigration Agenda
Days before President Donald Trump is sworn into office, the New York Times has released polling showing majority support for deporting illegal immigrants.
The New York Times poll found that 87 percent of Americans support deporting illegal immigrants with criminal records, 63 percent of Americans support deporting illegal immigrants that arrived under Joe Biden, and 55 percent support deporting all illegal immigrants.
President Donald Trump has a popular vote mandate to secure this nation and will deliver on his promise to end the invasion of our nation by dangerous criminals.
The people have spoken…