Inside the White House with Paul Winfree
Paul Winfree, who spent last year as a top policy adviser to President Donald Trump, explains how the White House approached the ACA repeal fight and what it was like to work inside this administration.
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Show Notes
Paul Winfree spent a year as one of the Trump administration’s key policy leaders, with a bunch of big titles — he was Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, the Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council, and the Director of Budget Policy.
Now Paul’s back at the Heritage Foundation, and he caught up with POLITICO’s Dan Diamond to share his view into Washington’s policy battles and what he learned from working in the White House.
On the podcast, Paul explains why he took the job amid all the scrutiny of Trump (starts at the 1:26 mark), what it was like inside the administration during the ACA repeal-and-replace debate (5:30), what the White House should’ve done differently on health care (14:10), how Paul thinks about the ACA now (22:00), his thoughts on entitlement reforms (27:20) and what he learned from his time in the administration (30:40).
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