ICYMI: CfG President McIntosh Tells Fox News Cass is a ‘Paid-Puppet’

Will Mitola  |   April 1, 2025
“So American Compass opposes the Trump tax cuts, and now Elon Musk’s work to cut federal government waste, it’s almost like he’s just a paid-puppet of the left – oh wait, he is.” – David McIntosh, President, Club for Growth

 

Washington, D.C. – In case you missed it, Club for Growth President David McIntosh ripped Oren Cass and American Compass for their efforts to halt President Trump’s agenda in an interview with Fox News. Cass, a former Mitt Romney staffer who is bankrolled by two prominent socialist think tanks, has adamantly opposed President Trump’s tax cuts and DOGE’s efforts to eliminate waste from the federal government. Andrew Mark Miller covered the latest developments.

 

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A well-known economist who was believed to be trying to influence the Trump administration’s economic policies in the lead-up to the inauguration is facing criticism for his opposition to President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) efforts in line with the resistance from some of his group’s top donors.

“Elon Musk is not actually a popular person, and the frame of politics that the DOGE crew is pushing is not an effective brand of politics,” American Compass founder and chief economist Oren Cass told Politico in February.

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Fox News Digital previously reported on Cass positioning himself as an ally of the Trump administration and that a significant chunk of American Compass’ funding comes from a handful of foundations tied to liberal causes, including almost $2 million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Omidyar Network, which is led by a founder described as “notable for funding liberal-in-conservative clothing groups that target former president Donald Trump and his supporters.”

The Hewlett Foundation gave nearly $2 million, 44.1% of total funding, to American Compass from 2020-2023, including a startup grant, while Pierre Omidyar, of the Omidyar Network, gave $550,000, 11.3% of total funding, from 2020-2023.

Both the Hewlett Foundation and Omidyar Network have resisted the Trump administration.

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Along with his criticism of DOGE, Cass has been a vocal opponent of another one of the Trump administration’s top priorities, tax cuts.

Despite Cass offering some praise of Trump, he has been a longtime critic of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, calling them an “expensive failure” and saying Trumpism is facing an “inevitable expiration” and adding in September 2020 that Trump is “building no intellectual foundation, no institutional infrastructure and no policy agenda.”

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David McIntosh, Club for Growth president, told Fox News Digital in a statement, “So American Compass opposes the Trump tax cuts, and now Elon Musk’s work to cut federal government waste, it’s almost like he’s just a paid-puppet of the left – oh wait, he is.”