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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