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President Trump's departure from the White House has left many conservative activists pondering what's next for the MAGA movement.
The answer is easy for the so-called D.C. "establishment," which hopes to leave Trump behind and return to "business as usual," according to Russ Vought, who served as Trump's Office of Management and Budget director.
Business as usual means "powerful interests have an outsized voice in setting the agenda, where policy objectives are routinely sterilized of all perceived political risk, and where elites keep their base of voters in the dark," Vought wrote in The Federalist
Vought has a different answer. He is launching the Center for American Restoration, a new think tank that aims to provide the intellectual firepower to propel the next phase of Trump's populist movement.
The Center for American Restoration will be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, researching issues like immigration reform, pro-life policies, pushing back against China, voter fraud, and Big Tech and social media censorship.
A sister organization, America Restoration Action, will be organized as a 501(c)(4) "social welfare" group, which allows for direct advocacy of policies and does not require disclosure of the names of donors to the IRS when filing annual Form 990 returns.
Vought's announcement snagged an endorsement from his former boss.
"Russell Vought did a fabulous job in my administration, and I have no doubt he will do a great job in continuing our quest to make America great again," Trump said in a launch announcement released by the organization.