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Bondi is a chair at America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank founded by former Trump staff members, leading its legal arm.

Brian Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a center-right think tank, also told The Post that eliminating a quarter of all federal employees would reduce federal spending by 1 percent at most.

Jess Sargeant, who had worked for think tank Labour Together, became the deputy director in the Cabinet Office's Propriety and Constitution Group.

When she resigned in 2019, she did so on good terms with Trump — unlike many appointees — and later became the chair of the America First Policy Institute, a Trump-connected policy think tank.

During the campaign, Trump denied any connection to the document, which was released last year by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, but its authors have extensive ties to his former administration.