Conservative Action Project

"The Conservative Action Project (CAP) was founded in 2008 by many conservative leaders with former Attorney General Edwin Meese III serving as the Founding Chairman. CAP is currently chaired by Mr. Alfred S. Regnery and is designed to facilitate conservative leaders working together on behalf of common goals. Participants include the CEOs of over 100 organizations representing all major elements of the conservative movement-economic, social and national security." According to Bob McEwen, CNP Board Executive Director, who spoke at a Feb. 2020 session of the CNP Board and outlined the close working relationship between the network and the Trump administration, said that: "The Conservative Action Project is a division of CNP that meets every Wednesday morning for the purpose of seeing what needs to be done and acting immediately. And one of the things that they do, is that you see some folks that are not supportive of our cause, but they get the swamp to support them to a key position. And so the conservatives get together and highlight, send a message. We have a representative from the President every week. In fact, the President got tired of everybody coming to our meetings, so now we meet at the White House one week a month for the purpose of helping him in the goals. So when when legislation is stymied, or when something needs to be done, as you’re going to hear testimony here in just a few moments. That’s what we do.” Jim DeMint, during an Oct. 2018 session about the Conservative Action Project (CAP), a project of CNP, described in detail how the coalition works to drive an agenda in Congress and with the Trump administration: We've got an outside game, we've got an inside game, and it's the only way to win. But the bridge between what's going on inside of Congress and the administration, and what we're doing on the outside with all the political groups, the policy groups, the think tanks, the things we're doing all over the country. The bridge was the vision of Ed Meese and a lot of folks with the Council of National Policy, was what we call the the Conservative Action Project. It's the action part of what we do on the outside, but it's also the action part of what goes on on the inside. And every week we get together with the core group, of the CAP group, and we talk about what's going on, on the Hill. We talk about what's going on the outside. We try to develop a consensus."