Donald Trump will be back in Washington D.C this week for the first time since he left office to be part of the “America First Agenda Summit.”
Former Trump administration officials and allies gathered in Washington to prepare for the day. The summit was organized by the America First Policy Institute, which has been nicknamed the “White House in waiting.”
A group of top Trump advisers and Cabinet officials are putting together a policy agenda for the next Republican president. Trump will be delivering a speech on the second day of the two-day America First Agenda Summit.
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Trump’s return to Washington is coming amid the January 6 Committee hearings, which are investigating the 2021 attack on the Capitol and the role that the former president played in it.
The 76-year-old is teasing a potential presidential run for 2024. He will be at the Marriott Marquis, where he will be giving the keynote speech at the summit. His speech is set for 3 p.m. ET.
You can watch it live on YouTube here.
Mark Lotter, the communications officer of the America First Policy Institute, told CNN that Trump is “still the leader of the America First movement”
“He is the biggest name. He’s the visionary behind many of the policies that got him elected to the White House,” Lotter said. “And when you look at what’s going on in America right now, so many people are clamoring for that kind of policy leadership back. They want cheap gas, growing paychecks, soaring stock markets and not what we have right now.”
The group organizing the summit is headed by Brooke Rollins, Trump’s former White House domestic policy adviser. It includes former top economic adviser Larry Kudlow, former national security adviser Robert O’Brien, top aide Kellyanne Conway, and former Energy Secretary Rick Perry.
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Perry, the former Energy secretary, said the next Republican administration will not be “genuflecting at the altar of the religion of environmentalism.”