Ed Martin, who has been chosen by President-elect Donald J. Trump to be the chief of workers for his Workplace of Administration and Finances, is an anti-abortion activist who helped to arrange the “Stop the Steal” motion to overturn the 2020 election for Mr. Trump.
Mr. Martin, a longtime Republican operative in Missouri, served as chief of workers to former Gov. Matt Blunt of Missouri practically twenty years in the past and ran the state get together 10 years in the past. But it surely was his alignment with the anti-feminist activist Phyllis Schlafly in the previous couple of years of her life that amplified his nationwide profile as a conservative hard-liner.
In saying on Tuesday that he had chosen Mr. Martin to serve on the O.M.B., Mr. Trump famous that Mr. Martin had co-written a guide with Ms. Schlafly — printed just a few days after she died in September 2016 — which urged conservatives to vote for Mr. Trump.
Mr. Martin has continued to advertise his alignment with Ms. Schlafly by a company he runs bearing her title, Phyllis Schlafly Eagles.
Mr. Martin will work underneath Russell Vought, a detailed ally of Mr. Trump’s who ran O.M.B. for a part of his first administration. Mr. Trump additionally on Tuesday named Consultant Dan Bishop, a Republican who just lately misplaced the legal professional basic race in North Carolina, as deputy director of O.M.B.
The workplace is predicted to play a vital function throughout the Trump administration in serving to Mr. Trump to wield energy throughout federal businesses. Mr. Vought was one of many influential figures behind Challenge 2025, the blueprint that the Heritage Basis and different conservative teams have mapped for the Trump administration. Mr. Trump through the election distanced himself from the challenge however has since been plucking folks affiliated with it to serve underneath him.
Mr. Martin didn’t reply to speedy requests for remark.
Mr. Martin labored with Mr. Vought on the Republican Nationwide Committee’s new coverage platform, which pulled again among the get together’s hard-line language on abortion. But Mr. Martin has backed anti-abortion insurance policies that embody a nationwide ban, and has expressed openness to the concept that girls and docs must be prosecuted for abortion.
He additionally served as an organizer and financier within the “Stop the Steal” motion making an attempt to advertise efforts to overturn the 2020 election, based on the Congressional Committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol. In a speech outdoors the constructing a day earlier, Mr. Martin spoke of “die-hard true Americans,” and stated he would work till “we have a last breath and go home to the Lord because we will stop the steal.”
After that he helped usher a small right-wing group as soon as related to Ms. Schlafly, America’s Future, over to retired Gen. Michael T. Flynn, a significant promoter of election conspiracy theories. Mr. Flynn and different relations who work on the group have turned the group right into a backer of far-right conspiratorial ideology.
