FreedomWorks, once influential conservative group, blames Trump after announcing it’s shutting down: report

FreedomWorks, nan erstwhile influential blimpish group that helped spur nan beverage statement movement, is reportedly shutting its doors and blaming nan power of Donald Trump for its demise.

FreedomWorks President Adam Brandon told Politico successful an exclusive question and reply published Wednesday that nan group has dissolved, "effective immediately." Wednesday marked nan past time for nan organization’s astir 2 twelve unit members. 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to aggregate members, including Brandon, but nan outlet reported that FreedomWorks’ committee of board had voted unanimously to unopen down immediately. 

The group laid disconnected conscionable nether half of its unit past year, and its gross has plummeted by almost arsenic overmuch since 2022, according to nan report. 

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Adam Brandon, president of FreedomWorks, talks pinch Andrew Wilkow during an section of The Wilkow Majority connected SiriusXM Patriot astatine Quicken Loans Arena connected July 21, 2016, successful Cleveland, Ohio. (Ben Jackson/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

Brandon said nan ideological upheaval of nan Trump era yet led to FreedomWorks’ demise. He said Trump’s emergence created a rift betwixt libertarian-leaning conservatives and nan MAGA-style populism of Trump supporters. 

"A batch of our guidelines aged, and truthful nan caller activists that person travel successful [with] Trump, they thin to beryllium overmuch much populist," Brandon told nan outlet. "So, you look astatine nan guidelines that conscionable benignant of shifted." 

The shift, he said, was seen moreover successful FreedomWorks’ ain members, which divided into MAGA and "Never Trump factions." 

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This impacted nan group’s expertise to raise money, noting that donors are progressively asking: "What are you doing for Trump today?" Still, others complained that nan group was doing excessively overmuch to thief nan erstwhile president, putting Brandon successful an intolerable position. 

FreedomWorks Forum for Ohio's Republican Senate Candidates connected March 18, 2022 successful Columbus, Ohio. The forum was attended by candidates Matt Dolan, Mike Gibbons, Josh Mandel, Jane Timken and JD Vance. (Andrew Spear/Getty Images)

"[W]e’re not for aliases against Trump," said FreedomWorks’ committee personnel Paul Beckner, according to Politico. "We’re for Trump if he’s doing what we work together with, and we’re against if he’s not. And I deliberation we’ve seen an erosion of blimpish donors." 

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Brandon said he has his eyes group connected launching a caller libertarian-leaning statement focused connected politically independent millennials and Gen Z’ers.