Republican Colleagues Cheer Meadows’s Move to White House, Praise His Principled Prudence

Acting White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows arrives at the White House on March 28, 2020. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump first encountered former Rep. Mark Meadows’s firm devotion to his conservative convictions not long after being inaugurated, during a House Republican conference discussion on a proposed health care reform.

“Mark has a good history with the president. It actually started out with him speaking truth to power in a very difficult situation,” Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) told The Epoch Times on March 31.