Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Diana Furchtgott-Roth served as Trump’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the Department of Transportation (DOT), and authored the DOT chapter of Project 2025. A denier of human-caused climate change, Furchtgott-Roth has argued that “the Biden fuel economy regulations are predicted to have no meaningful effect on global temperature trends over the long term,” that fuel economy standards kill people, and that “green jobs are the most recent reappearance of a perennial bad idea.” She currently serves as the Heritage Foundation’s Director of the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment.

In the DOT chapter, Furchtgott-Roth states her opposition to Biden’s “anti-fossil fuel climate agenda” and calls for gutting fuel economy standards which “have no meaningful effect on global temperature trends” and which “force the auto industry to transition to … the production of EVs.” She also advocates for changes such as cutting the Highway Trust Fund, which provides funding for thousands of highway and public transportation projects each year. She also claims “there is little need for much of [DOT’s] grantmaking.”

Outside of Project 2025, Furchtgott-Roth has made many controversial statements: arguing that female secret service agents can’t protect the President as well as male agents, climate change is a natural phenomenon, and fuel economy standards kill people. In a Newsweek column, she stated that “green jobs are the most recent reappearance of a perennial bad idea—government regulation of certain industries, designed to anoint winners and losers in the marketplace,” she wrote.

Her nomination to DOT Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology was contentious due to her “views on the minimum wage (against), the gender pay gap (a myth), and unions (strong pass).” Her stance on labor includes advocating for privatizing air traffic control without any participation from unions. She has also written columns opposing raising the minimum wage and wrote a column complaining that she had to join a union as part of her teaching job at George Washington University. She opposes many protections for women in the economy and society in general, claiming in her book The Feminist Dilemma, that “In the name of broadening equality and freedom, feminists today are waging a campaign that would reduce both—for men and women… That is not choice. Rather, it is authoritarian social engineering masquerading as choice.” “

Today, Furchtgott-Roth serves as “president of Furchtgott International, an advisory services firm that frequently pushes pro-industry energy positions on behalf of an undisclosed “select group of clients.” She also served as a senior fellow and director of Economics21 at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.

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