President Donald Trump has named Alaskan Cale Clingenpeel as a special assistant to the president for economic policy, focusing primarily on trade, immigration, and labor.
Clingenpeel grew up in Anchorage and graduated from South Anchorage High School in 2012. He interned for Sen. Lisa Murkowski for a couple of years while he earned a bachelor’s degree in International economics from Georgetown University. He went on to complete a master’s degree in international economics from Johns Hopkins University.
In 2016 he was a delegate to the Alaska Republican Convention.
He was also the chief economist at a growth equity fund and was senior advisor to the chairman and economist for the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Trump’s first term.
Clingenpeel served on the 2024 Republican National Convention platform committee policy staff and as an external economic advisor to President Trump’s 2024 campaign. Clingenpeel was most recently the chief economist at the America First Policy Institute, where he wrote columns on issues relevant to the economy.
All well and good, BUT: Being involved with the “Princess” should make him suspect, that an obvious Washington DC resident for enough time to be more related to there than here in terms of closeness to the ambitions of the State. We shall see, but I’d keep an eye on his actions. But that’s just me .
Cheers-Johnson