According to the bio provided in the Mandate for Leadership, Devine is Senior Scholar at the Fund for American Studies in Washington, DC. Though The Fund for American Studies claims to be a non-partisan educational nonprofit, its board of trustees has affiliations with the Republican Party.
Devine served as Ronald Reagan’s civil service director during Reagan’s first term as president. He has promoted Reagan’s principles and policies for decades as a speaker and professor at the University of Maryland and Bellevue University. The Washington Post gave him the title of “Reagan’s Terrible Swift Sword of the Civil Service” for his work in the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. He cut 100,000 bureaucratic jobs and many salaries, and threatened the federal employee retirement system among other benefits.
