Think Tank Quickies (#509)

• Project 2025 leader back in the fold.
• Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI), the GOP think tank stocked with former staffers and allies of Trump, had steep drop in revenue in 2023.
  
• Trump gives speech at AFPI gala.
• In recent days, Trump has tapped nearly a half-dozen Project 2025 authors and contributors for roles in his administration. 
• Pam Bondi, who Trump picked for his Attorney General, was chairwoman of AFPI.
  
• The Hudson Institute announced that Palantir CTO and EVP Shyam Sankar will join its board of trustees. 
• The prospect of a new foreign policy has attracted some relatively newer think tanks to Mar-a-Lago.
• Counselor to the Ukrainian Embassy Kateryna Smagliy and senior adviser to the German Marshall Fund Heather Conley traveled to Kentucky to make the case for Ukraine aid.  Ukrainian officials have traveled to Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, Minnesota, Ohio, and Iowa as part of a tour of the American heartland organized by GMF.
  
• Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) launches new tech and innovation institute.
• Ember: "A global energy think think tank and go-to organization for open-source data about the clean-energy transition."