Conservative astroturf organization FreedomWorks has laid off 40% of its staff Tuesday as the advocacy group struggles to find donors after a disappointing midterm performance, with 20 of the group’s 50 employees, including executive vice president Noah Wall, let go, Politico reports.
“It’s heartbreaking but we have to learn the lessons from what went wrong in 2022 and we can’t pretend that there weren’t systematic problems to miss that red wave,” FreedomWorks president Adam Brandon said. The cuts came mainly through the group’s Regulatory Action Center, which tried to bully legislators to cut regulations, and the social media outreach department saw the biggest cuts, with Brandon saying the group’s social media outreach was less effective because of new algorithms used by the media companies.