Rachel Cauley

Communications Director & Fellow
Contact

Rachel Cauley has spent over a decade working with grassroots, campaigns, and movement conservatives across the country. She has overseen press strategy, media relations, and issue advocacy for campaigns, organizations, members of Congress, and the White House.

Rachel most recently served as the Communications Director at the White House Office of Management and Budget under Director Russ Vought, where she managed the day-to-day operations of the communications team and led OMB’s overall strategy and execution on some of President Donald J. Trump’s highest-profile policies.

Rachel started her career working in the U.S. House for then-House Republican Conference Chair, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN). She also served as Communications Director to two primary challengers in the 2014 election cycle—Matt Bevin for U.S. Senate and Dave Brat for U.S. Congress. She was a vital team member responsible for launching Conservative Review, CRTV, and the Mark Levin TV show–now the Blaze, one of the fastest growing conservative news alternatives–where she was the Spokesman. Prior to working at the White House, Rachel did media relations and TV training for District Media Group.

An Indiana native and a graduate of Purdue University, Rachel currently lives in Washington D.C. You can follow her on Twitter at @rachelsemmel.

Filter posts:

Fiscal Update: Appropriations Process at Congress’ Summer Break

If leadership succeeds in combining annual spending caps and the debt limit in a single bill for the second year in a row, they can argue the precedent is the new normal.  Leadership would usurp even more authority from individual legislators, diminishing our republican form of government. 

Primer: Impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and the Left’s Regulatory Agenda on the US Auto Industry

While the Biden Administration presented the Inflation Reduction Act as a means of containing the record inflation destroying household incomes, the legislation was in truth a legislative vehicle for enacting large swaths of the radical Green New Deal.

Postmodern Christians and Their Nice Arrangements of Epithets

As two recent popular books show, progressive Christians are trading traditional rational argument for postmodern irrationality and rhetorical sleights of hand.