Taylor Anthony Budowich (born November 3,1990) is an American political consultant who served as the White House deputy chief of staff for communications and personnel from January to September 2025.
Budowich served as a spokesperson for Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign. After Trump's loss in that year's presidential election,he advised political campaigns. In 2022,Budowich began working as a spokesperson for Save America,a political action committee in support of Trump,and was named as the executive director of MAGA Inc.,a political action committee with the same goal,that year. In August 2024,he directly served within Trump's 2024 presidential campaign. In November,Trump named Budowich as his deputy chief of staff for communications and personnel. In September 2025,he resigned to work for the private sector.
By 2011,Budowich had interned for representative Doris Matsui and Sacramento mayor Heather Fargo. After returning to Sacramento,he contacted Sal Russo,a Republican political consultant. Budowich joined Russo's organization,Tea Party Express,established to support the Tea Party movement,that year.[3] By August 2012,he represented Tea Party Express as a spokesperson.[4] Budowich had become the organization's communications director by December 2013[5] and its executive director by June 2014.[6] From 2012 to 2016,he handled Tea Party Express's response to president Barack Obama's State of the Union addresses. Budowich led the organization's national bus tours and organized rallies in support of amenable senators,including Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz,and representatives,including Ted Yoho and Ron DeSantis.[7]
Budowich served as Trump's spokesperson through Save America.[17] With Donald Trump Jr.,he founded a news aggregation app.[18] In September 2022,Trump allies—supported by the then-former president—announced a political action committee,MAGA Inc.,and named Budowich as its executive director.[19] After Trump announced a presidential campaign for the 2024 election in November 2022,Budowich was not retained as Trump's spokesman.[20] His work with MAGA Inc. legally barred him from interacting with Trump.[21] In June 2023,one day before Trump was criminally charged in the classified documents case,Budowich appeared before the federal grand jury that indicted Trump.[22] The following year,he wrote a memo viewing Pennsylvania as a critical state for the Trump campaign and stated that MAGA Inc. would use its resources to divert African American and Hispanic and Latino American voters.[23] Budowich's work focused on advertising in Pennsylvania,Georgia,Nevada,and Arizona.[24] In August,he co-founded an effort for the Trump campaign to reach young men.[25] That month,Budowich left MAGA Inc. to work for Trump's campaign.[26]
White House Deputy Chief of Staff (January–September 2025)
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