May Mailman
As Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Policy Strategist, Mailman helps direct and manage policy development, while serving as an advisor to the President on a range of policy issues. This can include policies impacting abortion, maternal health, in vitro fertilization (IVF), and other areas of reproductive health care.
Top Red Flags
- Advocated against Ohio’s ballot initiative to enshrine reproductive freedom in the state’s constitution.
- Defended Project 2025 and worked for an organization that served on Project 2025’s advisory board.
- Claimed that the Supreme Court gave women “more rights” when it overturned Roe v. Wade.
Statements
- Mailman staunchly opposed Ohio’s ballot initiative to enshrine reproductive freedom in the state’s constitution.
- Mailman believes that the Supreme Court gave women “more rights” when it overturned Roe v. Wade.
- Mailman asserted that Project 2025 “focuses on protecting women and girls in endless ways” when in reality it decimates access to abortion.
- Mailman celebrated Trump’s Executive Order targeting transgender and nonbinary individuals and routinely makes false and inflammatory comments about transgender athletes.
Publications
- Mailman authored, “Proponents Of Ohio’s Abortion Amendment Don’t Want You To Know How Barbaric It Is” in which she spread misinformation about abortion and claimed that Ohio’s reproductive freedom amendment would “exacerbate suffering.”
- Mailman wrote an Op-Ed published by Fox News titled “The good, the bad, and the head-scratching in the SCOTUS transgender case” in which she used stigmatizing language about gender-affirming care while analyzing oral arguments in the U.S. v. Skrmetti case.
Extremist Connections
- Mailman served as Director for the Law Center of the Independent Women’s Forum, an organizational member of Project 2025’s advisory board.
- Mailman served as Treasurer for the RBG PAC, which claimed Trump’s views on abortion were in alignment with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
- Mailman served as an advisor to Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections, an organization founded after the 2020 election to challenge efforts to expand voting access.
