Jill Lancelot
Senior Advisor/Co-Founder

For over two decades, Lancelot has been one of the most relentless and successful activists working on behalf of the American taxpayer to stop wasteful pork barrel spending and was touted as one of the top non-profit lobbyists on Capitol Hill by The Hill newspaper in March 2004. Since 1974, she has spearheaded dozens of victories that have saved American taxpayers tens of billions of dollars. Lancelot co-founded TCS in 1995 after 21 years at the National Taxpayers Union where she was Director of Congressional Affairs. She also created and directed the Subsidy Reform Project of that organization's research and education arm, the National Taxpayers Union Foundation. She has broad policy knowledge of subsidies in numerous areas including energy, water, forestry, transportation, agriculture and the military. Her successes include termination of the $1 billion Auburn Dam in Northern California, elimination of the $8 billion Clinch River Breeder Reactor program and the $3 billion Advanced Liquid Metal Reactor, stopping the $15,000 per square inch Westway highway in New York City and the prevention of a $20 billion bailout of the nuclear industry's Uranium Enrichment Program, and stopping numerous other pork barrel road and water projects. She is a frequent witness before Congress and appears regularly in the national media.