Take a look at the founding of Brookings. Frederic A. Delano was one of the incorporators. Financed by the foundations from the get go. Brookings was a tycoon and the right hand man of Baruch on the War Industries Board during WWI. Brookings merged it with the Institute for Government Research and the Institute of Economics in 1927. IGR’s first project had been to push for a Federal budget, in which it was successful.
Hoover still produces a report, Setting National Priorities, which analyzes the President’s Budget.
Look all over the web and you’ll find people lamenting that Brookings was once “liberal” and now it’s increasingly “conservative”, which is laughable.
Brookings was and is yet another front for new world order of international banking whose original and current goal is passing commands from new world order to US politicians.
But the same thing could be said of National Review, for example, or similar mag/rag.