Earlier in his career, Timmons was executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) and chief of staff to Virginia Governor George Allen.

[5] After Donald Trump's first election as president, Timmons and NAM were supportive of Trump's manufacturing agenda and worked closely with the White House to craft legislation on tax cuts, regulatory relief and manufacturing investment incentives.

Timmons urged NAM members to support the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and applauded a Trump executive order to speed up pipeline construction.

[6] NAM worked with its members to provide factory venues for Trump administration speeches and events.

[5] Timmons visited the White House in March 2017 and told Trump that manufacturers felt the country had returned to the right track.

He opposed protests calling for reopening the economy in April 2020, commenting on Facebook that such protestors were "IDIOTS.

That careless individual may have taken the virus more seriously if our national leaders had modeled appropriate behavior and done more to encourage Americans to follow those simple guidelines that would have kept our country safe.

[11] As the January 6 riot at the Capitol was taking place, Timmons was one of the first industry group leaders to condemn the action and call for Trump's removal.

And, incited by the president, they attacked Congress to stop its members from certifying the electoral votes.

[15] Timmons was closeted until 2004, when he was one of several Republican members of Congress and Capitol Hill staffers to be outed by Michael Rogers and John Aravosis.

However, a newly appointed judge revoked their parental rights, triggering a legal battle over their adoptive son.

[15] Their legal fight spurred their state delegate, Rip Sullivan, to introduce HB 1979, which replaced the terms "husband" and "wife" with "spouse" in Virginia law, allowed single people to use a gestational surrogate, clarified that only a carrier with a genetic link to the embryo can void a surrogacy contract, and eliminated the need for an adoption process after birth via surrogacy.