Prior to founding Free the People, he was the President of FreedomWorks[3] He also worked as Chief of Staff to U.S. Representative Dan Miller (R-FL), Senior Economist at the Republican National Committee.

[citation needed] Director of Federal Budget Policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Managing Editor of Market Process, an academic economics journal published by the Center for the Study of Market Processes at George Mason University.

[4][5] Kibbe's Free the People argued for the inclusion of third-party candidates in the 2016 presidential debates,[6] and he participated in Our America Initiative's 2016 Liberty Tour to promote this campaign.

[8] Kibbe originally joined the organization (previously known as Citizens for a Sound Economy) as a policy analyst in 1986.

The book reached best-seller lists including those of USA Today [citation needed] and The Washington Post.