Project 2025 masterminds probe NASA workers' comments on SpaceX CEO Elon Musk — and Trump
Raw StoryThe far-right think tank behind the controversial pro-Trump Project 2025 plan is filing a series of Freedom of Information Act requests to find out what employees at NASA said privately about former President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk, Reuters reported on Friday. This plan, spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, "is part of that organization's ongoing push to help Trump weed out uncooperative civil servants if he is reelected to the White House in November," an executives told Reuters. The Heritage Foundation also wants to determine "in the conservative group's view, whether agencies like NASA are thwarting progress for private companies like SpaceX, Musk's rocket and satellite venture" or whether they are improperly basing policy on "cultural and identity politics," according to the report. The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, which has become a key focal point in the election, advocates for Trump to replace the civil service with GOP loyalists, seize direct control of independent agencies like the Federal Communications Commission, enshrine Christian nationalism in law, and terminate or defund a broad range of federal programs.