Project 2025 backers will spend $1 million to pressure GOP senators to confirm Pete Hegseth
2 weeks, 3 days ago

Project 2025 backers will spend $1 million to pressure GOP senators to confirm Pete Hegseth

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said Thursday that his group will spend $1 million to pressure senators unwilling to back Pete Hegseth, whose nomination to lead the Pentagon has come into question due to his views on women serving in combat and reports about his personal behavior. Roberts' announcement that he will support Hegseth is the latest sign that Project 2025, which Trump disavowed amid Democratic criticism during his campaign, is newly ascendant as Trump returns to the White House. The Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts believes criticism is being driven “the establishment” Project 2025 includes proposals to reclassify thousands of federal workers so they could be fired and eliminate or curtail several government agencies. Roberts said groups like the Heritage Foundation and America First Policy Institute were "close collaborators on the Trump agenda."

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Trump disavowed Project 2025. Now he’s hiring its contributors for his administration
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Trump disavowed Project 2025. Now he’s hiring its contributors for his administration

LA Times  

President-elect Trump has nominated Russell Vought to head the Office of Management and Budget. He believes “woke” civil servants and “so-called expert authorities” wield illegitimate power to block conservative White House directives from deep within federal agencies, and wants Trump to “bend or break” that bureaucracy to his will, he wrote in the second chapter of the Project 2025 playbook. …

'Taking off the mask': Trump said to be 'charging ahead' with 'dangerous' agenda
3 weeks, 2 days ago

'Taking off the mask': Trump said to be 'charging ahead' with 'dangerous' agenda

Raw Story  

Despite distancing himself for months from the highly controversial Project 2025, President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet selections show his stance on the ‘right-wing manifesto’ giving Democrats worries is shifting. And that means Trump’s vision for America when he returns to the White House could soon include many of the plans spelled out in the 900-page policy blueprint known as Project 2025, …

After Trump’s Project 2025 denials, he is tapping its authors and influencers for key roles
4 weeks, 1 day ago

After Trump’s Project 2025 denials, he is tapping its authors and influencers for key roles

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — As a former and potentially future president, Donald Trump hailed what would become Project 2025 as a road map for “exactly what our movement will do” with another crack at the White House. Vought, the president-elect said, “knows exactly how to dismantle the Deep State” — Trump’s catch-all for federal bureaucracy — and would help “restore fiscal sanity.” …

'That's not true': CNN anchor presses Republicans who downplayed Project 2025 as a 'lie'
1 month ago

'That's not true': CNN anchor presses Republicans who downplayed Project 2025 as a 'lie'

Raw Story  

Whether the controversial Project 2025 will officially wind up on Donald Trump’s next administration’s agenda led to a confrontation between a CNN host and two Republicans who continued to defend it. The moment came Friday during CNN’s “NewsNight” with Abby Phillip when the host asked her guests’ thoughts on Trump’s selection of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought as the next …

Here are the 5 Project 2025 authors Trump has already nominated for his Cabinet
1 month ago

Here are the 5 Project 2025 authors Trump has already nominated for his Cabinet

Raw Story  

As a candidate, Donald Trump insisted he knew nothing about the far-right Heritage Foundation's authoritarian Project 2025 playbook. Other Project 2025 contributors taking key roles in the Trump administration include Michigan Republican Party chair Pete Hoekstra — who was tapped to be the next U.S. Notably, Trump transition co-chairman Howard Lutnick — who Trump selected to head the U.S. Department …

Trump taps key Project 2025 architect Russ Vought to head budget office
1 month ago

Trump taps key Project 2025 architect Russ Vought to head budget office

Hindustan Times  

* Trump taps key Project 2025 architect Russ Vought to head budget office Vought to help set budget priorities, roll back regulations * Vought was OMB chief during Trump's 2017-2021 term * Vought has played a major role in Project 2025 By Gram Slattery and Tim Reid Nov 22 - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Russ Vought, a key …

Trump’s cabinet is filling up with Project 2025 authors despite him saying he has ‘no idea’ what it is
1 month ago

Trump’s cabinet is filling up with Project 2025 authors despite him saying he has ‘no idea’ what it is

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Carr also wrote the chapter on the agency in Project 2025, which Trump has …

'Showing his hand': Trump reportedly caught 'lying to voters' about 'Project 2025 lackeys'
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1 month ago

'Showing his hand': Trump reportedly caught 'lying to voters' about 'Project 2025 lackeys'

Raw Story  

Donald Trump sought to distance himself from the controversial Project 2025 blueprint for remaking government during his re-election campaign, but he has already named at least four individuals associated with the plan to serve in his administration. “Donald Trump spent months on the campaign trail lying to voters about the clear ties between his campaign and the wildly unpopular Project …

Trump team vetting more Project 2025 authors for top administration jobs: report
1 month ago

Trump team vetting more Project 2025 authors for top administration jobs: report

Raw Story  

Donald Trump and his advisers tried to distance themselves during the campaign from the controversial Project 2024 blueprint, but several individuals who worked on the plan for overhauling the federal government have already found jobs in his incoming administration. Russ Vought, one of the plan's chief architects and the author of its "comprehensive policy guide for the next conservative U.S. …

'Tactical error': Group behind Project 2025 admits they failed to rebut 'bogeyman' attacks
1 month, 1 week ago

'Tactical error': Group behind Project 2025 admits they failed to rebut 'bogeyman' attacks

Raw Story  

The head of the Heritage Foundation said Monday that his group made a "tactical error" during the election cycle by not responding to left-wing attacks about Project 2025. Kevin Roberts, president of the organization, talked about President-elect Donald Trump's transition plan with Bloomberg Radio on Monday, and touting that the "forgotten ordinary American has won." He said his organization remains …

Project 2025 authors gloat over Trump win: 'What a joke – it was all lies'
1 month, 1 week ago

Project 2025 authors gloat over Trump win: 'What a joke – it was all lies'

Raw Story  

Staffers at the right-wing Heritage Foundation are gloating over their controversial Project 2025 plans for Donald Trump's next presidency. The former president won re-election Tuesday despite being saddled with the deeply unpopular blueprint for remaking the federal government, from which Trump's team tried to distance themselves during the campaign, but sources told NOTUS that Heritage group chats have been how …

Trump Allies Suddenly Feel Safe Touting Project 2025
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Trump Allies Suddenly Feel Safe Touting Project 2025

Huff Post  

President-elect Donald Trump spent months leading up to the 2024 election distancing himself from Project 2025, the extreme and wildly unpopular policy blueprint that GOP operatives compiled to guide a second Trump term. Bannon later held up a copy of Project 2025, titled “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” and Grace Chong, the CFO of his podcast, went on to …

Project 2025 is the Trump agenda, Republicans are gleefully declaring
Top News
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Project 2025 is the Trump agenda, Republicans are gleefully declaring

Raw Story  

Donald Trump and his presidential campaign have repeatedly denied any connection to Project 2025, a radical blueprint created by the far-right Heritage Foundation to entirely rebuild the executive branch of the federal government on a Christian nationalist foundation. Public opinion gives Project 2025 a single-digit approval rating, according to NBC News: "It was the least popular of all the subjects …

What is Project 2025? Everything we know about the ‘dystopian’ manifesto for Trump’s second term
1 month, 2 weeks ago

What is Project 2025? Everything we know about the ‘dystopian’ manifesto for Trump’s second term

The Independent  

A 900-page plan drawn up by former Donald Trump aides and endorsed by a powerful right-wing think tank has long been seen as a roadmap for the former president’s second administration. But I don’t know anything about it, I don’t want to know anything about it.” Project 2025’s core policy book Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise outlines major changes …

MAGA stars gloat they can 'finally' admit Project 2025 will be Trump's agenda - as Bannon names first targets
Top News
1 month, 2 weeks ago

MAGA stars gloat they can 'finally' admit Project 2025 will be Trump's agenda - as Bannon names first targets

Daily Mail  

America's top conservatives are gloating that 'Project 2025' will be enacted in the new Donald Trump era, despite the former president disavowing the agenda during the campaign. Conservatives like Steve Bannon are gloating that 'Project 2025' will be enacted in the new Donald Trump era, despite the former president having disavowed the agenda during the campaign 'Matt Walsh, I think, …

What is Project 2025 and does Trump support it?
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

What is Project 2025 and does Trump support it?

The Telegraph  

Kamala Harris, the US vice-president, has described the ultra-conservative instruction manual known as Project 2025 as an “assault on democracy”. Trump has eschewed the 922-page document, which called for the appointment of vetted Trump loyalists as civil servants, enabling them to enact sweeping tax cuts and other proposals. The Heritage Foundation, the think tank behind the project, says that it …

What is Project 2025? Everything we know about the ‘dystopian’ manifesto for Trump’s second term
Top News
1 month, 2 weeks ago

What is Project 2025? Everything we know about the ‘dystopian’ manifesto for Trump’s second term

The Independent  

A 900-page plan drawn up by former Donald Trump aides and endorsed by a powerful right-wing think tank has long been seens as giving the former president a roadmap for his second administration. House Democrats led by California Rep. Jared Huffman created a Stop Project 2025 Task Force to coordinate with members of Congress, pro-democracy and civil rights groups and …

Project 2025: A Persistent Force in the Presidential Election, But Not Without a Trump Connection
2 months ago

Project 2025: A Persistent Force in the Presidential Election, But Not Without a Trump Connection

India Today  

The article discusses the ongoing presence of Project 2025 in the 2024 presidential election, despite Trump's campaign distancing itself from the policy proposal. The Heritage Foundation's proposal to gut the federal workforce and dismantle federal agencies aligns closely with Trump's vision, highlighting the potential impact of Project 2025 on the Republican ticket. While Trump's campaign has actively rejected Project 2025, …

The Many Links Between Project 2025 and Trump’s World
2 months ago

The Many Links Between Project 2025 and Trump’s World

New York Times  

The Many Links Between Project 2025 and Trump’s World Former president Donald J. Trump has repeatedly claimed that he had nothing to do with Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s conservative policy initiative to reshape the federal government. The Heritage Foundation’s president, Kevin D. Roberts, and a co-founder, Edwin J. Feulner, have each personally met with Mr. Trump. And the analysis …

How Project 2025 could doom Donald Trump with key voter group in battleground state of Pennsylvania
2 months ago

How Project 2025 could doom Donald Trump with key voter group in battleground state of Pennsylvania

Daily Mail  

On Sunday the Democratic Party flew a banner over the Philadelphia Eagles football game reading: 'Go Birds! Donald Trump may have tried to distance himself from Project 2025, a hardline conservative manifesto setting out a program for government written by his allies, but our new poll reveals just how damaging it could be for him in the critical swing state …

Project 2025's ex-leader slams 'violent rhetoric' of Heritage Foundation president
2 months, 1 week ago

Project 2025's ex-leader slams 'violent rhetoric' of Heritage Foundation president

Raw Story  

The former director of "Project 2025" is coming out against the "violent rhetoric" he's seeing from the Heritage Foundation's president. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Paul Dans is so concerned by what he's hearing from Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts that he's calling on Sen. J.D. Dans led Project 2025 until public outcry reportedly resulted in pressure from Donald …

'I'm advocating Christian nationalism': Josh Hawley's ties to Project 2025 exposed
2 months, 1 week ago

'I'm advocating Christian nationalism': Josh Hawley's ties to Project 2025 exposed

Raw Story  

Two staffers for Republican Sen. Josh Hawley are credited as contributors to the controversial conservative “presidential transition” plan, Project 2025, according to a Raw Story review of the 922-page document. The contributor credit states Ehrett’s affiliation with the “Office of Senator Josh Hawley.” Screen grab from Project 2025 document that says "John Ehrett, Office of Senator Josh Hawley" Two papers …

California House Democrats seek to tie Trump to conservatives’ controversial Project 2025
2 months, 4 weeks ago

California House Democrats seek to tie Trump to conservatives’ controversial Project 2025

LA Times  

Comedian and actor Kenan Thompson holds a giant copy of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 during the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 21 in Chicago. California House Democrats — seeking to connect former President Trump to the ultraconservative policy blueprint Project 2025 — held a public hearing Tuesday to lay out “its devastating impact on hardworking American taxpayers.” Rep. Jared …

‘A devastating self-own’: How Project 2025 became Trump’s worst nightmare
3 months ago

‘A devastating self-own’: How Project 2025 became Trump’s worst nightmare

The Independent  

These days, “Project 2025” is nothing but a dirty word to staffers on Donald Trump’s third bid for the presidency. “Trump himself proclaimed he was going to be a dictator on day one,” said Eisen, who quipped that Project 2025 had landed as a “devastating self-own” for the MAGA-aligned right. “Trump didn’t just threaten to be a dictator on day …

Could RFK Jr. be Trump’s Project 2025 liaison? Asked to ‘help pick’ government officials
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Could RFK Jr. be Trump’s Project 2025 liaison? Asked to ‘help pick’ government officials

Raw Story  

Just days after suspending his run for the White House and endorsing Republican nominee Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in an interview with Tucker Carlson he has been asked to join the ex-president's presidential transition team and "help pick" the administration officials in charge of running the government. Although Trump and his campaign have tried to distance themselves …

GOP said to be 'tearing their hair out' trying to contain 'radioactive' Project 2025
4 months, 1 week ago

GOP said to be 'tearing their hair out' trying to contain 'radioactive' Project 2025

Raw Story  

Staffers at the Heritage Foundation are reportedly feeling the heat for their work on Project 2025, the highly controversial right-wing blueprint for governance under a second Trump administration. The fear about Project 2025 became more acute in recent weeks when former President Donald Trump tried to completely distance himself from it, despite the fact that the 900-plus page policy document …

Ex-GOP lawmaker shreds Project 2025 masterminds for 'perversion' of Christian faith
4 months, 1 week ago

Ex-GOP lawmaker shreds Project 2025 masterminds for 'perversion' of Christian faith

Raw Story  

Former Rep. David Jolly tore into the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, and the organization's director Kevin Roberts, for their effort to reimpose Christian nationalism on the country. Roberts and his ilk fundamentally misunderstand the American idea, said Jolly, a longtime Trump skeptic, on MSNBC's "The ReidOut" Thursday evening — and just as important, they misunderstand the religion they claim to …

Experts warn "don't be fooled" by Trump's Project 2025 denials: His "fingerprints are all over it"
4 months, 1 week ago

Experts warn "don't be fooled" by Trump's Project 2025 denials: His "fingerprints are all over it"

Salon  

Former President Donald Trump has tried repeatedly to distance himself from Project 2025, claiming he has no idea who is behind the 922-page policy manifesto, while his campaign managers have said they "greatly welcomed" the news that its Trump-allied director has left his role. "He is running against the brand," Vought said of Trump's denials of any connection to Project …

Project 2025 Co-Author Says Donald Trump ‘Very Supportive Of What We Do’
4 months, 1 week ago

Project 2025 Co-Author Says Donald Trump ‘Very Supportive Of What We Do’

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A key author of a controversial blueprint for a second Donald Trump administration said he maintains close contact with Trump, despite the former president’s disavowals of his work. Russell Vought, who helped write the Project 2025 policy agenda that includes the mass firing of federal workers, said he’s kept close ties to Trump since serving as the …

Project 2025 leader says Trump ‘very supportive’ of their work and lays out plans if he returns to White House
4 months, 1 week ago

Project 2025 leader says Trump ‘very supportive’ of their work and lays out plans if he returns to White House

The Independent  

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Project 2025 architect: Trump has 'raised money for our organization, he’s blessed it'
4 months, 1 week ago

Project 2025 architect: Trump has 'raised money for our organization, he’s blessed it'

Raw Story  

Russell Vought, a former Trump administration official who is also one of the brains behind the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, was secretly recorded casting doubt on former President Donald Trump's claims that he wants nothing to do with the controversial initiative. As CNN reports, undercover left-wing activists filmed a meeting with Vought in which he said he was unconcerned by …

This Project 2025 goal is on a fast track despite Trump and Vance distancing themselves
4 months, 1 week ago

This Project 2025 goal is on a fast track despite Trump and Vance distancing themselves

Raw Story  

WASHINGTON — As the Trump-Vance ticket attempts to pivot toward the middle to try and convince independent voters they’re not as radical as portrayed, Donald Trump is doing all he can to distance himself from the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. “I will immediately reissue my 2020 Executive Order restoring the president's authority to remove rogue bureaucrats,” former President Donald Trump …

Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought talks Trump in secret video
4 months, 1 week ago

Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought talks Trump in secret video

CNN  

CNN — Last month, Russell Vought sat in a five-star Washington, DC, hotel suite, bowing his head in prayer with two men he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor. But in private, Vought said that those disavowals were merely “graduate-level politics.” Vought said his group, the Center for Renewing America, was secretly drafting hundreds of executive orders, regulations, …

Republicans tell Trump to focus on issues, not "crowd sizes." Project 2025 shows that will backfire
4 months, 1 week ago

Republicans tell Trump to focus on issues, not "crowd sizes." Project 2025 shows that will backfire

Salon  

Donald Trump beat Nikki Haley in the Republican primary by repeatedly calling her "birdbrain," and even driving home the insult by sending a birdcage and bird food to her hotel room. Fox News pundits like Sean Hannity and even Jesse Watters are imploring Trump to stop "talking about nationality or background" of his opponent and tell himself "it's not about …

Project 2025 Is Serving A Crucial Role In Trump’s Campaign.
4 months, 1 week ago

Project 2025 Is Serving A Crucial Role In Trump’s Campaign.

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Even in the chaos of his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump did a few things by the book. “They should have been preparing since the spring of this year.” Stier worked closely with Trump’s team in 2016, which he recalled as “an early, aggressive transition-planning process.” The failure to name an official transition team offers more evidence …

Trump took a private flight with Heritage Foundation leader Kevin Roberts despite saying he doesn’t know people behind Project 2025
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump took a private flight with Heritage Foundation leader Kevin Roberts despite saying he doesn’t know people behind Project 2025

The Independent  

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Project 2025’s new leader Kevin Roberts postpones his own book launch until after the election
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Project 2025’s new leader Kevin Roberts postpones his own book launch until after the election

Associated Press  

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. “In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon.” A Vance spokesperson has said the forward has nothing to do with Project 2025 and that the senator has no involvement and “plenty of disagreements with what they’re calling for.” The postponement of the book comes the day …

Project 2025 architect pushes book with JD Vance foreword until after election
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Project 2025 architect pushes book with JD Vance foreword until after election

Salon  

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, who penned the foreword for the group’s Project 2025, is pushing back his book release until after the election, in an attempt to cool negative chatter around the sweeping far-right policy playbook. The move comes as Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance, the author of the book’s foreword, attempts to distance himself and his running …

House Dems demand Heritage leader come clean on Project 2025's secret 180-day plan
4 months, 2 weeks ago

House Dems demand Heritage leader come clean on Project 2025's secret 180-day plan

Raw Story  

Dozens of House Democrats on Tuesday called on the president of the Heritage Foundation to disclose the details of Project 2025's so-called "Fourth Pillar," a section of the far-right agenda that has been kept under wraps as Republican nominee Donald Trump attempts—unconvincingly—to distance himself from the unpopular project. Project 2025's website provides a brief summary characterizing the Fourth Pillar as …

The man behind Project 2025’s most radical plans
4 months, 2 weeks ago

The man behind Project 2025’s most radical plans

Raw Story  

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Trump’s campaign co-managers, Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita, said in a statement that “reports of Project 2025’s demise would be greatly welcomed, and should serve as notice to anyone or any group trying to misrepresent their influence with President Trump and his campaign — it will not end well for you.” For Dans, …

A chief architect of Project 2025 is ready to shock Washington if Donald Trump wins a second term
4 months, 2 weeks ago

A chief architect of Project 2025 is ready to shock Washington if Donald Trump wins a second term

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Russell Vought sounds like a general marshaling troops for combat when he talks about taming a “woke and weaponized” federal government. He recently described political opposition as “enemy fire that’s coming over the target,” while urging allies to be “fearless at the point of attack” and calling his policy proposals “battle plans.” If former President Donald Trump wins …

Column: Reports of the death of Trump’s Project 2025 are greatly exaggerated
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Column: Reports of the death of Trump’s Project 2025 are greatly exaggerated

LA Times  

A person holds a fan advertising Project 2025 at the Iowa State Fair in 2023, when the 900-plus-page agenda was published. As usual, that was all lies, but when the right-wing coalition behind the blueprint, including scores of former Trump advisors, continued to promote it, Trump’s enforcers finally brought out the shiv — a no-holds-barred statement on Tuesday from senior …

Pete Buttigieg Spots How Trump Made History With 'Wildly Unpopular' Project 2025
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Pete Buttigieg Spots How Trump Made History With 'Wildly Unpopular' Project 2025

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg dropped one reason Project 2025, the far-right presidential transition plan, is “wildly unpopular” on Wednesday. “So much so that I’m pretty sure it is the first time in modern history that a presidential candidate has had to disavow his own policy framework,” Buttigieg told MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace. Buttigieg’s comments arrive one day …

Project 2025 director ends work on plan for Donald Trump presidency after continued attack from Democrats
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Project 2025 director ends work on plan for Donald Trump presidency after continued attack from Democrats

ABC  

The director of the "Project 2025" plan for a Donald Trump presidency has stepped down after Democrats made attacking it central to their election campaign and Trump repeatedly distanced himself from it. Paul Dans, who predicted Project 2025 would become "the engine room of the next administration" in a recent interview with the ABC's Four Corners, will leave the initiative …

Vance praises a key leader behind Project 2025, a conservative effort Trump has disavowed
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Vance praises a key leader behind Project 2025, a conservative effort Trump has disavowed

Associated Press  

Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Donald Trump’s running mate, praised the vision of Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts in the foreword of a forthcoming book that could conflict with the Trump campaign’s effort to distance itself from Heritage’s Project 2025 transition effort. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the foreword to Roberts’ forthcoming book “Dawn’s Early Light” on Tuesday, the …

Project 2025 shakes up leadership after criticism from Democrats and Trump, but says work goes on
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Project 2025 shakes up leadership after criticism from Democrats and Trump, but says work goes on

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The director of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 vision for a complete overhaul of the federal government stepped down Tuesday after blowback from Donald Trump’s campaign, which has tried to disavow the program created by many of the former president’s allies and former aides. At a rally in Michigan earlier this month, he said Project 2025 was …

Project 2025 director leaving post; Trump campaign welcomes ‘demise’ of right-wing playbook
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Project 2025 director leaving post; Trump campaign welcomes ‘demise’ of right-wing playbook

LA Times  

The director of Project 2025, a controversial conservative playbook for a second Trump presidency that has stoked intense debate on the national political stage, is stepping down. “Reports of Project 2025’s demise would be greatly welcomed and should serve as notice to anyone or any group trying to misrepresent their influence with President Trump and his campaign — it will …

Project 2025's director steps down, but the think tank says work will go on
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Project 2025's director steps down, but the think tank says work will go on

NPR  

Project 2025's director steps down, but the think tank says work will go on toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images The Heritage Foundation announced Tuesday that the top official behind Project 2025, the conservative think tank’s far-reaching plan to overhaul the U.S. government, is stepping down, but that the project’s remaining work would be led by its president. Susie Wiles and …

If you’re worried about Project 2025, blame this Coloradan
4 months, 4 weeks ago

If you’re worried about Project 2025, blame this Coloradan

Raw Story  

Project 2025 is one of the most pernicious plans for an American presidential administration ever conceived, not just for what it is but also for how it might be implemented. “We are in the process of the Second American revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be,” warned Kevin Roberts, president of Project 2025 creator The …

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