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Trump disavowed Project 2025. Now he’s hiring its contributors for his administration
3 weeks, 4 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. …

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After Trump’s Project 2025 denials, he is tapping its authors and influencers for key roles
1 month 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.” …

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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 …

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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 …

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What Donald Trump's revenge agenda is hiding
1 month ago

What Donald Trump's revenge agenda is hiding

Salon  

During the campaign, you may recall Donald Trump waxing on interminably during "the weave" about the time he watched Elon Musk's picture-perfect spacecraft landings. Trump has said there's no price tag so there is already a tremendous amount of activity taking place in the private sector, with private prison and airplane businesses gearing up for major government contracts. We need …

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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. …

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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 …

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