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Across the battleground states, voters were inundated with television ads and billboards that tried to cast Mr Trump as a driving force for Project 2025 In late November, as president-elect, Mr Trump picked Russell T
Vought, a key figure in Project 2025, to lead the Office of Management and BudgetHere is what to know about Project 2025, and who is behind itWhat is Project 2025?Project 2025 was spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation and like-minded conservative groups before Mr Trump officially entered the 2024 race
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Despite several of the plan’s authors having served in Mr Trump’s administration during his first term in the White House, he repeatedly disavowed it on the campaign trail, including when he debated Vice President Kamala Harris in September He falsely claimed that he knew nothing about it or the people involved in itBut not everyone is being welcomed aboard
Politico reported Thursday that the transition rejected a push for former Trump administration official Roger Severino, who wrote Project 2025’s chapter on the Department of Health and Human Services, to serve as deputy secretary of the agency, over concerns about the anti-abortion policies he laid out in the policy blueprint The document proposes slashing federal money for research and investment in renewable energy, and calls for the next president to stop the war on oil and natural gas Carbon-reduction goals would be replaced by efforts to increase energy production and energy securityThe paper sets out two competing visions on tariffs, and is divided on whether the next president should try to boost free trade or raise barriers to imports
But the economic advisers suggest that a second Trump administration should slash corporate and income taxes, abolish the Federal Reserve and even consider a return to gold-backed currencyThe party platform does not go as far as Project 2025 in these policy areas It instead talks of bringing down inflation and drilling for oil to reduce energy costs, but is thin on specific policy proposalsTrump himself has come out strongly in favour of raising tariffs on imported goods
“The EPA has been a breeding ground for expansion of the federal government’s influence and control across the economy,” writes Mandy M Gunasekara in Project 2025 Gunasekara was former chief of staff at the EPA Apparently, she had very little respect for the agency she helped oversee
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The book's publication was originally scheduled for September but was delayed until after the electionProject 2025 proposes that the entire federal bureaucracy, including independent agencies such as the Department of Justice, be placed under direct presidential control - a controversial idea known as unitary executive theoryIn practice, that would streamline decision-making, allowing the president to directly implement policies in a number of areasThe proposals also call for eliminating job protections for thousands of government employees, who could then be replaced by political appointees
The document labels the FBI a bloated, arrogant, increasingly lawless organization It calls for drastic overhauls of the agency and several others, as well as the complete elimination of the Department of EducationThe Republican party platform absorbed many - but not all - of these ideasIt includes a proposal to declassify government records, root out wrongdoers, and fire corrupt employees
The platform pledges to slash regulation and government spending, and explicitly calls for closing the Department of Education - an idea Trump has endorsedGiven these have been kept secret for so long, when I watched the nearly 11 hours of YouTube clips, I kept wondering when these were recorded They aren’t dated, but given Trump’s recent denial of knowledge of Project 2025 and the awkward distancing of many conservatives from this effort, it does raise the question of when this all started It also suggests a reason why Trump’s rebuffed the project
Trump has been desperately trying to duck questions about Project 2025 over the last few weeks, claiming “I know nothing about Project 2025” and “I have no idea who is behind it” But of course we’ve heard this kind of denial before Trump, for example, repeatedly made similar claims about E Jean Carroll, the woman a jury determined Trump had sexually assaulted and then defamed, saying “This woman… I don’t know her, I never met her, I have no idea who she is
The proposals also call for eliminating job protections for thousands of government employees, who could then be replaced by political appointees.The document labels the FBI a bloated, arrogant, increasingly lawless organization. It calls for drastic overhauls of the agency and several others, as well as the complete elimination of the Department of Education.The Republican party platform absorbed many - but not all - of these ideas.It includes a proposal to declassify government records, root out wrongdoers, and fire corrupt employees. The platform pledges to slash regulation and government spending, and explicitly calls for closing the Department of Education - an idea Trump has endorsed.Given these have been kept secret for so long, when I watched the nearly 11 hours of YouTube clips, I kept wondering when these were recorded. They aren’t dated, but given Trump’s recent denial of knowledge of Project 2025 and the awkward distancing of many conservatives from this effort, it does raise the question of when this all started. It also suggests a reason why Trump’s rebuffed the project.Trump has been desperately trying to duck questions about Project 2025 over the last few weeks, claiming “I know nothing about Project 2025” and “I have no idea who is behind it.” But of course we’ve heard this kind of denial before. Trump, for example, repeatedly made similar claims about E. Jean Carroll, the woman a jury determined Trump had sexually assaulted and then defamed, saying “This woman… I don’t know her, I never met her, I have no idea who she is.”
