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Checking In On Trump And The Project 2025 Agenda

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checking in on trump and the project 2025 agenda

Amanda Becker, The 19th Amanda Becker, The 19th Orion Rummler, The 19th Orion Rummler, The 19th Mariel Padilla, The 19th Mariel Padilla, The 19th This story was originally published by The 19th. In the months leading up to his election, President Donald Trump insisted that he had nothing to do with the far-right vision for his second administration known as Project 2025, a Christian-nationalist blueprint to... As the year draws to a close, a crowd-sourced effort, as well as trackers from advocacy organizations and labor unions, show that his administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in...

Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Remember Project 2025, the deeply unpopular far-right governing plan that Donald Trump spent the entire 2024 election pretending to know nothing about? Well, the president is bear-hugging it: On October 2, as the government shutdown entered its second day, Trump posted on Truth Social that he would be meeting with Office of Management and Budget director... I have no idea who is behind it” — even though the playbook was written by more than 140 alumni of his first administration. In any case, Trump and his allies repeatedly cast people’s concerns around the plan’s authoritarian streak as hysterical. The media and serious political operators bought into his supposed “disavowal” of the playbook, too.

That public-relations spin was clearly b.s. Many of Project 2025’s authors are now members of the current administration — including Vought, FCC chair Brendan Carr, White House border czar Tom Homan, and CIA director John Ratcliffe. And in just nine months, Trump has already accomplished 48 percent of the policies outlined in the playbook, according to an analysis by the Project 2025 Tracker. You read that right! Trump is nearly halfway through establishing the governing plan that experts warned “would destroy the 250-year-old system of checks and balances upon which U.S. democracy has relied.” To break down just how far Project 2025 has come and what people can still do to stop it, I spoke with Michael Sozan, a senior fellow at the Center for...

Here’s what they said. The 900-page behemoth, titled Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, outlined policy proposals for major federal agencies. Its authors said Project 2025 would be a road map for the next conservative administration. But Sozan says that, in reality, “It is almost an authoritarian guidebook for a president to be able to exercise almost complete control over the government.” He adds, “It gives the president and his... As of October 9, the Trump administration has already completed 119 of Project 2025’s 318 stated objectives, according to the data analysis conducted by Cobb and the tracker’s co-creators. Cobb says that 66 of the plan’s other goals are currently in progress.

They fall into two categories: objectives where there has been some action, such as a draft proposal, that has yet to be implemented, as well as policies that have been blocked by the courts. This means that about 48 percent of Project 2025 has been completed. Updated on: April 29, 2025 / 10:09 AM EDT / CBS News Washington — President Trump repeatedly distanced himself from Project 2025 on the campaign trail, saying he had "nothing to do with" the initiative spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, had not read it and didn't... But as the president marked 100 days in the White House, many of the plans he has rolled out since the start of his second term closely align with those in the pages of... Overseen by the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 was an initiative that was designed to provide a roadmap for the next Republican president, now Mr.

Trump. On the campaign trail, the president called some of its proposals "abysmal" and said he knew nothing about it, though CBS News' analysis showed many of its proposals were similar to his own. The authors of some of the policy guide's chapters served in his first administration and have returned for the second. Russ Vought is leading the Office of Management and Budget, and John Ratcliffe is in place as CIA director, while Peter Navarro, who was a top trade adviser to Mr. Trump in his first administration, returned for a second stint in the White House. The swath of executive orders and memoranda he’s implemented align with some 115 of the right-wing blueprint’s 317 goals, an online tracker finds

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We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it. Nearly half of the initiatives laid out in Project 2025 — which is considered by many to be a blueprint for the second Trump administration — have already been implemented by the president, a... A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. They’re questions that could be asked of any number of President Donald Trump’s social media posts: Did he just not understand that thing that he said earlier?

The answer could be some combination of all three, especially in the case of Thursday’s post, and the “unprecedented opportunity” Trump says he now has to hack away at federal agencies during the government... It has to do with the man widely seen as the architect of the shutdown: Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, or as Trump described Vought in the post, “he of PROJECT... <iframe width="100%" height="124" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://player.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/05/09/trump-america-first-project-2025-heritage-foundation"></iframe> The vast majority of Trump’s executive orders have come from The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, and the so-called "America First" plan. How the Trump administration is turning Project 2025 and the so-called 'America First' agenda into reality. Tami Gouveia, Paul Farmer professor of practice at Boston University School of Social Work.

Director of the Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health, also at BU. At the center she leads the Beyond 2025 Action Hub, which is a searchable database based on two major policy proposals — Project 2025 and the America First Agenda. MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: In April of 2023, about five months after Donald Trump announced he was running in the 2024 presidential election, the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation released a roadmap of how they... That roadmap is called Project 2025 and it's 922 pages long. Throughout the 2024 campaign, Trump denied having any involvement in Project 2025. In fact, he said he didn't even know what it was.

Here's Trump at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan on July 20th, 2024. DONALD TRUMP: Like some on the right, severe right, came up with this Project 25, and I don't even know, some of them, I know who they are, but they're very conservative. During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 – a policy manual for “the next conservative President” that was produced by the Heritage Foundation and written by veterans of the... Trump claimed he knew “nothing about Project 2025” and had “no idea who is behind it,” despite evidence to the contrary, while Democrats portrayed the document as “Trump’s Project 2025.” Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris ran an ad campaign tying Trump to Project 2025 and created the website TrumpsProject2025.com. At the Democratic National Convention, multiple speakers warned about the project’s proposals (not always accurately), including speakers who used an oversize copy of the book as a stage prop.

Democrats focused on specific Project 2025 proposals – including some, such as closing the Department of Education, that Trump did support and has acted on since returning to office, and others, that he didn’t... Since taking office, Trump has been actively implementing or trying to implement many of Project 2025’s recommendations through directives, executive orders, his proposed fiscal year 2026 budget and major pieces of legislation, notably the... It is a 900-page policy "wish list", a set of proposals that would expand presidential power and impose an ultra-conservative social vision. During his campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly disavowed Project 2025, after a backlash over some of its more radical ideas. But he has nominated several of its authors to fill key government positions, and many of his initial executive orders closely follow proposals outlined in the document. Here's your guide to Project 2025, which lays out one vision of how Trump might govern over the next four years.

Project 2025 is a product of the Heritage Foundation, one of Washington's most prominent right-wing think tanks. It first produced policy plans for future Republican administrations in 1981, when Ronald Reagan was about to take office. Amanda Becker, Orion Rummler, Mariel Padilla In the months leading up to his election, President Donald Trump insisted that he had nothing to do with the far-right vision for his second administration known as Project 2025, a Christian-nationalist blueprint to... As the year draws to a close, a crowd-sourced effort, as well as trackers from advocacy organizations and labor unions, show that his administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in... Project 2025 is rooted in injecting narrower interpretations of gender, sexuality and race in federal policy.

It calls for ending nearly all of the U.S. government’s efforts to achieve equity, including the collection of data that could be used to track such outcomes across the public and private sectors. It suggested eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs. It also recommended removing out of every rule and regulation terms like sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender equity and gender awareness, along with abortion, reproductive health and reproductive rights. The 19th thanks our sponsors. Become one.

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