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how trump s directives echo project 2025 democratic underground

Eliminate Marxist indoctrination and divisive critical race theory programs and abolish newly established diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and staff. The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall abolish every DEI office. By Elena Shao, Karen Yourish and June Kim A slew of actions taken by President Trump during his first month in office bear the fingerprints of Project 2025, the right-wing blueprint for overhauling the federal government. During his campaign, Mr. Trump distanced himself from the plan, saying it was largely unfamiliar to him.

But The New York Times found more than 60 major moves that Mr. Trump and his administration have made in his first 23 days, including executive orders and agency memos, that align with proposals in the blueprint. President Donald Trump on the campaign trail last summer disavowed Project 2025, saying he knew nothing about the effort. But many of the conservative blueprint’s ideas have made their way into his early executive orders, signaling the sweeping impact the Heritage Foundation document has already had on the Trump administration’s policy making. A side-by-side review by POLITICO found dozens of cases where the president’s early executive actions have aligned with portions of the 922-page policy document, including some instances with nearly verbatim language lifted from the... Several of the ideas, such as energy policies expanding U.S.

oil and critical minerals production, are longtime conservative policy priorities that did not originate with Project 2025. But some of the more unconventional strategies outlined in the document, such as reclassifying federal employees to make them easier to fire and installing loyalists in senior government positions, have also shown up in... There have also been other Trump administration moves outside of his executive orders that appear to come directly from Project 2025, such as directing the Federal Communications Commission to investigate NPR and PBS for... We’ve broken down the executive order similarities in social issues, immigration, government staffing and other categories below. Project 2025 (also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project)[3] is an American political initiative published in April 2023 by the Heritage Foundation with the goal of reshaping the federal government by consolidating executive... president to implement those policies.[5][6]

The project's policy document Mandate for Leadership[7] calls for the replacement of federal civil service workers by people loyal to "the next conservative president" and for taking partisan control of the Department of Justice... Project 2025 is based on a controversial interpretation of unitary executive theory according to which the executive branch is under the president's complete control.[28][29] Analysts note that the approach would further reduce agency independence... PBS News Hour reporting has linked these ambitions to discussions of domestic military involvement, pointing to Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., as a potential precedent.[30][28] The project's proponents say it... toward autocracy.[33] Some legal experts say it would undermine the rule of law,[34] separation of powers,[6] separation of church and state,[33][35] and civil liberties.[6][34][36] Most of Project 2025's contributors worked in either Trump's first administration (2017−2021) or his campaign for the 2024 presidential election.[a] Several Trump campaign officials maintained contact with Project 2025, seeing its goals as aligned... The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank founded in 1973, has had significant influence in U.S.

public policy making. In 2019, it ranked among the most influential public policy organizations in the United States.[56][57] It coordinates with many conservative groups to build a network of allies.[23] He distanced himself on the campaign trail, but here's where Trump's policies align with the conservative playbook. He distanced himself on the campaign trail, but here's where Trump's policies align with the conservative playbook. He distanced himself on the campaign trail, but here's where Trump's policies align with the conservative playbook. Despite distancing himself from Project 2025 on the campaign trail, there have been substantial parallels between the initiative and President Donald Trump’s second administration.

There was a lot of conversation surrounding Project 2025 in the months leading up to the November election, largely due to its calls to significantly reduce and reshape the scope of the federal government. 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... In the first month of his second term, President Trump has reshaped the government with a flurry of executive orders. A recent analysis by Politico found that many of those actions have closely aligned with Project 2025, a conservative policy blueprint he once disavowed. William Brangham speaks with Politico White House reporter Megan Messerly for more. Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors.

In the first month of his second term, President Trump has reshaped the government with a flurry of executive orders. As William Brangham reports, many of them echo the language of a policy blueprint he once disavowed. During the heat of the presidential race, the 900-page Project 2025 became a rallying cry for Democrats and a focal point for their warnings about a second Trump term. It was published by the Conservative Heritage Foundation, and it outlined plans to reshape the federal government, expand presidential power and enact right leaning social policies. In polls, it proved widely unpopular with voters, and then candidate Trump distanced himself from it, calling parts of it ridiculous and abysmal.

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