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Project 2025 Disavowed By Trump I Have Nothing To Do With Them Forbes

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project 2025 disavowed by trump i have nothing to do with them forbes

President Donald Trump has changed his tune on the conservative policy plan Project 2025 after actively distancing himself from it for months during his reelection campaign. Trump announced on Thursday that he would be meeting with Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, “he of PROJECT 2025 Fame,” to decide which “Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political... “I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” The post marks a significant shift from the President’s past disavowals of the unpopular right-wing policy blueprint, which was created by conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation ahead of the 2024 election. “I have nothing to do with Project 2025.

I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it, purposely. I’m not going to read it,” Trump said in a debate last year with former Vice President Kamala Harris. Despite Trump’s repeated insistence that he didn’t know anything about Project 2025, however, he had close ties with a number of its authors, several of whom have served in his Administrations—including Vought. And since he returned to the White House in January his second Administration has taken steps to implement a number of the proposals detailed in the over 900-page document. Project 2025 provides a roadmap for “the next conservative President” to downsize the federal government and fundamentally change how it works, including the tax system, immigration enforcement, social welfare programs and energy policy, particularly...

It also wades deeply into the culture war that has been dividing the country. Project 2025 calls for abolishing the teaching of “‘critical race theory’ and ‘gender ideology'” in public schools, and “deleting” terms such as “diversity, equity and inclusion,” “gender equity,” and “reproductive health” from “every federal... Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, has sought to tie Donald Trump to the 887-page book, which was written in part by the former president’s aides. Harris and Democrats refer to the plan as “Trump’s Project 2025 agenda,” and cite it as evidence (not always accurately) of what Trump will do as president, particularly on hot-button issues such as Social... For his part, Trump has claimed he knows nothing about the plan, and his campaign said that Project 2025 “should not be associated with the campaign.” Here, we take a look at the plan: what’s in it, who wrote it and what the candidates have said about it.

Trump has said he has not read the 922-page playbook, and does not plan to. During Tuesday evening's consequential ABC News presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris criticized former President Donald Trump for what she says is his involvement in Project 2025, a 922-page playbook of controversial policy proposals... Trump denied involvement in Project 2025, saying he had "nothing to do with it" and that he has not read it, despite the playbook being authored by dozens of former members of his administration,... Speaking at a Heritage event in April 2022, Trump said: “This is a great group and they’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do... when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America." In the debate, Trump said, “I have nothing to do as she knows better than anyone, I have nothing to do with Project 2025.

That is out there. I have not read it. I don't want to read it, purposely. I'm not going to read it," he said. He attributed Project 2025 to a "group of people that got together." 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] Two weeks into office, President Trump is enacting policies outlined in the conservative policy agenda Project 2025, from which he had distanced himself on the campaign trail. On the campaign trail, Donald Trump swore he had nothing to do with the conservative policy agenda known as Project 2025. He even called the proposals absolutely ridiculous.

Just two weeks in office, he's enacting a whole bunch of the policies outlined in their 900-page playbook. NPR White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez has been looking at where the policies align and where they do not. So, Franco, in case people forgot, remind us what Project 2025 is. FRANCO ORDOÑEZ, BYLINE: Yeah, A. Project 2025 is a plan, pulled together by a number of conservative groups and headed by the think tank The Heritage Foundation. It had some pretty extreme proposals.

And during the campaign, it really kind of turned into this flashpoint with Democrats zeroing in on some of those extreme measures, and - which went viral, as well. And all the hubbub really led Trump to kind of disavow the whole thing. MARTÍNEZ: Now, many of the policies though, are popping up in Trump's early nominations and executive actions, so tell us more about the overlap you're seeing. ORDOÑEZ: Yeah. The overlap is in personnel as well as policy. Many former Trump officials were involved with it and are getting into office again.

Russ Vought, for example, was one of the key authors of Project 2025. He was also Trump's budget director in the first administration, and he's been tapped to return in the same job as director of the Office of Management and Budget. And while he's not yet confirmed, Vought has already played a key role in some of the president's biggest directives that are creating a lot of confusion, such as the order to pause federal... Of course, that order was rescinded, but the idea came from Project 2025. Also part of Project 2025 was the proposal to end birthright citizenship, as well as diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Project 2025 also offers detailed plans to reshape the federal workforce, including instituting a firing - hiring freeze and reclassifying workers.

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