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Trump Disavowed Project 2025 During The Campaign Not Anymore

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Jill Colvin, Associated Press Jill Colvin, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump is openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign, as one of its architects works to use the government... In a post on his Truth Social site Thursday morning, Trump announced he would be meeting with his budget chief, "Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat... The comments represented a dramatic about-face for Trump, who spent much of last year denouncing Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation's massive proposed overhaul of the federal government, which was drafted by many of his... READ MORE: Trump threatens mass firings as shutdown continues with no signs of potential deal President-elect Donald Trump and his allies disavowed the conservative Project 2025 during the election, seeing the conservative transition plan and policy blueprint as a liability after Democrats used it to attack his campaign.

Some close to Trump even suggested those tied to the effort would be shut out of a potential administration. “They made themselves nuclear,” Howard Lutnick, the co-chair of Trump’s transition and his nominee to serve as Commerce Secretary, told CNBC in September. But with the campaign over, Trump’s transition team is turning to Project 2025 to help staff the next administration. Already, transition officials are taking suggestions for potential hires from the extensive personnel database created by Project 2025, a person familiar with the situation told NBC News. While Project 2025’s massive book of conservative policy recommendations received most of the attention from Democrats, a central part of the effort was putting together a database that officials had framed as a conservative... 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. This is round 2 of a series offering a nonpartisan counter to Project 2025, a conservative guideline to reforming government and policymaking during the first 180 days of a second Trump administration. The Fulcrum's cross partisan analysis of Project 2025 relies on unbiased critical thinking, reexamines outdated assumptions, and uses reason, scientific evidence and data in analyzing and critiquing Project 2025.

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump disavowed Project 2025. The post-election Donald Trump is humming a different tune. Perhaps the ditty is called, “No One Should Confuse Campaigning With Governing.” Or maybe Russ Vought’s words are more apt for a song title: The rapture of “Graduate-Level Politics.” Either way, Trump certainly likes... The most obvious sign that Trump is warming to Project 2025 is that several of his nominees for high-level administrative posts have direct ties to the conservative playbook. The author of Project 2025’s chapter on the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, has been tapped to lead that same agency. Tom Homan, Trump’s choice to direct his immigration effort as the nation’s “border czar,” is a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a contributor to Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise.”...

It is too early to tell if Carr, Homan and Ratcliffe will be confirmed, but if and when they are we’ll have a clearer idea if their comments from the past are actually implemented,... CrowdBlue is committed to helping emerging leaders run for elected office and those seeking to amplify candidates and causes. 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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