University of Kwazulu-Natal

Trump Name Checks Project 2025 As He Threatens To Dismantle Agencies

Bonisiwe Shabane
-
trump name checks project 2025 as he threatens to dismantle agencies

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...

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...

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 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 (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] 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.

People Also Search

During The 2024 Presidential Campaign, Donald Trump Distanced Himself From

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 Proje...

A Version Of This Story Appeared In CNN’s What Matters

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 opportun...

Jill Colvin, Associated Press Jill Colvin, Associated Press NEW YORK

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, ...

Trump Announced On Thursday That He Would Be Meeting With

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, quie...

I Don’t Want To Read It, Purposely. I’m Not Going

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...