Trump S Picks Have Strong Ties To Project 2025 Los Angeles Times

Bonisiwe Shabane

-Dec 28, 2025, 5:03 PM

trump s picks have strong ties to project 2025 los angeles times

Russell Vought, one of the chief architects of Project 2025 — a conservative blueprint for the next presidency — is no fan of the federal government that President-elect Donald Trump will soon lead. He believes “woke” civil servants and “so-called expert authorities” wield illegitimate power to block conservative White House directives from deep within federal agencies, and wants Trump to “bend or break” that bureaucracy to his... Vought is a vocal proponent of a plan known as Schedule F, under which Trump would fire thousands of career civil servants with extensive experience in their fields and replace them with his own... Both are core tenets of Project 2025. Throughout his campaign, Trump adamantly disavowed Project 2025, even though its policies overlapped with his and some of its authors worked in his first administration. He castigated anyone who suggested the blueprint, which polls showed was deeply unpopular among voters, represented his aims for the presidency.

But last week, the president-elect nominated Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget, which oversees the White House budget and its policy agenda across the federal government. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. During his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump and aides repeatedly dismissed the idea of any association between them and Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation effort to draft a transition plan and detailed policy blueprint... At least 140 members of the first Trump administration helped with the plan, and multiple former Trump Cabinet members wrote much of Project 2025’s 922-page Mandate for Leadership manifesto — including top Trump adviser... Now that Trump and Team MAGA are headed back to the White House, they clearly aren’t keeping their distance anymore. Trump has named several Project 2025 authors and contributors to his White House Cabinet, and despite the fact that Trump transition co-chair Howard Lutnick vowed in September that “I won’t take a list from...

Below is an updating list of everyone with ties to Project 2025 who is currently set to serve in the second Trump administration. Trump has named Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, as the next FCC chair. Carr authored the FCC chapter of Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership, which argues the agency should prioritize “reining in Big Tech, promoting national security, unleashing economic prosperity, and ensuring FCC accountability and good governance.”... It also calls for adopting a more hawkish FCC approach to foreign adversaries, such as China, like banning TikTok on national-security grounds. And Carr writes that the FCC should make it easier for Elon Musk’s Starlink and other space companies to launch more communication satellites. Pete Hoekstra is former representative and current Michigan Republican Party chairman who served as U.S.

ambassador to the Netherlands during the first Trump administration. Trump has nominated him to be the next U.S. ambassador to Canada. Hoekstra is listed as a contributor to Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership. It’s not clear how he contributed, but the Department of Education chapter cites a critical report he authored in Congress on the Department. In 2011, Hoekstra was also named a visiting distinguished fellow with the Heritage Foundation where he focused on education reform.

Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 during his campaign. Now he’s tapped several people tied to the controversial manifesto to serve in his administration. Donald Trump listens while Russell Vought speaks during an executive order signing regarding federal regulations in the Roosevelt Room of the White House Oct. 9, 2019, in DC. When news first broke this summer about Project 2025, the conservative mandate for reshaping the federal government, then-candidate Donald Trump immediately distanced himself from the plan, calling some of it “ridiculous and abysmal.” Fast forward several months, and Trump, now the president-elect, has announced his intention to place several architects of the plan into top positions in his administration.

Project 2025 is a 900-page “presidential transition” plan that consists of a playbook for the first 180 days in office. A coalition of conservative groups organized by The Heritage Foundation, a Washington think tank, developed the plan to “rescue the country.” Some of its more controversial elements include elimination of government agencies, boosting the... Trump has nominated several Project 2025 contributors to his team. President-elect Donald Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 on the campaign trail but has since nominated several authors or contributors from the controversial conservative presidential wish list to his administration. Trump called the Project 2025 policy proposals -- which include restrictions on abortion pills, birth control pills and Medicare access, as well as eliminating a couple of federal agencies -- "extreme, seriously extreme" in... "I don't know anything about it.

I don't want to know anything about it," he previously said, despite having many connections to its authors and contributors. Democrats pounced on Trump for Project 2025 during the election season, calling it a warning of what is to come under a second Trump term. Whether Project 2025 was President Trump’s plan for his second presidency was a big point of contention during the presidential campaign. His opponents in the race — first President Biden and then Vice President Kamala Harris — aggressively tried to tie him to the Heritage Foundation’s unpopular conservative playbook, which was unveiled in 2023. Trump vociferously denied it was his plan, and the White House still does. Now, several months into Trump’s second term, what is clear is that he is working with incredible speed to implement an array of policies that align with those espoused by Project 2025’s conservative authors...

A tracking project claims Trump has already implemented more than 40% of Project 2025’s recommendations. One prominent community tracking project claims President Trump has already implemented more than 40% of Project 2025’s recommendations. On "LA Times Today": He said it wasn't his plan, but President Trump is closely following the Project 2025 playbook. Plus, California’s secretary of state tells us why she thinks a new voting bill is trying to silence millions of voters. She calls it “Jim Crow 2.0.” And, the movies making a splash at the Cannes Film Festival.

Trump S Picks Have Strong Ties To Project 2025 Los Angeles Times

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