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Whether it’s his plan or not, Trump’s policies so far closely align with Project 2025
Los Angeles Times ^ | May 9, 2025 3 AM PT | Kevin Rector

Posted on 05/09/2025 11:32:35 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

In his Project 2025 chapter on trade, economist Peter Navarro called on the next U.S. president to bring about a domestic manufacturing “renaissance” by adopting reciprocal tariffs against trading partners and taking a particularly hard line on China.

Promptly after being elected, President Trump appointed Navarro as his senior counselor for trade and manufacturing. Within months, he announced sweeping new tariffs largely in line with Navarro’s suggestions.

When the stock market plunged and economists warned of increasing inflation and a potential recession, several of Trump’s other advisors rushed to step in, drive space between him and Navarro and prod the president into hitting pause on much of the plan.

The episode, which sent shock waves through the global economy, illustrated a broader pattern in which the president has rushed to implement unconventional or extreme policies also outlined in Project 2025.

He has done so despite having insisted throughout his 2024 presidential campaign that he wanted nothing to do with the unpopular, ultraconservative playbook, and despite warnings from experts and other liberal critics that such policies were unwise, if not illegal.

During the campaign, Trump said he hadn’t read Project 2025, which was released by the conservative Heritage Foundation in 2023, and didn’t intend to. He also said that some of its recommendations were “absolutely ridiculous and abysmal,” and two of his top campaign advisors — including his current chief of staff, Susie Wiles — said that “Project 2025’s demise would...”

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 05/09/2025 11:32:35 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We never actually heard much about Project 2025 except from liberals scared to death.

What is so bad?

Yet, 1619 Project, GOOD....


2 posted on 05/09/2025 11:33:28 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sounds good to me.


3 posted on 05/09/2025 11:35:12 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’ll see your Project 2025 and raise you a New Green Deal.....


4 posted on 05/09/2025 11:35:54 AM PDT by God luvs America
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I live in the blue part of Ohio. One of the liberals around me was selling that talking point, I wasn’t buying.


5 posted on 05/09/2025 11:36:11 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’ve heard the Dems say “Project 2025” as if they were saying “Beetlejuice”, however I haven’t heard anything specific that they opposed and why.


6 posted on 05/09/2025 11:37:01 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

OH THE HUMANITY!!!


7 posted on 05/09/2025 11:39:24 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The LAT has been and will always be catorized as “Not even close to believable.”

If you read and believe the third-grade logic, suffer.

Always remember, journalism was long-ago abandoned by real journalists.


8 posted on 05/09/2025 11:41:19 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Heritage’s Project 2025 employed common sense. Trump ditto.

No surprise if they mirror each other.

Maybe Trump will genuflect, apologize, and RESIGN since he said he knew nothing about Project 2025. Would that make things all better, sweetheart ?


9 posted on 05/09/2025 11:45:09 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead". (We'll go ahead))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump should say people should bathe more than once a week just so they won’t.


10 posted on 05/09/2025 11:45:50 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And?


11 posted on 05/09/2025 11:46:08 AM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You know what Trump’s policies are even closer to? What Trump said his policies would be during the campaign. He did not hide the ball on what he planned on doing.


12 posted on 05/09/2025 11:53:46 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Did PDJT write Project 2025? Is he a member of Project 2025?

Did PDJT promise not to do anything that is a goal of Project 2025?


13 posted on 05/09/2025 11:53:49 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Who are these “experts”?


14 posted on 05/09/2025 12:01:48 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The actual document of 2025 is very long...
I read the overview, which is about a hundred pages...
It’s based upon strict constitutionalism, which I am 100% in agreement with


15 posted on 05/09/2025 12:04:16 PM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO!! The end.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What really irks The Left is that President Trump’s “policies” are very closely aligned with the American Founding.

Those EVIL Founding Fathers who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to establish a haven for freedom and liberty.

As Hussein infamously stated: “The Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf.”

The Founders were very familiar with tyranny.

President Trump nominates Judges who will return to limited government. In his second term, he is trying to limit the leviathan, which is why the democRATS are foaming at the mouth.


16 posted on 05/09/2025 12:10:06 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Here’s the title of a 2024 LA Times article from Mr. Rector:

“Queer people have shaped America. Why celebrating that fact protects kids”

Enough said.


17 posted on 05/09/2025 12:16:41 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96

Mr. Rectum Rector?


18 posted on 05/09/2025 12:21:34 PM PDT by jpp113
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If President Trump is following Project 2025, I voted for that.


19 posted on 05/09/2025 12:23:30 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: simpson96

Ah yes…. California where they just shot down a proposal to make sex trafficking a minor a felony.


20 posted on 05/09/2025 12:23:55 PM PDT by MrRelevant
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