Posted on 05/09/2025 4:35:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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 and contributors, some of whom Trump has appointed to prominent administration posts.
Here are five areas where the alignment is evident:
Federal bureaucracy
In a Project 2025 chapter on the powers of the executive, Russell Vought — who served as director of the Office of Management and Budget during Trump’s first term — envisioned Trump moving quickly to “break the bureaucracy to the presidential will” by firing huge numbers of career federal employees, installing loyalists in positions of power and taking control of the federal purse strings from Congress.
Vought argued career federal employees with liberal leanings had taken too much power, and the next conservative president should seize that power back.
When Trump was elected, he appointed Vought to again head OMB, and Vought, along with the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, swiftly got to work attacking the federal bureaucracy.
The OMB froze trillions of dollars in federal funding allocated by Congress. Vought prompted mass government layoffs by ordering federal agencies to “focus on the maximum elimination of functions that...”
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unpopular conservative playbook,.
So unpopular we won 2024 in droves
Fake. Project 2025 was a document created by some Heritage foundation low life trying to hijack MAGA back into GOPe. Trump disavowed it completely.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. A fallacy.
Waaaaa Waaaaa we lost. Waaaaa
Yeah they say it like it’s a bad thing.
A conservative think tank came up with the same policiy recommendations that most conservatives already agree with and it’s a scandal?
Hmmm...
The liberal news media lies. Case in point.
Nope. Read the text of Project 2025 and see what Trump has actually done. Then get back to me. Short version: what Trump did was disavow a document that his peeps didn’t write. From a CONTENT perspective there are MANY similarities between what is in Project 2025 and Trump has done. See for instance ending the Department of Education.
Correct.
I’ll see your Project 2025 and raise you a New Green Deal...
BINGO.
Dead in the water well before the election.
Thank God.
Right Wing Nonsense.
The Heritage Foundation has been doing these agenda compendiums every four years since 1980’s Mandate for America. These are not Heritage products per se, except that Heritage acts as the project leader, compiler and editor. It goes out to the “conservative community,” broadly defined, and solicits submissions from myriad Rightworld thinktanks and advocacy shops. Heritage makes the final selections and knocks them into a form that works in a chapter format. It is then presented for consideration as a grand review of where the assorted conservative policy shops are on myriad issues at a given point in time.
Mandate for America was pretty good. Reagan didn’t adopt it wholesale any more than Trump has adopted Project 2025, but it’s there as a grab bag of ideas and projects that have gotten at least initial development and vetting. Its intended audience is not just the incoming administration (if Republicans win the election). It is also intended as a hopefully useful resource for incoming Members of Congress, especially first time candidates, some of whom are clueless wonders whose thinking on many issues would embarrass the bumper sticker writers.
The liberals have tried hard to demonize Project 2025. That is pure gaslighting. Their favorite tactic is to take a section, sometimes just a sentence or two, out of context and try to turn it into a hobgoblin. It’s pretty pathetic, but the left is incapable of having a serious discussion on the issues.
Uh...many here have talked of getting rid of the Dept of Ed for years.
If you think that’s bad, wait until Project 2026.
He ran extensively on all five issues.
Article written by the LA Times, liberal newpape
Look up Project 2025 on net and all lie lib newspapers are saying this. CBS, MSN, Newsweek, BBC, PBS, The Atlantic, Politico...
New lib propaganda.
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