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Three points you might be missing: 1. Project 2025 is a winner. 2. J.D. Vance will be the second-greatest vice president. 3. Jill Biden is running the country. First things first. Democrats have made Project 2025, a policy paper of recommendations put out every four years by the Heritage Foundation, into a bogeyman. But the meat of Project 2025 is a feast for President Donald Trump to devour upon taking office on Jan. 20. The think tank titled it “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise.” Most of it is a reflection of Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda, and indeed...

The husband of one of the two moderators in next week’s CBS News debate featuring vice presidential candidates J.D. Vance and Tim Walz appears to have made two donations of $250 apiece to the controversial Lincoln Project during the 2020 election. Records from the Federal Election Commission show that Ali “Yado” Yakub, the husband of Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan, contributed on July 2 and Sept. 26 of that year to the anti-Trump super-PAC.Screenshot of Ali ‘Yado’ Yakub’s donations in 2020 to the Lincoln Project / IMAGE: FEC.gov Voting records confirmed that the address listed was the residence of...

In 2024, the deep state that defeats Donald Trump might be his own.That, after all, is what Project 2025 was actually meant to be. The 900-page tome that Democrats hoist in front of the cameras is a festival of policy options, detailed down to the sub-agency level. But options for whom? Not for Trump himself. Even the most wonkish of presidents can only engage on a small fraction of what the executive branch does. And Donald Trump was not the most wonkish of presidents. When he said, during his debate with Kamala Harris, that he hadn’t read Project 2025 and...

Former President Donald Trump has flipped the script on Vice President Kamala Harris, taking her attacks on “Project 2025” and slapping the label on her own policies. Harris has repeatedly warned voters about “Trump’s Project 2025,” even though Trump disavowed the document, as numerous fact-checkers have confirmed. Tired of Harris’s repeated defiance of the truth, the Trump campaign has decided to use the term “Project 2025” to describe the policies that she would enact if she took office next year. In posts on social media, Trump listed the policies in “Kamala’s Project 2025”: Abolishing ICE Opening the border Defunding the...

Candidate Trump has disavowed the document (seriously or not). The former president may well lose the election. Nevertheless, the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is a serious outline for governance in a conservative administration and deserves to be considered as such. Among the Project’s contents is a chapter on the United States Education Department (ED). The chapter, written by Lindsey Burke of the Heritage Foundation with substantial input from seven other education-policy notables associated with the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, provides an agenda for conservative education reform that is one part bold, one part thorough, and one part cautious. It is...

RFK Jr. said during a Friday episode of the All In podcast that Trump will not implement the Project 2025 agenda and is instead more focused on his legacy. “If President Trump wins, that people are going to see a very different President Trump than they did in the first term. I think he’s changed as a person. And I’ve known him for, you know, 30 years,” Kennedy said. “But I think he is, he’s focused on his legacy.” Project 2025 was organized by Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, along with a group of former Trump White House...

More than 200 former aides to the three GOP presidential nominees who preceded former President Trump in 2016 — former President George W. Bush, former Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) — endorsed Vice President Harris on Monday. The majority of the group also endorsed President Biden in 2020. The group wrote a letter announcing the endorsement, USA Today first reported. The letter said it was a reunion of sorts from 2020, though it added that additional Bush alumni in particular were added to the group this cycle that are opposing Trump and backing Harris. “Of course,...

We were wondering if there would be another election-year letter by 51 Experts Who Hate Donald Trump, and lo and behold, we have not been disappointed. This year's letter is a doozy for how completely dumb it is. It's as if these supposedly well-connected politicos have been disconnected from reality for the last four years. For that reason alone, they should be widely mocked and ridiculed, and I'm here for it. This time around, the letter is written by people you've never heard of who used to work for people you have heard of. The political progeny of Mitt Romney...

After four days of long-winded speeches and non-stop Trump-bashing, the Democratic National Convention is finally over. The DNC saw speeches from the Clintons, Obamas, and, of course, Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz. It was the antics away from the main stage, however, which captivated conservatives across social media. While Edwin the Venezuelan alien was kept away from the convention, conservatives who managed to sneak into the DNC caused chaos among the Democratic attendees. One incognito activist was Matt Walsh, the conservative children’s author who’s risen to fame for his efforts against diversity, equity, and inclusion policies across...

When Emerald Medrano learned Joe Biden was dropping out of the 2024 presidential election and endorsing Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee, Medrano knew he had to speak now – as his favorite artist, Taylor Swift, would say. “I feel like us US Swifties should mass organize and help campaign for Kamala Harris and spread how horrendous Project 2025 would be to help get people’s butts down to the polls in November,” the 22-year-old posted to his 70,000 followers. He added a sobbing emoji. “Like if we don’t want democracy to end we really need to move and push blue...

At least 38 Democratic members of Congress signed a letter sent Monday to the president of the Heritage Foundation requesting he meet with lawmakers to discuss Project 2025 and release the undisclosed fourth pillar of the project called the “180-Day Playbook.” "Our offices are increasingly hearing from constituents worried about the impact of Project 2025 on the future of our nation," read the letter obtained exclusively by ABC News. "A growing number of Americans are concerned that Project 2025, which you describe as 'a second American revolution,' poses an unprecedented threat to our democracy,

Former President Donald Trump announced his intention to eliminate taxes on Social Security checks if he regains the White House. This announcement comes as part of a larger strategy outlined by the Republican National Committee (RNC) in their 2024 GOP Platform released earlier this month, titled “Make America Great Again!” This comprehensive platform is inspired by the enduring vision of former President Donald Trump. “The Republican National Committee (RNC) Platform Committee adopted President Donald J. Trump’s 2024 Republican Party Platform with overwhelming support– a pro-American agenda that stands in stark contrast to the record of weakness, failure, and dishonesty created...

With the news of Project 2025 effectively being laid to rest by its Heritage Foundation incubator, it is worth taking a look at how the only true MAGA operation in Washington, D.C., got demonized and neutered.The things you have to know, especially if you’re not in and around Washington, is: 1) THERE ARE ABOUT 10,000 LEFT-WING VERSIONS OF PROJECT 2025. In fact, virtually every think tank, political office, activist group, lobby group, advocacy organization, coalition, foundation, and charity has a Project 2025-style operation, which helps to pick and place proficient personnel and creates policy recommendations for their target audience.The idea...

Post See new posts Conversation Roger Sollenberger @SollenbergerRC NEWS: Project 2025 director Paul Dans has stepped down at Heritage Foundation after pressure from Trump campaign leadership, ongoing power rift over staffing control for potential second Trump admin, per internal email. This suggests Project 2025 will likely shut down. Story TK. DEVELOPING....................

Vice President Kamala Harris’ rapid response team shared a clip from a 3-year-old episode of The Federalist Radio Hour as a “stunning new leak” to claim J.D. Vance supports a conservative think tank’s project to staff the next administration. On Saturday, the Harris campaign published an interview between Vance with then-Federalist Publisher Ben Domenech and then-Editor Chris Bedford to allege the Republican senator from Ohio “completely endorses Project 2025.” The podcast, however, was taped and published before Vance had even launched his Senate candidacy and almost a year before the Heritage Foundation unveiled its project. “In a stunning new leak,”...

Americans are learning more about Kamala Harris, as Democrats rush to anoint the Vice President’s candidacy after throwing President Biden overboard. Ms. Harris wasted no time saying she’s going to run hard against a policy paper that Donald Trump has disavowed—the supposedly nefarious agenda known as Project 2025. But who’s afraid of a think-tank white paper? “I will do everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party—and unite our nation—to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda,” Ms. Harris tweeted shortly after President Biden dropped out. She’s picking up this ball from Mr. Biden, and her campaign...

Heritage Foundation leader has long received spiritual guidance from group and his policy goals align with its teachingsWhat is Project 2025 and what is Trump’s involvement?Kevin Roberts, the Heritage Foundation president and the architect of Project 2025, the conservative thinktank’s road map for a second Trump presidency, has close ties and receives regular spiritual guidance from an Opus Dei-led center in Washington DC, a hub of activity for the radical and secretive Catholic group.Roberts acknowledged in a speech last September that – for years – he has visited the Catholic Information Center, a K Street institution headed by an Opus...

A campaign official for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris acknowledged Wednesday that the vice president is deliberately misleading voters about Project 2025. CNN first reported the stunning admission as part of a fact-check article accusing Harris of making false claims about Project 2025 and former President Donald Trump’s stance on Social Security. CNN’s Daniel Dale revealed: A Harris campaign official said the campaign has ‘made a deliberate decision to brand all of Trump’s policies’ as ‘Project 2025,’ since they believe ‘it has stuck with voters.’ Since entering the presidential race Sunday, Harris and her campaign have repeatedly tried to link...

And guess what the DNC will champion in August? A major theme of the Republican National Convention was illegal immigration or the invasion of migrants across our nation’s southern border.Speaker after speaker elaborated on the migrant invasion while The New York Times midway into the convention ran an article stating these claims were exaggerated. RNC speakers were also careful to state that they supported legal immigration yet these statements were ignored as critics from the left accused the convention of being anti-immigration. Examples of the anti-immigration charge were common on the PBS show, ‘Democracy Now’ despite host Amy Goodman’s superficial...

In the first rally of her presidential campaign on Tuesday, Kamala Harris wrongly described parts of the conservative Project 2025 blueprint for a potential second Donald Trump presidency. At Harris’ Tuesday rally in Wisconsin, she criticized Trump and “his extreme Project 2025 agenda,” then said: “They intend to end the Affordable Care Act. And take us back, then, to a time when insurance companies had the power to deny people with pre-existing conditions.” Facts First: One of Harris’ claims about Project 2025 is false, while another is at least misleading. The Project 2025 document does not show that Trump intends...