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WHAT TRUMP DOESN’T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT PROJECT 2025  
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Judd Legum
July 8, 2024
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_ Project 2025 is a radical blueprint for a potential second Trump
administration, spearheaded by the right-wing Heritage Foundation. Top
members of Trump's 2024 campaign are involved in Project 2025 and
training and recruitment of political appointees _

Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photos: AP,

 

Project 2025 is a radical blueprint
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a potential second Trump administration, spearheaded by the right-wing
Heritage Foundation. The plan calls for withdrawing approval for the
abortion pill, banning pornography, slashing corporate taxes,
abolishing the Department of Education, replacing thousands of
experienced federal workers with political appointees, imposing a
"biblically based… definition of marriage and families," and placing
the Justice Department and other independent agencies under the direct
control of the president. 

These and other provisions of Project 2025 are quite unpopular. As
Project 2025 has gained notoriety — thanks to actor Taraji P.
Henson
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others — Trump has sought to distance himself from the effort. On
July 5, Trump posted
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Truth Social that he knows "nothing about Project 2025," has "no idea
who is behind it," and has "nothing to do with them." 

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This is false. 

The co-editors of Project 2025, Paul Dans and Steven Groves, both held
high-ranking positions in the Trump administration. Under Trump, Dans
served as Chief of Staff at the Office of Personnel Management
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staffing the federal government, and was a senior advisor at the
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Groves served Trump
in the White House as Deputy Press Secretary and Assistant Special
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Project 2025's two associate directors, Spencer Chretien and Troup
Hemenway, are also tightly connected with Trump. Chretien was Special
Assistant to President Donald J. Trum
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Director of Presidential Personnel, "helping to identify, recruit, and
place hundreds of political appointees at all levels of government."
Previously, Trump appointed Chretien to a position at HUD. Hemenway
also served as an Associate Director of Presidential Personnel
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previously worked on Trump's 2016 campaign and Trump's 2016 transition
team.  

Project 2025's 922-page policy agenda has 30 chapters and 34 authors.
Twenty-five of Project 2025's authors served as members of the Trump
administration. Another Project 2025 author, Stephen Moore, was
nominated by Trump to the Federal Reserve but forced to withdraw "over
his past inflammatory writings about women
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Further, William Walton, the co-author of the chapter on the
Department of the Treasury, was a key member of Trump's transition
team
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All told, of the 38 people responsible for writing and editing Project
2025, 31 were appointed or nominated to positions in the Trump
administration and transition. In other words, while Trump claims he
has "nothing to do" with the people who created Project 2025, over 81%
had formal roles in his first administration. 
 

The chapter on the Executive Office of the President of the United
States, for example, is written by Russ Vought. As president, Trump
appointed Vought to his Cabinet as Director of the Office of
Management and Budget. In that role, Vought authorized the rerouting
of billions from the Pentagon to fund Trump's border wall
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In his Project 2025 chapter, Vought — a "self-described Christian
nationalist
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— calls for the abolishment of the Gender Policy Council
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security, health, gender-based violence and education—with a focus
on gender equity and equality, and particular attention to the
barriers faced by women and girls." Vought is also drafting Project
2025's "playbook
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for the first 180 days of a Trump administration, which will not be
shared publicly. 

Trump appeared at a Mar-a-lago fundraiser
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non-profit group, Center for Renewing America, in August 2022, and
declared that Vought would “do a great job in continuing our quest
to make America great again.” In addition to his key role in Project
2025, Vought is the policy director Republican National Committee's
platform writing committee and a top candidate for White House Chief
of Staff
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Trump wins in November. 

Gene Hamilton, a top aide to Trump Attorney General Jeff Sessions,
wrote the Project 2025 chapter on the Department of Justice. During
the Trump administration, Hamilton drafted Trump's infamous child
separation policy
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Hamilton currently serves as Vice-President and General Counsel of
America First Legal Foundation, an organization run by top Trump
advisor Stephen Miller. 

In Hamilton's Project 2025 chapter, he advocates for the deployment of
active-duty military to the southern border. Hamilton also calls for
an elimination of the Department of Justice's independence from the
White House, saying a new Trump administration should "end immediately
any policies, investigations, or cases that run contrary to law or
Administration policies." (This would presumably include any cases
against Trump himself.) He also proposes using the Office of Civil
Rights exclusively to prosecute "state and local governments,
institutions of higher education, corporations, and any other private
employers" who have diversity initiatives. 

The Project 2025 chapter on the Agency for International Development
was written by Max Primorac, the acting Chief Operating Officer for
the same agency under the Trump administration. During a 2019 State
Department conference on religious freedom, Primorac generated
controversy by promoting Trump's reelection
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After Trump lost to Biden in November 2020, Primorac told agency
staff not to cooperate with the transition
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In his Project 2025 chapter, Primorac argues against providing
international aid to combat hunger and starvation. Primorac says the
key to ending poverty is encouraging more oil and gas production. He
advocates renaming "the USAID Office of Gender Equality and Women’s
Empowerment (GEWE) as the USAID Office of Women, Children, and
Families" and putting an "unapologetically pro-life politically
appointed Senior Coordinator" in charge of the office. 

Here is the complete list of the 31 authors and editors of Project
2025 that have formal connections to the Trump administration. 

TOP MEMBERS OF TRUMP'S 2024 CAMPAIGN ARE INVOLVED IN PROJECT 2025

In addition to a detailed policy agenda, Project 2025 also involves
the training and recruitment of political appointees for a potential
second Trump administration. One key component of this effort is the
"Presidential Administration Academy," which Heritage bills as "a
one-of-a-kind educational and skill-building program designed to
prepare and equip future political appointees _now_ to be ready on
Day One of the next conservative Administration." 

Among the program instructors is Karoline Leavitt, the national press
secretary for the 2024 Trump campaign and an assistant press secretary
during the Trump administration. Leavitt co-teaches a video course on
"The Art of Professionalism." She also appears in a promotional video
for the academy. 

Also appearing in the video is top Trump advisor Stephen Miller.
Despite his role in the academy, Miller claims he has "never been
involved with Project 2025
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organization, America First Legal, is a member of the Project 2025
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THE HISTORY OF HERITAGE'S INFLUENCE WITH TRUMP

Trump's claim that he has "nothing to do" with the people behind
Project 2025 is clearly false. But is it possible that Trump will
simply ignore Project 2025's recommendations? History tells us that is
unlikely. 

Prior to the 2016 election, the Heritage Foundation created a similar
project
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"Mandate for Leadership." The "Mandate for Leadership" contained "334
unique policy recommendations." One year into Trump's term, the
Heritage Foundation announced that "64 percent of the policy
prescriptions were included in Trump’s budget, implemented through
regulatory guidance, or under consideration for action in accordance
with The Heritage Foundation’s original proposals."

Seventy Heritage Foundation employees had already joined the
administration, and other Heritage officials "briefed administration
officials on the recommendations, provided additional insight and
information, and advocated for reform." 

In October 2017, Trump was the keynote speaker at a Heritage
Foundation event
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where he praised the organization as "titans in the fight to defend,
promote, and preserve our great American heritage."  He credited the
organization with helping him confirm Justice Neil Gorsuch and "ending
the war on beautiful coal." Trump said that he needed "the help of the
Heritage Foundation" to advance other priorities, including large tax
cuts. He concluded by expressing his "gratitude" to "the dedicated
scholars and staff at the Heritage Foundation."

Now, in an effort to win the White House a second time, Trump is
playing dumb. 

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