A key author of a controversial blueprint for a second Donald Trump administration said he maintains close contact with Trump, despite the former president’s disavowals of his work. Russell Vought, who helped write the Project 2025 policy agenda that includes the mass firing of federal workers, said he’s kept close ties to Trump since serving … Read more
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Co-published with Documented ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Project 2025, the controversial playbook and policy agenda for a right-wing presidential administration, has lost its director and faced scathing criticism from both … Read more
Even in the chaos of his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump did a few things by the book. Like all major party presidential candidates, by early summer, his campaign had a team in place to oversee the transition to the White House in the event that he won. This time, by contrast, Trump has yet … Read more
Former President Donald Trump flew on a private jet with the president of the Heritage Foundation, the far-right think tank behind Project 2025, on his way to a conference the institute held in 2022, according to a new report. The Washington Post obtained flight tracking data and a photo of Trump traveling with Kevin Roberts … Read more
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg dropped one reason Project 2025, the far-right presidential transition plan, is “wildly unpopular” on Wednesday. “So much so that I’m pretty sure it is the first time in modern history that a presidential candidate has had to disavow his own policy framework,” Buttigieg told MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace. Buttigieg’s comments arrive … Read more
Donald Trump has been working hard to distance himself from the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a blueprint for a second Trump administration that would radically reshape the federal government and American life. Among other proposals, such as dismantling the U.S. Department of Education, the plan outlines how the government could keep detailed records on abortions … Read more
On the same day the director of the far-right presidential transition plan known as Project 2025 stepped down ― and amid Donald Trump’s attempts to distance himself from it ― news outlets published a book excerpt tying Trump’s running mate directly to the project’s organizers. Sen. JD Vance, Trump’s vice presidential nominee, wrote the foreword … Read more
Paul Dans, the director of the controversial presidential transition plan known as Project 2025, has stepped down from his role at The Heritage Foundation, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts confirmed in a statement. Roberts made it clear that, despite Dans’ departure, the political goals of the right-wing manifesto remain very much alive. “When we began … Read more
Vice President Kamala Harris called out Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) for not bringing up Project 2025 in his speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday. “Frankly, what is very telling is what [Vance] did not talk about on that stage. He did not talk about Project 2025, their 900-page blueprint for a second Trump … Read more
The right-wing majority on the Supreme Court last month upended a 40-year legal precedent that has governed how federal agencies are able to set rules, in a decision legal experts say will do sweeping damage to the regulation of everything from health care to student loan forgiveness to environmental protections and more. The consequences for … Read more
