The director of the “Project 2025” program, which has been criticized for his far-right proposals, will resign, the Heritage Foundation reported on Tuesday, a resolution that comes after former President Donald Trump and his crusader strongly denied any connection to his questionable policy. . agenda.
Paul Dans will leave his position at the Heritage Foundation “and [move] to the front lines where the fighting remains,” Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said in an article to Forbes.
Project 2025 is a multi-pronged endeavor led through the right-wing Heritage Foundation, which aims to offer a blueprint for the next conservative administration, that of Trump, which has sparked controversy for its 900-page policy framework calling for a review of the entire executive branch. Formation
Trump’s crusade responded to the news by emphasizing that Project 2025 was not affiliated with the crusade: “Reports of the demise of Project 2025 would be very welcome and deserve to serve as a warning to anyone or any organization seeking to distort their influence with the president. ” Trump and his team, it will not end well for you.
The Trump campaign has distanced itself from Project 2025 as its policies have come under scrutiny, with Trump saying he has “nothing to do with them” and some of their ideas are “ridiculous and abysmal,” and campaign advisor Chris LaCivita saying the group had become a “pain in the ass” for the campaign.
Dans defended Project 2025 as recently as Tuesday, saying on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” that in order to “take back the government. . . We have to start with the Executive Branch. “
It’s unclear why Dans left the organization: Roberts said Project 2025 was still expected to wrap up its “policy writing after this year’s bipartisan conventions” and that it is “sticking to that timeline. “The Washington Post reported that advisers to Trump’s crusade “became enraged. “” » to the Heritage Foundation for selling the task and had threatened anyone involved in it with exclusion from a long-term Trump administration.
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Although Roberts has said the progression of his policy is complete, there are still other facets to the 2025 allocation, adding to a large-scale effort to staff a potential Trump White House by providing a link on LinkedIn. as a database for federal workers and hopeful educational programs. The Heritage Foundation showed Tuesday that efforts “to build a device for staff” would continue. The organization has not yet responded to a request for comment on whether it still intends to release a “playbook” for the first 180 days of an imaginable Trump administration, which was to be the “fourth pillar” of the 2025 task. The Post reported Tuesday that the Heritage Foundation had posted new “talking points” asking attendees to “emphasize that homework doesn’t speak for Trump,” and that some workers have thought about leaving so as not to hurt their long-term job prospects.
“Under the leadership of Paul Dans, Project 2025 has completed precisely what it set out to do: bring together more than 110 leading conservative organizations to create a unified conservative vision, motivated to delegate strength to the unelected administrative state and push it back. to the people. Roberts said in a statement, praising Dans as the user who “built the task from the ground up and courageously led this venture. “
Vice President Kamala Harris’ crusader responded on Tuesday to the news of Dans’ resignation, who resisted Trump’s attempts to distance himself from the Project 2025 agenda. vote because Donald Trump is on the ballot. It is his agenda, written through his allies, that Donald Trump will have to impose on our country,” Harris campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodríguez said on aArray. “Hiding the 920-page plan from other Americans does not makes it less genuine. – In fact, it deserves to get the electorate more involved about what else Trump and his allies are hiding. ”
The Project 2025 policy plan broadly calls for radical adjustments to the executive branch, adding the replacement of career civil servants with political appointees and outright abolishing some agencies, such as the Education and Justice departments. National security. The program aims to strengthen the president and ensure that the executive branch is ideologically aligned with him, and presents policy proposals consistent with conservative values, such as an emphasis on the nuclear family. Policy proposals include getting rid of climate replacement projects, rescinding federal approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, ending LGBTQ projects and preventing all student loan forgiveness, among other measures. Many of the political agenda proposals are very similar to Trump’s Agenda47 platform.
Although Trump has denied any connection to Project 2025, the authors of his political platform include many former members of his presidential administration, adding members of his cabinet. Trump has also praised the Heritage Foundation’s political paintings in the past, saying at a 2022 dinner for the organization that it would “lay the groundwork and detail the plans for exactly what our movement will do. . . when our fellow Americans give us a colossal mandate. “
The 2025 Project is part of a long-term effort through the Heritage Foundation to advise incoming conservative presidents, and the organization says it made its first policy recommendations before Ronald Reagan’s presidency and has continued to consider policy platforms across the elections since then. The nonprofit had already made policy recommendations to Trump before the 2016 election and boasted, two years into his tenure in the White House, that Trump had already followed 64% of its recommendations, CBS News notes. . Although Project 2025 first released its policy plan in 2023, its proposals have only gained national attention over the past month, as Trump has publicly repudiated its timeline and Democrats have stepped up their attacks on him as President Joe Biden’s candidacy Biden was criticized. Democrats have continually highlighted Project 2025 as a major reason voters oppose Trump in the presidential election, prompting Trump and his crusade to publicly distance themselves from the Heritage Foundation paintings.
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