Project 2025.
February 20, 2025.
Candidate Donald Trump promised action beginning day one of his presidency and took office prepared to fulfil that promise.
Trump’s blitzkrieg approach to his first 100 days appears
carefully planned. “Mandate for Leadership, The Conservative Promise,” is a 2023
document funded and produced by the Heritage Foundation. It outlines four
pillars a new conservative president should follow.
Pillar I is an outline of how “federal agencies must be
governed.” Pillar II is a personnel index for potential appointees at all
levels of government. Pillar III, the Presidential Administration Academy, is a
teaching tool for adherents to the program. Pillar IV is “the Playbook” for
“forming agency teams and drafting transition plans to move out upon the
President’s utterance of ‘so help me God.’”
Mandate for Leadership is better known as Project 2025. In
April 2022, speaking at a Heritage Foundation event, Trump said the team
drafting Project 2025 was “going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for
exactly what our movement will do.” But after Democrats publicized some of its controversial
elements, Trump reversed course. During the September 2024 presidential debate,
he disavowed the plan. “I have nothing to do with Project 2025. That’s out
there. I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it, purposefully. I’m not going
to read it”
The authors of the plan nevertheless appeared confident they
would have the new president’s attention. In the preface, “A Note on Project
2025,” they write, “one set of eyes
reading these pages will be those of the 47th President of the
United States.”
On February 14 the New York Times reported that more than 60
major moves taken by the administration align with Project 2025. Time and CNN
independently found two thirds of executive actions mirror Project 2025.
Perhaps it’s not a surprise that the Playbook is being
followed whether the President has a dogeared copy or not. Russell Voght,
Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Border Czar Tom Homan have
been cited as architects of the plan. They join many other high profile members
of the administration with ties to Project 2025, including Deputy Chief of
Staff Steven Miller; Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt; and FCC Chair Brendan
Carr.
Notes.
Chromeextension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-project-2025-will-lay-groundwork-for-second-term/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-i-have-nothing-to-do-with-project-2025-trump-says
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/14/us/politics/project-2025-trump-actions.html
https://time.com/7209901/donald-trump-executive-actions-project-2025/
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/politics/trump-policy-project-2025-executive-orders-invs/index.html
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