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    Will Trump implement Project 2025? What’s in the “transition” plan.

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    During the 2024 campaign, Democrats tried to tie former President Donald Trump to an unpopular policy plan called Project 2025, hoping to scare voters away from him. It clearly hasn’t worked well enough, and with Trump set to return to office next year with a Republican majority in the Senate and possibly the House of Representatives, he could have wide latitude to put in apply his preferred policies.

    So what is Project 2025 and how might it influence Trump’s governing agenda after he takes office next January?

    What is Project 2025?

    Project 2025 is a “presidential transition project” launched by Heritage Foundationa staunchly conservative think tank. The foundation has released a “mandate for leadership” document every election cycle for nearly 40 years since 1981, after Reagan’s first victory the previous year.

    Reagan went on to enact or attempt nearly two-thirds of the 2,000 policy recommendations in the first “mandate” document, according to Heritage Foundation.

    Trump said five of the eleven justices he considered for appointment to the Supreme Court seat opened by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia were Heritage Foundation picks.

    think tank, which supports the traditional conservative policy of “free enterprise, limited government … and a strong national defense,” describes Project 2025 as a conservative “action plan”.

    The document outlining the plan includes more than 900 pages of right-wing policy recommendations to expand the president’s control over the Justice Department and the FBI, impose nationwide restrictions on abortion access, roll back environmental regulations and eliminate entire federal departments.

    The project “does not speak for any candidate or campaign,” according to a statement posted on X. It’s “a coalition of more than 110 conservative groups advocating for policy and staffing recommendations for the next conservative president.”

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    Is Trump connected to Project 2025?

    The vast majority of authors and editors who worked on Project 2025 – 31 of 38 – have ties to Trump or his previous administration. These include Chris MillerTrump’s former acting secretary of defense, Ken Cuccinellihis acting assistant secretary for homeland security and Peter Navarrohis former White House adviser who served prison time for defying subpoenas from the committee investigating Trump’s efforts to steal the election.

    Paul Dans, Trump’s former chief of staff of the US Office of Personnel Management, was Director of Project 2025. Trump adviser Stephen Miller and his spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt appeared in a video for the project’s “Academy of Presidential Administration.”

    Vice President Kamala Harris tried to paint Trump as in lockstep with Project 2025.

    “What you will hear tonight is a detailed and dangerous plan called Project 2025 that the former president intends to implement if re-elected,” Harris said in it. single debate against Trump in September.

    Trump distanced himself from the project, claiming in July Truth Social’s post to “know nothing about Project 2025”.

    Representatives for the Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment. The Heritage Foundation also did not return a request for comment.

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    What does Project 2025 propose?

    Liberal think tanks and Democratic politicians have accused Project 2025 of trying to overthrow the government and dismantle checks and balances in support of a right-wing agenda. The plan is “the most conservative, unyielding and extreme agenda we’ve seen in modern times,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. September press conference. “It threatens to erode our democracy,” according to him American Civil Liberties Union.

    Project 2025’s proposals to restrict access to abortion have drawn particular attention — according to the document, the Food and Drug Administration should revoke its approval of the drug mifepristone. used in nearly two-thirds of abortions in the US and the ban Planned Parenthood since receiving Medicaid funding.

    trump card said in August would not rule out taking away their access to the drug. During the campaign, he enthusiastically embraced the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, which he paved the way for by appointing conservative Supreme Court justices. But so does he he said he would veto it a national ban on abortion.

    Project 2025 calls for a major overhaul of the Justice Department, including a “vast expansion” of political appointees to the Civil Rights Division and the FBI.

    Similarly, Trump said he would doubt the Department of Justice to serve him politically — “If I happen to be president and I see somebody doing well and beating me really bad, I say, ‘Go down and impeach them.’ ” he said on Univision in an interview last year. John Kelly, his former chief of staff, said Trump often described “constant and obsessive” ideas of using the FBI and Internal Revenue Service to target his enemies.

    Bill 2025 supports reducing environmental regulations, from weakening the Clean Air Act to removing grizzly bears and other species from laws that protect endangered species. The National Weather Service and five other National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration offices “could be supplied commercially, probably at lower cost and better quality,” according to the plan.

    Trump, who sometimes has declared climate change a “scam” he promised he would boosting fossil fuel production and reducing pollution regulations. In his previous term, he overturned more than 100 environmental rules, according to a New York Times analysis.

    The plan calls for the elimination of the Department of Education, Trump said would axes the department at a rally in Wisconsin in September. It would be reducing the regulations that impose on employers pay employees overtime – Under Trump, the Labor Department is making millions of workers ineligible for overtime pay.

    On immigration, Bill 2025 calls for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to implement “expedited removal” of undocumented immigrants — a process normally only used at the border — and greenlight ICE agents to enter “sensitive areas “. Congress would have to fund ICE to increase the daily beds available in the detention centers to 100,000, according to the bill.

    Trump has promised several times command of the National Guard troops to assist in mass deportations. He said he would activate supplies of the Alien Enemies Act, previously used to arrest people of Japanese, German, and Italian descent during World War II and to use other emergency provisions.

    Cybele Mayes-Osterman is a breaking news reporter for USA Today. Contact her by email at [email protected]. Follow X @CybeleMO.

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