News analysis: Of the many watch parties going on in Washington DC, the packed one at the Heritage Foundation, which led the compilation of Project 2025 policy tome shaping Trump’s agenda, had special significance. Political editor David Maddox reports from Washington, D.C.
Trump once distanced himself from Project 2025. But now MAGA’s hardliners are ready for the revolution
During the bitter presidential election campaign, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and her supporters regularly quoted from the Project 2025 tome produced by more than 100 right-wing thinktanks and led by the massive Heritage Foundation.
At one point, such was the intensity of attacks around it, Donald Trump publicly disavowed the document and distanced himself from it.
The controversial 900-page document, painted by Democrats as a roadmap for Trump’s second term, set out plans to expand executive authority, replace civil servants with ideologically aligned appointees, crush abortion rights and impose an anti-immigrant agenda
Trump once distanced himself from Project 2025. But now MAGA’s hardliners are ready for the revolution