EPAIt is a 900-page policy “wish list” for the next Republican president, a proposal that would expand presidential power and impose an ultra-conservative social vision.
“What you’re going to hear tonight is a detailed and dangerous plan called Project 2025, that the former president intends on implementing if he were elected again,” Vice-President Kamala Harris said early in the ABC News presidential debate.
Donald Trump, who has repeatedly disavowed the document, responded: “I have nothing to do with Project 2025”.
Dozens of former Trump administration officials have however contributed to the think tank’s proposals, providing Democrats with an attack line against the former president.
The backlash against some of the more radical proposals in Project 2025, conceived by the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, has been intense.
The project’s director stepped down after criticism of the plan from Democrats and anger from the Trump campaign, which accused Heritage officials of trying to exaggerate their influence over the former president.
And despite Trump distancing himself from Project 2025, it continues to remain a key election talking point.
Here’s your guide to what the document contains.
Who wrote Project 2025?
The Heritage Foundation is one of Washington’s most prominent right-wing think tanks. It first produced policy plans for future Republican administrations in 1981, when Ronald Reagan was about to take office.
It has produced similar documents in connection…
