This is about the most balanced account I’ve seen (and I have not seen all that many).
Trump was cited, in several sources, that he liked some of it and some he did not like.
Who were some of the authors? The paragraph below is about 80% of the way down the article.
“About two-thirds of authors and editors involved in Project 2025’s plan served in the Trump administration. HUD Secretary Ben Carson, acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller, deputy White House chief of staff Rick Dearborn, former OMB director Russ Vought, and top DHS official Ken Cuccinelli contribute chapters, just to name a few. And John McEntee, the White House personnel director who purged officials viewed as disloyal to Trump, has a key role in collecting staff recommendations for the project. (CNN reported that at least 140 former Trump “administration officials were in some way involved in it.)." Heritage Foundation people too.
In talk about what a second presidential term for Donald Trump might bring, one name has become the shorthand for all the horrifying things that might await: Project 2025.
It’s been called “authoritarian” and “dystopian.” It’s the talk of TikTok. Some Democrats see it as the ace in the hole that could save President Joe Biden’s struggling reelection campaign. But Trump is now claiming, implausibly, to know nothing about it.
So what is it?
Project 2025 is the conservative movement’s detailed and specific plan for what the next Republican president should do with his power, including its preparation to put that plan into action. Basically, it’s an attempt to make the second Trump term way more organized and effective than the first.
Organized by the right-wing think tank the Heritage Foundation and advised by more than 100 conservative groups, Project 2025 has put forth a 922-page list of policy recommendations, going agency by agency in the federal government.
It is not a pie-in-the-sky policy agenda full of bold but empty promises. It is crafted to be a list of things the next president’s appointees really can do, put together by many people who served in top posts under Trump last time and could well do so again. (Project 2025 is also collecting a database of names of conservatives who could take jobs in Trump’s second term.)
But what does it say? Are its proposals as terrifying and extreme as progressives are claiming? And are they really what Trump would end up doing?
The answers are a bit complicated because Project 2025 encompasses a lot of different things (and there are some claims about what’s in it that are simply false). I think of its agenda as falling into three buckets:
1) Concentrating power in the presidency: The idea here is to give Trump and his appointees more power over the executive branch relative to permanent nonpartisan civil service professionals (who he disparages as the so-called “deep state”). Critics fear this will lead to the abuse of power and political hackery. Trump supports these ideas and we have every reason to believe he’d implement them.
2) Achieving longtime conservative priorities: This is stuff like slashing regulations, reducing federal spending on the poor, ditching efforts to fight climate change, ramping up military spending, and so on. Many progressives think these ideas are terrible, but they aren’t exactly new. Trump supports basically all of these. (Project 2025 mostly avoids taking firm positions on issues where Trump breaks from the conservative consensus, such as trade.)
3) Taking a hardline religious-right agenda: The project lays out quite aggressive proposals to use federal power to prevent abortions and restrict certain contraceptive coverage. It even says that pornography should be “outlawed” and its creators and distributors should be “imprisoned.”
These last ones are the proposals Trump may be most wary of. “Some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal,” he wrote on TruthSocial, without specifying which things he meant. But the reality is that these are all major causes of some of Trump’s most important and loyal political allies, people he frequently rewards with key appointments. If he hands them key posts again in his second term and neglects to rein them in, the abortion proposals in particular could well come to pass.
Now, there are also many claims circulating about things purportedly in Project 2025 that are not in fact in there (it does not, for instance, propose ending no-fault divorce). But much of its 922 pages do indeed seem to be a plausibly accurate guide to what Trump would pursue if elected.
Who is behind Project 2025? Is it Trump?
The story of Project 2025 starts with the Heritage Foundation. Since its founding in the 1970s, Heritage has styled itself as the main think tank of the conservative movement. Its goal is to push the Republican Party toward a further right agenda so that GOP officials listen more to ideologues and hardliners, not moderates and the traditional party establishment.
Heritage does this partly by crafting and advocating for policy proposals. They also try to be a sort of “administration-in-waiting” when the GOP is out of power, with experts on their payroll who can join a newly elected administration. In some ways, Project 2025 is not new: The Heritage Foundation has been releasing extremely long (and extreme) plans for what the next conservative president should do since 1980.
Yet the dynamics this time around are different, in part due to Heritage’s close ties to Trump and in part due to the unusual situation where a former president is trying to regain office.
Ordinarily, there’d be a fair amount of ambiguity about who the next president would appoint to his administration if elected. But Trump has been president before, and when he was, he heavily relied on Heritage appointees. (After his unexpected 2016 win, he needed to quickly staff an administration and come up with policies, and Heritage was ready and waiting.)
About two-thirds of authors and editors involved in Project 2025’s plan served in the Trump administration. HUD Secretary Ben Carson, acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller, deputy White House chief of staff Rick Dearborn, former OMB director Russ Vought, and top DHS official Ken Cuccinelli contribute chapters, just to name a few. And John McEntee, the White House personnel director who purged officials viewed as disloyal to Trump, has a key role in collecting staff recommendations for the project. (CNN reported that at least 140 former Trump administration officials were in some way involved in it.)
Trump also praised the Heritage Foundation at an April 2022 event, calling it a “great group” that would “lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do” when “the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America.” (Obviously, that conflicts with his recent claim that he has “no idea who is behind” it and that he has “nothing to do with them.”) Much of the plan also seems crafted to appeal to Trump specifically, and there’s tons of stuff in it that he openly supports.
Having said all that, it does appear true that Project 2025 was crafted without Trump’s personal involvement. It was put together in early 2023, before Trump had actually won the nomination again, and while Heritage was cultivating close ties to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis too. It’s a plan for what movement conservatives, including many close Trump allies, hope to do, but he hasn’t necessarily signed onto all of it. --à
Martina Navratilova? Oh, yes, the person who went to which medical school? No, so she went to which nursing college? No. Do we EVEN know if she got a certificate from her elementary school in First Aid In Czechoslavakia, wherever, or anytime since?
I can tell you one thing that I do know.
The Heritage Foundation KNOWS more about American constitutional law than Martina knows about medicine or first aid. You are a sports guy, so I will repeat what Darrell Royal always said: We have to "dance with who brung ya."
I guess your date was Martina...I will stick with the Heritage Foundation!
HUSBAND USES DRONE TO CATCH WIFE CHEATING ON HIM WITH HER BOSS
Forget Sherlock Holmes—meet Jing, the tech-savvy husband who used a drone to bust his cheating wife! When Jing started noticing his wife’s suspicious behavior, he didn’t turn to a private eye or a hidden camera. Instead, he opted for a high-tech, remote-controlled drone to keep tabs on her clandestine activities. As he piloted his trusty gadget, he uncovered an affair worthy of a daytime soap opera. Buckle up for a wild ride as we delve into how Jing’s high-flying detective work exposed a scandalous office romance!
I did not intend for my post about Navratilova's absurd comment or Alday's threat to be taken as anything but examples of a crazy world. There is, of course, no credence to the tennis greats suggestion.
My husband has been gone 15 years and I'm still remembering the good times on a regular basis. It does get easier but he is always in my heart and soul.
The big picture: The tally came from 154 presidential specialists who are current and recent members of the American Political Science Association. They were asked to give every president a score, from 0 to 100.
Zoom in: Abraham Lincoln topped the list with an average score of 95, while Biden scored an average of 62.66. That put him two spots above Ronald Reagan.
Representatives for Trump, who averaged just under 11 points, did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment.
Not a reply from a police officer but from the defendant.
The father of a friend was caught doing 70mph in a 60 on a main road and ended up in court. The judge asked why he was driving at such a dangerous speed on the road. The defendant replied that it wasn't’t dangerous as the road was designed to be driven safely at 80mph. The judge asked where had he heard such a ridiculous thing. the defendant replied that he hadn’t heard it, he knew it was true because he had designed the road himself …
The judge, taken aback, recovered to say, “Well, now that you have tested the road can you please refrain from testing it again?” and let him off the offence
With Joe Biden out of the presidential race and endorsing Kamala Harris to replace him, how will this shakeup affect California races? Reform California says a red wave could be coming no matter what — if Republicans get their act together.
On Sunday, President Joe Biden — after months of speculation about his health, chances against former President Donald Trump, and ability to deliver down-ballot victories for Democrats across the country — withdrew from his reelection bid and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, to take his spot as the Democratic nominee.
Not only is this a major shakeup in the presidential race in 2024, but it also will have a massive effect on down-ballot races. But how will it affect California specifically?
Carl DeMaio, chairman of Reform California and a candidate for State Assembly, says that prior to Biden dropping out, “This election cycle had been shaping up to be a very, very good one for us in California and we had a real shot at ending the Democrats’ supermajority control of our state!”
DeMaio and Reform California see a Kamala Harris ticket impacting that momentum in the following ways, and they have a plan to address it:
THE REAL REASON DEMOCRATS DITCHED BIDEN: By all accounts, the real reason Democrats ditched Biden was not to win the Presidency, but to limit the damage to their down ticket House and Senate candidates, says DeMaio. All the polling suggested a Biden ticket would depress Democrat turnout in November – especially among African American voters – hence why they feel forced to stick with Kamala Harris despite her weakness.
WHY IT WON'T WORK IN CA: Data shows California voters aren't just rejecting Biden, they are rejecting CA Democr
The doctor says, “Okay, what seems to be the problem?”
The mother says, “It’s my daughter Suzie. She keeps getting these cravings, she’s putting on weight and is sick most mornings.”
The doctor gives Suzie a good examination, and then turns to the mother and says, “Well, I don’t know how to tell you this, but Suzie is pregnant. About 4 months would be my guess.”
The mother says, “Pregnant?! She can’t be, she has never ever been left alone with a man! Have you, Suzie?”
Suzie says, “No mom! I’ve never even kissed a man!”
The doctor walks over to the window and just stares out of it.
A few moments later, the mother says, “Is there something wrong out there, doctor?”
The doctor replies, “No, not really. It’s just that the last time something like this happened, a star appeared in the East and three wise men came over the hill with gifts. I’ll be damned if I’m going to miss it this time!”
CNN’s chief national security correspondent Alex Marquardt testified he had “no evidence” linking a decorated Navy veteran to the black market trade of Afghan refugees before airing a report that sparked a $1 billion defamation lawsuit against the embattled network.
Knewz.com obtained an unredacted transcript from Marquardt’s deposition in the ongoing case filed by Zachary Young, who alleges the struggling network wanted viewers to believe he was “operating in a black market.”
Young’s allegations stem from a November 2021 episode of The Lead With Jake Tapper that showed his photo during a discussion about the repercussions of America’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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