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‘The Project’ explores Project 2025’s origins and goals to reshape American culture

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Many of the policies enacted by the Trump administration with lightning speed in these first 100 days were initially laid out two years ago in the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025. David Graham’s new book “The Project” details its origins and sweeping goals to reshape American culture. White House correspondent Laura Barrón-López sat down with Graham to discuss more. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Just over 100 days into the new administration, we're taking a broad look at what's been accomplished already and what else might be coming.

0:08.9

White House correspondent Laura Barone Lopez is back now with more on the impact of Project 2025.

0:15.1

Many of the policies enacted by the Trump administration with lightning speed in these first 100 days were initially laid out two years ago in a document called Project 2025 by the Cons administration, with lightning speed in these first 100 days, were initially laid

0:21.4

out two years ago in a document called Project 2025 by the Conservative Heritage Foundation.

0:26.8

Atlantic staff writer David Graham's new book, The Project, details the origins of Project

0:31.4

2025 and its sweeping goals to reshape American culture by expanding the president's control

0:36.8

over policies on gender

0:38.3

and immigration to the economy and the environment. David, welcome to the News Hour.

0:43.4

Thank you for having me. Many people by now have likely heard of Project 2025, but they may not know

0:49.2

its origin story. Can you tell us a bit about where it came from? Yeah. In early 2022, the Heritage Foundation's president charged Paul Danz, a former Trump

1:00.7

administration staffer, with putting together a group of thinkers from across the Trump-friendly

1:05.2

right to produce basically a platform for Trump or an agenda for Trump or the next Republican president,

1:11.9

whoever that would be. And it would include both policy ideas, waste, implement them,

1:17.2

vetting of staffers who could serve on that administration and be trained ahead of time,

1:21.2

and then a kind of playbook for the first 100 days so that the president could hit the ground

1:25.3

running with a really effective rollout of policies.

1:28.6

During the campaign, however, President Trump repeatedly said that he didn't know anything about

1:33.2

Project 2025, didn't know the people behind it. But how many of Project 2025's proposals have

1:39.5

already been put into effect by the president? It's hard to quantify exactly because it's such a range of ideas.

1:46.0

But there have been dozens of executive orders that directly echo what's in Project 2025.

1:51.0

Many people involved in the project have entered the administration.

1:55.0

And in general, the whole approach of, you know, reducing the federal bureaucracy, seizing power for the executive branch.

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