Welcome to the beat. I'm Katie Fang in for Ari Melburg. We start with chilling

revelations about the GOP's official new agenda hatched behind closed doors and

how it echoes extreme Trump policies his allies have

sought to downplay.

Today, for the first time, the RNC released details of its new 2024 party platform.

It will be voted on and officially adopted next week at the Republican Convention, but Trump

is already publicly praising it, and there's a reason why. As the New York Times puts it today,

the Republican platform could read like a Trump rally.

It's a document that reads less like a list of policy proposals

and more like the teleprompter at a Trump rally.

The Washington Post describing it as, quote, a full Trump takeover of the party.

The platform promises the mass deportations of millions and proposes ending the

Department of Education.

Echoing several of the pillars of another conservative roadmap, the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025.

These policies are so alarming to most Americans that Donald Trump has sought to distance himself

from Project 2025 in recent days, claiming at various times that he's never

heard of the blueprint for his potential second term and that he has nothing to do with any of the people

involved, which would be a lot more believable if dozens of

them had not worked in his own administration, or if he wasn't on camera praising the

Heritage Foundation and several of the authors of Project 2025 by name.

We need the help of the Heritage Foundation.

We're delighted to be joined on this occasion by Acting Director Ross Vote,

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