How Project 2025 Can Help Us Understand What Trump is Doing – and What’s Next

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🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Many of President Trump’s first policies in office — including removing Temporary Protected Status for migrants, walking back climate protections and denying trans personhood — were laid out and published back in April 2023, in the Heritage Foundation’s playbook Project 2025. “Project 2025 envisions an America where abortion is strictly illegal, sex is closely policed, public schools don’t exist, and justice is harsh,” writes Atlantic staff writer David A. Graham in his new book, “The Project.” In it, he analyzes the nearly thousand-page blueprint to make sense of what we’ve seen from Trump – and what could be ahead. He joins us to share what it all could mean for our democracy. Guests: David Graham, staff writer, The Atlantic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.0	The Trump administration moved Friday to implement the removal of job protections for career civil servants and make them easier to fire,
1:12.6	reinstituting so-called Schedule F was a key goal of Project 2025, and the Atlantic's David Graham
1:19.6	has looked at how closely the administration is following the Heritage Foundation's roadmap.
1:24.6	He says a key goal of the project isn't getting enough attention.
1:29.1	Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children. Graham explains
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