Project 2025 has become a blueprint for the Trump administration. But what's the endgame?

I think at the heart of all of this is they want this Christian conservative vision of society.

And the way that they want to achieve that is by dismantling many of the institutions of government as we know them.

And then using what's left and sort of reorienting it to create that Christian society that they envision.

On this week's more to the story, journalist David A. Graham examines how the conservative

playbook's influence reshape the federal government in 2025.

And what's coming in 26. Stay with us.

This is more to the story. I'm Out Letson. During the presidential election campaign of 2024,

a new conservative playbook emerged, Project 2025. Spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, this 900-plus page document was a roadmap for consolidating executive power under a future

conservative president.

Democrats warned it would lead to authoritarianism. Some Republicans tried to steer clear of it.

Even then candidate Donald Trump claimed he didn't know anything about it. But Project

2025 has endured. And today, many of its ideas and policies like mass deportations, the replacement of

federal workers with Trump loyalists, and the elimination of DEI initiatives have been embraced

by the president. Today's guest is David A. Graham, a staff writer at the Atlantic who's gone deep,

reading and analyzing Project 2025. His book is called

The Project, How Project 2025 is Reshaping America. David, thank you so much for being here today.

Thank you for having me. So what was the impetus for writing Project 2025 and had anything

like this been done before?

There have been things like this. So, in fact, the Heritage Foundation has been doing things

almost every four years since 1980, when they put together a document that became really

important for the Reagan administration, sort of setting the government-shinking deregulatory agenda for Reagan.

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