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'If You Can Keep It': The Objectives of Project 2025

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🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Project 2025 has been critiqued as a radically socially conservative and Christian nationalist proposal with the power to greatly disrupt the government.

But what exactly does it aim to do? And what is the likelihood that it could go into effect?

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You're listening to the 1A podcast where we get to the heart of the story.

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Joining me in studio is Todd Zwielic.

0:31.0

He joins us every week leading up to the election as part of our politics

0:34.0

series if you can keep it. In this weekly election series we leave the horse race

0:38.6

to the side instead we focus on the stakes of this election, for people, for the country, and for our democracy.

0:45.0

And while the nation gears up for the election this fall, one group has set their sights on a different date,

0:51.0

January 20, 2025, inauguration day.

0:54.8

The Heritage Foundation is a conservative think tank that's prepared a more than 900-page document

0:59.8

they hope Donald Trump will adopt if he becomes the next president. It's received

1:03.9

broad support from conservative groups and former Trump administration

1:07.4

staffers and allies. It's called the Presidential Transition Plan or as it's known more widely project 2025 and it's

1:15.4

something that a lot of you have asked us to dig into. Democrats critique this

1:20.5

plan as a radically socially conservative and in some ways Christian

1:24.4

nationalist proposal with the power to greatly disrupt the government.

1:28.6

But what exactly does it aim to do and what's the likelihood that it could go into effect. We get into it after the

1:35.1

break. Stay with us.

1:37.0

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