PREVIEW: The Friday Edition - Following up on Project 2025.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Just over a year into Donald Trump’s second term, one of the most common requests from readers has been to revisit that conclusion and my prediction that much of the Project 2025 agenda would be struck down through legal challenges or abandoned by Trump. Today, we’re doing just that.
We’ll start with a refresher on Project 2025, then lay out which policy goals from Project 2025 have been implemented, which goals the administration is pursuing but hasn’t yet implemented, and which goals it has abandoned or actively undermined. Finally, I’ll revisit our coverage of Project 2025 from before the election.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | This is Tangle. |
| 0:09.0 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:27.4 | Today, we're talking about Project 2025, yes, revisiting Project 2025, as so many of you have requested. |
| 0:36.9 | A year and a half ago, we published an explainer on Project 2025, and at the time, it was one of the most requested tangled topics ever. |
| 0:46.0 | In that piece, we explored the connection between Trump's campaign and Project 2025, as well as the overlap between the project's goals and Trump's agenda 47. For more information, |
| 0:56.5 | we interviewed Paul Dan's, a former Trump administration official who was known as the architect |
| 1:01.3 | of Project 2025. At the time, Trump claimed he had nothing to do with and knew nothing about |
| 1:07.5 | Project 2025, likely in response to poor polling for some of its stated goals. |
| 1:12.7 | We cast doubt on that assertion, describing links between Trump's first administration and Project |
| 1:17.9 | 2025. However, we also emphasize the space between the documents' calls and Trump's likely |
| 1:23.4 | actions. We wrote, quote, Trump is lying when he says he knows nothing about Project |
| 1:28.4 | 2025 and doesn't know any of the people involved. He has deep connections to its organizers, |
| 1:34.0 | and he has been a featured guest at events promoting Project 2025 since at least 2022. |
| 1:39.9 | Many of his goals are clearly aligned with Project 2025. Yet, at the same time, he has distanced himself from the project publicly, |
| 1:47.4 | and we have good reason to believe he'll take the policy recommendations he likes |
| 1:50.8 | and leave behind many of the ones he doesn't. |
| 1:53.7 | Simply put, Trump's agenda and Project 2025 are not the same, |
| 1:57.6 | as evidenced by the differences in the agendas Trump has endorsed and the one |
| 2:01.9 | Project 2025 has put forward, end quote. Just over a year into Donald Trump's second term, |
| 2:07.5 | one of the most common requests from readers has been to revisit that conclusion and my prediction |
| 2:12.5 | that much of the Project 2025 agenda would be struck down through legal challenges or abandoned by Trump. |
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