Project 2025 Is Here

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🗓️ 9 February 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Senators Chris Van Hollen and Tammy Baldwin discuss plans being floated in Congress to fight the Trump-Musk dismantling of the federal government; fmr. Education Secretary Arne Duncan explains what's at stake for America's children if the Department of Education is shut down; Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza offers a warning about what happens when big tech coddles dictators; Imani Perry and Errin Haines discuss why eviscerating the civil service could hit the Black community hardest.

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0:00.0	VALCET.
0:01.6	It starts now.
0:09.9	And good morning.
0:10.9	It's Sunday, February the 9th, day 20 of the second Trump administration.
0:14.5	And in the final months of the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump went out of his way many times to distance himself
0:22.1	from this. Project 2025, the ultra-conservative policy blueprint that was deeply unpopular
0:29.8	amongst voters, particularly if you got a chance to read all 922 pages of it. Trump literally
0:35.9	claimed to know nothing about this. He disavowed the Heritage
0:39.2	Foundation, which spearheaded the project. He disavowed the fact that a number of his allies
0:45.1	were involved in it. Now, a lot of people around him pulled their support for Project
0:49.7	2025 during the election. The publication of this book by the Heritage Foundation was a bit of a
0:57.4	problem because the foundation's president, Kevin Roberts, had a book that was delayed until after
1:03.5	the election because the forward to that book was written by the guy who Trump chose as his
1:09.3	running mate, J.D. Vance. Trump's top campaign advisors
1:13.5	even put out a statement that read, quote, reports of Project 2025's demise would be greatly
1:20.0	welcomed. Remember, I talked about Project 2025 literally every time I was on TV. But now just weeks into Trump's second term,
1:30.1	Project 2025's influence abounds.
1:33.0	It's not even in the shadows anymore.
1:35.1	Several of Trump's cabinet members and administrative employees
1:37.8	are credited as authors of or contributors to specific chapters in Project 2025, including his new CIA director,
1:48.0	John Ratcliffe, the FCC chair, Brendan Carr, the Bordersar, Tom Homan, his senior counselor,
1:54.2	Peter Navarro, who did time in jail. And last Thursday, all 53 Republican senators voted to confirm one of Project 2025's key architects,
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