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Today, Explained

Project 2026

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Trump has delivered conservatives much of the Project 2025 wishlist already. The Heritage Foundation wants him to keep going. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Andrea Lopez-Cruzado, engineered by Patrick Boyd and David Tatasciore, and hosted by Noel King. Donald Trump being sworn into office a year ago. Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson - Pool/Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠vox.com/today-explained-podcast.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen.

0:03.7

It's been exactly one year since Donald Trump began his second term as president of these United States.

0:09.0

And trying to recount the last 12 months is perhaps too much.

0:12.7

Here's the last 12 hours.

0:16.3

Trump's been screenshoting and sharing DM sent to him by France's president Emmanuel Macron and Mark Ruta, the head of NATO.

0:23.4

They're trying to talk Trump off his plan to acquire Greenland, something that wasn't even mentioned in his inaugural address a year ago.

0:31.0

What was immigration, crime, oil, manufacturing?

0:35.1

I will declare a national emergency at our southern border.

0:39.1

And we are going to bring law and order back to our cities.

0:43.4

We will drill, baby, drill.

0:46.9

Absent from that speech was Project 2025, this brick of policy proposals from the Conservative

0:51.8

Heritage Foundation that Trump had distanced himself from.

0:55.5

But one year in, the president has quietly met many of Project 2025's objectives. That's coming up on Today Explained.

1:03.8

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