Trump's First 100 Days: Project 2025 & Its Influence

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🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The Heritage Foundation's "blueprint" for a new Republican administration got a lot of attention during the 2024 presidential campaign. While candidate Donald Trump said he "had never read" the document, President Trump has incorporated many of its policies, and authors, into his administration's first 100 days.

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0:00.0	You want to follow what's happening in Washington, D.C., but you don't want to be scrolling your phone all day.
0:06.4	I'm Scott Detrow, and NPR has a podcast that can help. It's called Trump's Terms.
0:10.6	Stories about big changes the 47th president is pursuing on his own terms.
0:15.5	They're short, their focused episodes that tell you calmly, factually, what is happening and what isn't. Listen to Trump's
0:22.2	terms from NPR.
0:27.6	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. And this
0:33.2	week on the pod, we're doing something a little different, taking a look at some of the policies and
0:38.1	decisions President Trump has made in the first 100 days of his second term. And to understand
0:44.7	some of what he's done so far, we're going to start by going back to something that got a lot of
0:50.0	attention in the 2024 presidential campaign. A think tank called the Heritage Foundation made a
0:55.9	wide range of policy recommendations in what they call Project 2025. Project 2025, a 922-page book
1:04.8	filled with ideas, policy prescriptions, and blueprints for a future Republican administration.
1:12.9	And even though Donald Trump often said Project 2025 wasn't part of his campaign, like on Project 2025, I have no idea about
1:20.7	it had nothing to do with me. Project 2025, I've said a hundred times. I know nothing about it. I had nothing to do.
1:30.2	It talks about Project 2025, which I have absolutely nothing to do with. She says, I know that
1:37.3	because of the project, well, we've denied that. I have no idea what Project 225 is.
1:43.4	I've never read it, and I never will.
1:46.1	The goals it mentioned often aligned with Trump's own campaign messaging, things like
1:51.1	freezing foreign aid.
1:52.7	You let them know that effective immediately, they're no longer getting any foreign aid.
1:57.8	They're no longer getting...
1:59.0	Tightening immigration laws.
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