Understanding Project 2025 -- and how it could shape a Trump second term

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

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Summary

The Republican National Convention convention wrapped up last night with a speech from Donald Trump that lasted more than 90 minutes. It capped a week that was heavy on rhetoric, short on specifics.

Enter Project 2025. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a document created by the conservative Heritage Foundation that lays out a vision for the next Republican president.

“Project 2025 has gotten a lot of attention,” says Andrew Prokop, a senior political correspondent at Vox. He notes that Democrats in particular point to it as “a stand in for a lot of Trump’s extreme plans for dictatorship.”

Though Trump has distanced himself from the document, experts say much – or even most of its proposals will likely be on the agenda for a possible second Trump term.

Andrew Prokop joined Diane to talk about the myths and the facts about Project 2025.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Diane, on my mind. What's in Project 2025? If you haven't heard it's a document created by the Conservative Heritage Foundation that lays
0:21.8	out a vision for the next Republican president.
0:25.0	Though Donald Trump has distanced himself from the plan,
0:30.0	experts say much or most of its proposals will likely be on the agenda for a second Trump
0:38.7	term.
0:39.7	There's a variety of things that in their view could be done from, you know, moderately disruptive to extremely disruptive to the functioning of government.
0:51.0	That's Andrew Prokop.
0:53.0	He's a senior politics correspondent for a box.
0:58.0	We spoke Friday morning. Andrew, there's been a great deal of talk, at least from Democrats about Project 2025,
1:17.8	which Donald Trump has said he had nothing to do with it came from the Heritage Foundation.
1:27.0	Can you help us understand what Project 2025 actually is.
1:35.0	I think of Project 2025 as basically the conservative movements, very detailed and specific plan for what they want the next
1:47.2	Republican president, who they hope will be Donald Trump, to do in power. And it's not one of these you know these vague pie in the sky
1:57.3	agendas with all sorts of things they can't really ever get done. It's very specific and very focused on the power
2:07.0	of the executive branch and what executive branch appointees
2:11.0	could do. It's a long document more than 900 pages long that has
2:17.0	dozens of different chapters that each focus on a different agency in the federal government.
2:24.3	And each of these chapters has a different author.
2:27.6	A majority of these authors actually served
2:30.4	in the Trump administration and are likely to be front runners for posts in the next Trump administration.
2:39.6	So these are clearly people who are influential and important in the conservative movement.
2:45.3	They have a good shot at actually putting their agenda into practice if Trump wins.
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