What Project 2025 really says
Think from KERA
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🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The Heritage Foundation’s policy document “Project 2025” has gotten a lot of press, but what exactly is included in this 922-page document — and is it even relevant after the Trump campaign slammed it? Andrew Prokop, senior politics correspondent at Vox, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the policy suggestions laid out in the conservative think tank’s agenda, how much of it might actually be adopted by a potential Trump administration, and the shakeup that’s happened at Heritage since its publication. His article is “Project 2025: The myths and the facts.”
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| 0:00.0 | You've heard about Project 2025, right? It is or was a carefully crafted list of recommendations pulled together by a conservative think tank called the Heritage Foundation, which, in addition |
| 0:21.2 | to ideas for what a re-elected Trump administration should do with four more years of power, |
| 0:26.7 | had been preparing potential appointees ready to carry out those ideas. Some of those proposals |
| 0:32.4 | have proved unpopular with the all-important swing voters who will likely decide this year's election. And this |
| 0:39.1 | week, the Trump campaign stated explicitly that Project 2025 does not speak for their candidate, |
| 0:45.3 | and Project 2025's director announced his resignation. From KERA in Dallas, this is think. I'm Chris |
| 0:52.8 | Boyd. It would seem like that's it, right? But Project |
| 0:56.5 | 2025's policy work always came with an expiration date. And while the Trump campaign stresses, |
| 1:02.3 | it has never taken marching orders from this or any think tank. That is not the same as saying |
| 1:07.0 | the former president doesn't agree with anything Project 2025 endorses. For one thing, |
| 1:12.5 | it was written in part by former Trump staffers, many of whom are hoping to play a role in |
| 1:17.5 | staffing a second Trump term in the White House. To get some perspective on the lingering influence |
| 1:23.1 | of Project 2025, we have invited Vox senior politics correspondent Andrew Procop, whose reporting includes the article headlined Project 2025. We have invited Vox, senior politics correspondent Andrew Procop, whose reporting |
| 1:29.6 | includes the article headlined Project 2025, The Myths and the Facts. Andrew, welcome to think. |
| 1:36.7 | Thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:38.5 | I have to say, trying to keep up with news the past few weeks has been like drinking through a fire hose, |
| 1:44.1 | and I appreciate |
| 1:44.6 | you making time for us. It is tempting to think, okay, project 2025 is shutting down operations. |
| 1:51.6 | The director is out the door. We don't need to pay attention to this. But the end of the project |
| 1:56.6 | doesn't mean the end of all those ideas contained within it for the Trump campaign. So I want to |
| 2:01.6 | start with the very basics and then drill down. First of all, how did Project 2025 come about in the |
| 2:07.4 | first place? Sure. I'll just start off by saying it's not entirely clear to me that it is |
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