Year In Review: The Impact Of Project 2025
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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This episode: political correspondent Ashley Lopez, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Miles Parks. We're almost to the end of 2025, and it has been a tough year for NPR and for local stations. |
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| 1:00.1 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Ashley Lopez. I cover politics. I'm Frank Ordonez. I cover the White House. And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. |
| 1:04.9 | And today on the show, we want to revisit Project 2025 and check in on whether it's had the impact on the Trump administration people |
| 1:11.7 | thought it would. Franco, it's been a while since we talked about this. So can you remind folks, |
| 1:16.1 | like, what is or was Project 2025? Yeah, it was kind of this, you know, multi-pronged transition |
| 1:22.6 | and waiting for the next presidency, a conservative presidency. It was put together by some of Trump's closest |
| 1:28.7 | allies from his first presidency and, you know, kind of organized by the Heritage Foundation, |
| 1:34.2 | a conservative think tank. Now, those prongs included a call for young conservatives, |
| 1:39.4 | kind of a hiring service. It was described at some point like a conservative LinkedIn. |
| 1:43.9 | There was also a training program. There was also a training |
| 1:45.2 | program. There was also many, many pre-written executive orders that Trump could roll out on day |
| 1:51.3 | one, many of which he did. And most notably and most controversially, there was this 922 page |
| 1:58.6 | blueprint for the next Republican president with the primary goal of expanding executive |
| 2:04.8 | power. It was really this wish list of conservative policies for that conservative president, |
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