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Thank you M]\/b for your comment<\/a> about Project 2025, and what the Heritage Foundation is trying to accomplish. It was on my mind to post this next, so your comment was very timely.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Project 2025 is also known as the Presidential Transition Project<\/a>. If you don’t already know, The Heritage Foundation<\/a>\u00a0is closely aligned with Trump and coordinates the initiative with a constellation of conservative groups run by Trump allies. Project 2025’s advisory board initially consisted of “a broad coalition of over 80 conservative organizations”\u2014mainly conservative\u00a0think tanks<\/a>, as well as several universities and the magazine\u00a0The American Conservative<\/a><\/em>. By February 2024, the project had over 100 partner organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Below is a little more info from BBC.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project 2025: A wish list for a Trump presidency, explained<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

2 days ago<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Mike Wendling, BBC NewsShare<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Joe Biden’s Democrats are mobilising against a possible governing agenda for Donald Trump if he is elected this November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The blueprint, called Project 2025 and produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation, is one of several think-tank proposals for Trump\u2019s platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over more than 900 pages, it calls for sacking thousands of civil servants, expanding the power of the president, dismantling the Department of Education and other federal agencies, and sweeping tax cuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Heritage Foundation unveiled its agenda in April 2023, and liberal opposition ramped up as former President Trump has taken a lead in polls after President Biden’s poor debate performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early this July, Heritage president Kevin Roberts raised the prospect of political violence during a podcast interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are in the process of the second American revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be,\u201d Mr Roberts told the War Room podcast, founded by Trump adviser Steve Bannon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The remarks prompted the Biden campaign to accuse Trump and his allies of “dreaming of a violent revolution to destroy the very idea of America”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The comments have refocused attention on Project 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is common for Washington think-tanks to propose policy wishlists for potential governments-in-waiting. The liberal Center for American Progress, for example, was dubbed Barack Obama\u2019s \u201cideas factory\u201d during his presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What has Trump said about Project 2025?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In early July, Trump said on his social media platform that he knows “nothing about Project 2025\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they\u2019re saying and some of the things they\u2019re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal,” he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, several people linked to the project worked in Trump’s administration or as allies in his re-election campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n