Loading ...In early July, Trump said on his social media platform that he knows “nothing about Project 2025”.
“I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal,” he wrote.
“Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”
However, several people linked to the project worked in Trump’s administration or as allies in his re-election campaign.
- Project 2025 director Paul Dans was chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management under Trump
- Associate director Spencer Chretien was a former special assistant to Trump and associate director of Presidential Personnel
- Adviser Russell Vought worked in Trump’s Office of Management and Budget.
The Project 2025 document outlines four main aims: restore the family as the centrepiece of American life; dismantle the administrative state; defend the nation’s sovereignty and borders; and secure God-given individual rights to live freely.
It is one of several policy papers for a platform broadly known as Agenda 47 – so-called because Trump would be America’s 47th president if he won.
Heritage says Project 2025 was written by several former Trump appointees and reflects input from more than 100 conservative organisations.
Here’s an outline of several key proposals.