The Heritage Foundation official leading Project 2025 is stepping down and the group is winding down its policy work due to sustained criticism from Donald Trump and his campaign. Project 2025 is a collaboration of conservative groups aiming to provide policy proposals for a future GOP administration. Many of the groups involved are staffed by former Trump administration officials.
Trump’s campaign welcomed reports of the group’s demise and warned against others trying to misrepresent their influence. Democrats have used Project 2025’s policy proposals to raise concerns about what a future Trump administration could do. Kamala Harris’ campaign stated that Project 2025 reflects Trump’s agenda, which he cannot distance himself from, and that hiding the blueprint only raises concerns.
Russ Vought, a former top aide to Trump, and Stephen Miller, a former White House adviser, have been key advisers to Project 2025. Trump has criticized the policies proposed by the group as “absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.” The Trump campaign has called Project 2025 a “grifting operation” and has been working to distance themselves from it.
Although the director of Project 2025 is stepping down, the group itself is not shutting down. It has achieved its goal of uniting conservative organizations to create a unified vision for the future. The effort to build a personnel apparatus for policymakers at all levels will continue, according to a source familiar with the group.
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