One of the Left’s favorite bogeymen is winding down its work — and former President Donald Trump’s campaign is not upset about it.
On Tuesday, Project 2025 announced it was ending its policy work, and its leader was stepping down. The Washington Post explains that the project was “a collaboration led by the Heritage Foundation among more than 110 conservative groups to develop a movement consensus blueprint for the next Republican administration.”
“The Heritage Foundation also recently distributed new talking points encouraging participants to emphasize that the project does not speak for Trump,” the Post added.
The move comes as the Democrats have sought to cast the policy and staffing proposals as the positions of the Trump campaign to drum up fear about a potential second Trump administration.
And now that the project is ending, the former president’s campaign is making clear it is not upset. It appears to be gloating.
“President Trump’s campaign has been very clear for over that Project 2025 had nothing to do with the campaign, did not speak for the campaign, and should not be associated with the campaign or the President in any way,” the statement read.
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It added, “Reports of Project 2025’s demise would be greatly welcomed and should serve as notice to anyone or any group trying to misrepresent their influence with President Trump and his campaign — it will not end well for you.”
The Post notes, ‘Trump senior adviser Susie Wiles repeatedly called Heritage leaders instructing them to stop promoting Project 2025. She and Trump strategist Chris LaCivita repeatedly wrote public statements disavowing the project, and then Trump started saying so in his own social media posts. More recently, LaCivita has started saying that people involved in.”
However, it added there were some areas of policy overlap:
“Both Trump and Project 2025 have proposed eliminating the Department of Education and reversing President Biden’s student loan relief program. Both have said they want to reintroduce a policy change to weaken tenure protections for career civil servants and tighten White House supervision of the Justice Department and other agencies. Both have proposed large-scale immigration raids and repealing temporary protections for migrants from unsafe countries. Both proposed ending affirmative action and rolling back Biden administration environmental regulations.”
In remarks earlier this week, President Joe Biden tried to link Project 2025 to Republicans as he said it is an “extreme movement and agenda.” He added, “For example, Project 2025 calls [for] aggressively attacking diversity, equity, and inclusion all across all aspects of American life. This extreme MAGA movement even proposes to end birthright citizenship. That’s how far they’ve come — end birthright citizenship, which if you’re born in America, you’re an American citizen. That’s how extreme these guys are.”
Despite Biden’s assertion that Trump was pushing the Proejct 2025 agenda, he has been disavowing it for weeks.
