Project 2025 – Connections to Trump
Over the past few months, Candidate Donald Trump has tried to disavow any connection with Project 2025. This lie will not work. CBS News has researched the overlap of Trump’s campaign statements and past administration’s policies with Project 2025’s recommendations and it is clear that Project 2025 is his action plan. “CBS News’ data team extracted more than 700 specific policy proposals from Project 2025’s 922-page policy guide and compared each one to policies enacted during Trump’s first term as well as his campaign platform, rally speeches and interviews…. Within Project 2025, CBS News identified:
• At least 80 proposals that would revive executive orders and other policies of Trump’s own administration from 2017 to 2020.
• 170 proposals that match ideas Trump’s campaign has published on its campaign website or that he’s said in rally speeches and interviews.
• 21 more proposals that match both Trump’s past actions and his campaign promises and statements.
…What’s more, CBS News reviewed the work histories of the 38 named primary authors of Project 2025 and found that at least 28 of them worked in Trump’s administration. That includes the two leaders of Project 2025.” (Ref. 1)
References:
1. CBS News, “Hundreds of Proposals in Project 2025 match Trump’s policies” by
John Kelly, August 22, 2024
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/project-2025-proposals-trump-policies/