Project 2025 backers are infesting Trump's next administration
During the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump claimed to know nothing about Project 2025—the deeply unpopular roadmap for a second Trump term created by the right-wing Heritage Foundation.
“I have nothing to do with Project 2025,” Trump said at the only debate he had with Vice President Kamala Harris, trying to distance himself from the plan that calls for banning medication abortion and purging the federal government of anyone not deemed sufficiently loyal to Trump, among other things. “I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it purposely. I’m not going to read it.”
But now, over a month since Trump’s unfortunate victory, he's nominated at least seven people who either directly contributed to the document or who promoted it, according to a Daily Kos review—with more Project 2025 contributors rumored to be on the short list for other positions.
This breaks a promise from Trump’s transition co-chair Howard Lutnick, now Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Commerce. Lutnick said there would be no Project 2025 people in a second Trump administration.
“Heritage, because of Project 2025, is radioactive,” Lutnick told the New York Post the night of the vice presidential debate. “As in, none, zero, radioactive. So that’s a clear position.”
But now that Trump won, he is installing Project 2025 contributors and promoters to roles such as director of the CIA, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, ambassador to Canada, and border czar, to name a few.
And let’s not forget JD Vance, who wrote the foreword to a book by the head of Project 2025.
Here are the other Project 2025 contributors and promoters Trump has chosen for his administration.