PRESS RELEASE Contact: press@congressionalintegrity.org
For Immediate Release
Date: October 22, 2024
Washington, D.C. – A new analysis by the New York Times detailed the many ways Donald Trump and his MAGA House Republican allies are tied to the radical Project 2025 agenda. In response, Congressional Integrity Project communications director, Nicole Haley, issued the following statement:
“Denying a connection to Project 2025 is just another one of Donald Trump’s stream of lies. Congressional Republicans have wasted their entire time in the majority acting as an arm of the Trump campaign to help elect Trump president and enact their radical Project 2025 agenda. Jim Jordan, James Comer, and their MAGA House cronies will stop at nothing to use their official Congressional resources to pursue this radical agenda, working hand in hand with their leader, Donald Trump.”
Read the article below:
New York Times: The Many Links Between Project 2025 and Trump’s World
By Elena Shao and Ashley Wu // October 22, 2024
Former president Donald J. Trump has repeatedly claimed that he had nothing to do with Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s conservative policy initiative to reshape the federal government. Mr. Trump has said that he has not read its proposals and does not know who is behind it. But Project 2025 has numerous ties to Mr. Trump and his campaign, a New York Times analysis has found.
The people behind Project 2025 are no strangers to the former president. The Heritage Foundation’s president, Kevin D. Roberts, and a co-founder, Edwin J. Feulner, have each personally met with Mr. Trump. And the analysis of the Project 2025 playbook and its 307 authors and contributors revealed that well over half of them had been in Mr. Trump’s administration or on his campaign or transition teams.
Large portions of the “Mandate for Leadership,” the driving document behind Project 2025, were written by longtime Trump loyalists who were advisers to Mr. Trump during his first term.
Read the full article here.