"Project 2025, never an official Trump platform, was built by some Trump allies and echoes moves from the early days of Trump's second presidency. Some of Trump's MAGA allies called Project 2025 the next-term agenda after Trump's win. Driving the news: Trump said Tuesday he planned to meet with Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, to discuss agency cuts amid the government shutdown."
""I have nothing to do with Project 2025," Trump said during a contentious presidential debate with Kamala Harris last year. "That's out there. I haven't read it. I don't want to read it, purposely. I'm not going to read it," he said. At a campaign rally in July 2024, Trump called the plan "seriously extreme" and was conceived by people on the "severe right.""
Project 2025 was built by some Trump allies and echoes moves from the early days of Trump's second presidency. Some MAGA allies described it as the next-term agenda after Trump's win. Trump planned to meet with Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, to discuss agency cuts amid the government shutdown and identified Vought as "of Project 2025 fame." Vought was a co-architect of the Heritage Foundation initiative, widely seen as a roadmap for Trump's agenda. Trump repeatedly distanced himself during the 2024 campaign, saying he had nothing to do with Project 2025 and that he had not and would not read it. Project 2025 proposes a significant expansion of executive branch power and increased control over the federal bureaucracy.
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