Heritage president reacts to 'Project 2025' promptly dropping from liberals' lips as DOGE takes ax to DC

FIRST ON FOX: In the vigor of the 2024 predetermination cycle, the sanction Project 2025 was connected the lips of Democrats and mainstream media figures everywhere, until it was not.

President Donald Trump’s triumph ushered successful the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its de-facto leader, Elon Musk. At the aforesaid time, Rep. Aaron Bean, R-Fla., and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, launched DOGE committees successful Congress, and Project 2025 appeared to autumn to the governmental wayside.

Trump himself repeatedly dispelled allegations helium and Project 2025 – a thousand-page argumentation connection merchandise of the blimpish Heritage Foundation – were joined astatine the governmental hip.

Meanwhile, Heritage leaders past and present, similar Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese and Heritage President Kevin Roberts, rejected claims determination has been thing extremist astir Project 2025. The quadrennial enactment has been published nether assorted titles and compositions since the 1980 statesmanlike cycle, with immoderate exceptions.

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Roberts, who wrote the foreword to Project 2025, said voters’ corporate voices ushered successful Trump and DOGE’s existent work, not needfully the argumentation proposals of Washington’s blimpish "do-tank" oregon scholars inside-the-beltway writ-large.

"The American radical delivered a wide mandate successful November: dismantle the bloated, unaccountable bureaucracy that is the Deep State. And the latest polling – a 53% support standing - confirms overwhelming enactment for President Trump’s efforts to bash conscionable that," helium said.

When asked astir liberals’ panic implicit Project 2025 and however it has been muted with the emergence of DOGE, Roberts suggested the near volition latch onto thing to marque an contented retired of it if they judge they tin marque gains.

"The Left has nary caller ideas—just unpopular ones. When they neglect to triumph connected substance, they simply take to attack. First, it was Project 2025. Now, it’s DOGE. Different name, aforesaid baseless fearmongering," Roberts said successful a Monday interview. "But marque nary mistake: the American radical are acceptable for existent change, and we’re not backing down."

Nonetheless, Project 2025 became styled arsenic a "right-wing boogeyman" talking constituent connected the left.

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Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., founded the "Stop Project 2025 Task Force" past year, comparing the task to a "Blitzkrieg" and saying that lawmakers indispensable recognize it and "prepare ourselves accordingly."

At the Democratic National Convention, some Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., and Pennsylvania authorities Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, D-Philadelphia, held up copies of Project 2025 connected stage.

"It is simply a extremist program to resistance america backwards, bankrupt the mediate class, and rise prices connected moving people families similar yours and mine," said Kenyatta, who has since been elected DNC vice president on with weapon power activistic David Hogg.

The Project’s rumored estimation became fodder for constituents astatine municipality halls arsenic well, including successful 1 swing-seat legislature contention wherever a Republican’s incredulous effect led to a viral moment, according to Politico.

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New Jersey Rep. Tom Kean Jr. was asked astir Project 2025 astatine specified an lawsuit and responded helium had ne'er work the document.

"The archetypal clip I’ve ever heard of being supportive of it was erstwhile I was accused of supporting it," Kean reportedly replied.

One of Trump and Musk’s much caller large endeavors – taking an ax to USAID – is much a task of DOGE, portion Project 2025 suggests a much measured attack to rein successful the agency’s expenditures and politicization.

That task section, authored by erstwhile bureau COO Max Primorac, describes USAID arsenic having been "deformed" by the Biden medication to prosecute a "divisive governmental and taste agenda."

Primorac suggests the adjacent medication "scale back" USAID’s planetary footprint and instrumentality it to pre-COVID fund levels portion "deradicalizing" its programs and cutting its planetary affairs accounts.

Additionally, erstwhile Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli wrote successful Project 2025 that the president should "pursue authorities to dismantle the Department of Homeland Security" and that it has not "gelled into 1 DHS" arsenic was its extremity erstwhile founded aft 9/11.

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DOGE Chair Elon Musk. (Getty)

Cuccinelli had argued that breaking up DHS on "mission[-related] lines" would pb to a much effectual authorities apparatus.

Instead, Trump and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem person expanded DHS’ relation versus the Biden administration, including the summation of erstwhile ICE acting Director Tom Homan arsenic borderline czar.

DOGE’s ruminations astir reforming oregon trimming the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) – which person enraged the likes of its proverbial "founder" Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. – were, however, mirrored successful the argumentation connection anthology.

"Elon Musk and the feline who wrote Project 2025, Russ Vought, are trying to termination the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau," Warren said Monday. "If they succeed, CEOs and Wall Street volition erstwhile again beryllium escaped to trick, trap and cheat you."

Vought did not constitute Project 2025. He was credited arsenic the writer for Chapter 2, which analyzes the enforcement bureau of the president.

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Former Chase-Manhattan Bank Vice President Robert Bowes called CFPB "highly politicized, damaging, and utterly unaccountable" successful a conception of the task helium authored.

"It is unconstitutional. Congress should abolish the CFPB and reverse Dodd–Frank Section 1061, frankincense returning the user extortion relation of the CFPB to banking regulators," Bowes wrote.

Recent media headlines person tried to necktie DOGE to the project, with captious stories headlined "Project 2025 Architect" successful notation to radical similar Vought.

Roberts said Trump’s squad should beryllium the beneficiary of specified headlines, successful that "he and his squad merit the credit" – and that it is simply a invited show that radical who embody Heritage’s guiding principles are being tapped for apical positions successful the caller administration.

"Heritage is thrilled to spot President Trump name truthful galore hardworking patriots who enactment America First. Russ is 1 of the large statesmen of our age—a brilliant, principled person with the imaginativeness and intellect to instrumentality connected ‘The Swamp’ and win."

"Between Russ astatine the helm of OMB and Elon astatine the helm of DOGE, they volition rein successful wasteful spending, reconstruct fiscal discipline, and guarantee that our authorities serves the people—not the different mode around."