Washington governor-elect announces subcommittee to combat Project 2025

Washington governor-elect Bob Ferguson, a Democrat, announced Monday that helium is creating a subcommittee successful his modulation squad that volition person the sole intent of warring Project 2025.

The modulation squad expects Project 2025 to beryllium pushed by the Trump Administration contempt President-elect Trump's efforts during his run to region himself from the arguable proposal.

Ferguson's committee volition beryllium co-chaired by Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates CEO Jennifer Allen and King County Councilmember Jorge L. Barón, who is besides a erstwhile enforcement manager of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Fox 13 reported.

"We are preparing successful lawsuit President Trump attacks Washingtonians' halfway freedoms," Ferguson said, according to the outlet. "We volition support Washington moving guardant nary substance what happens astatine the national level."

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Governor-elect Bob Ferguson gives his triumph code astatine the Washington State Democrats Election Night Watch Party astatine the Seattle Convention Center connected November 5, 2024, successful Seattle, Washington. (Getty Images)

Project 2025 is simply a arguable inaugural organized by blimpish deliberation vessel the Heritage Foundation that was authored by a fig of conservatives, including immoderate former Trump medication officials.

The inaugural offered right-wing argumentation recommendations for Trump's 2nd term, including replacing civilian work employees with Trump loyalists, abolishing the Department of Education, criminalizing pornography, eliminating DEI programs, cutting backing for Medicaid and Medicare, rejecting termination arsenic wellness care, carrying retired wide deportations and infusing the authorities with Christian values.

During his campaign, Trump had sought to region himself from the initiative, which has been criticized arsenic being an authoritarian and Christian nationalist program that would undermine civilian liberties, saying helium knew thing astir it, that parts of it are "absolutely ridiculous and abysmal" and that its backers are connected the "radical right."

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Washington governor-elect Bob Ferguson announced Monday that helium is creating a subcommittee successful his modulation squad to combat Project 2025. (Getty Images)

Former Trump officials besides told POLITICO ahead of Election Day that radical progressive successful Project 2025 would beryllium blacklisted from his administration.

But Trump has selected authors and contributors for Project 2025 to service successful his adjacent administration, including Russell Vought arsenic manager of the Office of Management and Budget, Tom Homan arsenic "border czar," Stephen Miller arsenic lawman main of argumentation and Brendan Carr arsenic seat of the Federal Communications Commission.

"This is simply a captious clip successful our federation arsenic we look to the anticipation of our communities being nether onslaught from galore antithetic directions," Allen said, according to Fox 13. "I'm honored to service connected Governor-elect Ferguson’s modulation squad and to co-chair this subcommittee to enactment his enactment successful our authorities and state successful championing and safeguarding reproductive rights and each of the rights of Washingtonians."

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump attends a viewing of the motorboat of the sixth trial formation of the SpaceX Starship rocket connected Nov. 19, 2024, successful Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

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Barón said helium is "honored to assistance Governor-elect Ferguson successful his modulation into this caller relation and to co-chair this important subcommittee," Fox 13 reported.

"As an migrant and arsenic the arrogant genitor of a trans daughter, I americium peculiarly grateful that the Governor-elect is committed to protecting each Washington authorities residents, and particularly those communities astatine top hazard of having their rights attacked by the incoming national administration," Barón continued.

Ferguson's bureau said the subcommittee volition found argumentation priorities for his archetypal 100 days successful office, according to Fox 13, though circumstantial policy proposals person not been released.