Here is a little primer on Project 2025 for those who need it:

The Heritage Foundation (a major conservative think-tank) produced a 900 page manifesto as a guidebook for the Republican nominee to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power. Major donors to Heritage include Coors, Walmart and ExxonMobil.

Trump says he knows “nothing about” it and that he has “no idea who is behind it.” Trump is of course a liar. Project 2025’s tentacles reach into all levels of the conservative movement.

31 of the 38 people who directly wrote or edited the project served in Trump’s administration or transition.

Main policy points of Project 2025 include:

– Rejecting the idea of abortion as health care.
– Targeting political enemies using presidential powers.
– Deploying the military “to assist in arrest operations” along the U.S.-Mexico border and to remove any and all “immigration violators” from the country (mass deportations).
– Disbanding the Commerce department.
– Disbanding the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Right
– Disbanding the Education department.
– Erasing the Justice Department’s independence from the president.
– Removing civil-service protections.
– Recruiting and training thousands of MAGA loyalists to fill federal government positions.
– Limiting the work of NOAA and the National Weather Service because they are “one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.”
– Imposing sweeping tariffs on imported goods.
– Calls for criminalizing pornography.

At least 140 people who worked in the Trump administration also had a hand in the project including Trump’s former Cabinet secretaries, top White House officials, senior aides and advisors, and Trump appointees to the EPA, the Interior Department and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Most of these people will likely serve in prominent roles in Trump’s next administration.

Here are some of the contributors to Project 2025:

Kevin Roberts (head of Heritage who Trump praised on stage in-person saying Kevin is “doing an unbelievable job”. Kevin recently said “We are in the process of the second American Revolution,” that “will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”)
Russell T. Vought (current RNC policy director and Trump’s former budget director)
Brendan Carr (current FCC Commissioner who Trump appointed in 2017)
Mark Meadows (Trump’s former chief of staff)
Stephen Miller (Trump’s former senior White House advisor and speechwriter)
Peter Navarro (Trump’s former Deputy Assistant and adviser who went to prison for contempt of Congress for J6)
Ken Cuccinelli (Trump’s former Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security)
Ben Carson (Trump’s former Secretary HUD)
Mandy Gunasekara (Trump’s chief of staff at the EPA)
Bernard McNamee (Trump’s former appointee to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)
Perry Pendley (Trump’s former Interior official)
John McEntee (Trump’s former White House personnel chief)
Paul Dans (Trump’s former White House official)
Frank Wuco (Trump’s former White House adviser)
Michael Pack (appointed by Trump to the US Agency for Global Media where he orchestrated a mass firing)
Lisa Correnti (anti-abortion advocate Trump appointed as a delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women)
David Legates (former NOAA official investigated for posting dubious climate research with the White House imprint)
Mari Stull (former Trump administrator who left after accusations of hunting for disloyal State Department employees)

The RNC and Trump’s formal policy plan platform dubbed Agenda 47, although more sparse, overlaps with Project 2025 on most major policy issues. The last RNC policy in 2016 was 66 pages of dense policy goals, Agenda 47, at just 16 pages consists mostly of short bullet points, typed in all-caps (a Trump trademark), vowing to do things like seal the border and stop the “migrant invasion”. Trump himself rarely mentions Agenda47 by name on the campaign trail.