Who could have guessed? Lol.
President Donald Trump is now openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign
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President Donald Trump is openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign, as one of its architects works to use the government shutdown
to accelerate his goals of slashing the size of the federal workforce and punishing Democratic states.
In a post on his Truth Social site Thursday morning, Trump announced he would be meeting with his budget chief, “Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent.”
The comments represented a dramatic about-face for Trump, who spent much of last year denouncing Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation's
massive proposed overhaul of the federal government, which was drafted by many of his longtime allies and current and former administration officials.
Both of Trump's Democratic rivals, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, made the far-right wish list a centerpiece of their campaigns, and a giant replica of the book featured prominently onstage at the Democratic National Convention.
“Donald Trump and his stooges lied through their teeth about Project 2025, and now he’s running the country straight into it,” said Ammar Moussa, a former spokesperson for both campaigns. “There’s no comfort in being right — just anger that we’re stuck with the consequences of his lies.”
Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management and Budget under Biden, said the administration had clearly been following the project's blueprint all along.
“I guess Democrats were right, but that doesn’t make me feel better,” she said. “I'm angry that this is happening after being told that this document was not going to be the centerpiece of this administration.”
Asked about Trump’s reversal, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said, “Democrats are desperate to talk about anything aside from their decision to hurt the American people by shutting down the government.”……
……..Trump
repeatedly insisted he knew nothing about the group or who was behind it, despite his close ties with many of its authors. They included John McEntee, his former director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office, and Paul Dans, former chief of staff at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
“I know nothing about Project 2025,” Trump
insisted in July 2024. “I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”
Trump’s campaign chiefs
were equally critical.
“President Trump’s campaign has been very clear for over a year that Project 2025 had nothing to do with the campaign, did not speak for the campaign, and should not be associated with the campaign or the President in any way,” wrote Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita in a campaign memo. They added, “Reports of Project 2025’s demise would be greatly welcomed and should serve as notice to anyone or any group trying to misrepresent their influence with President Trump and his campaign — it will not end well for you.”
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Sure sounds like Trump lied about Project 2025. Yep, Trump knew nothing about Project 2025. I have a nice bridge to sell, if you ever, for one second, believed that.
That’s why Russ Vought is director of the Office of Management and Budget, OMB, the largest office in the Executive branch, with the responsibility of enacting Trump’s agenda across the Executive branch.
And Russ Vought was one of the chief architect’s of Project 2025.
Russ Vought is the face of the Trump shutdown. Speaker Mike Johnson said Vought does not enjoy the task ahead of deciding which agencies to slash, who’s going to lose their jobs, etc.
But, Sen. Mike Lee said Vought “has been waiting for this moment since puberty”!
Really? Waiting to deconstruct the administrative state since he was a child? Lol. And here we were told Trump knew nothing about Project 2025. It’s no joke.
This is the face of Project 2025.
This is the face of the Shutdown, and all the damage Trump plans to inflict will be this guy’s job to implement.
It was all about Project 2025 all along. And here comes the main offensive.
Led by the man who said he “wants to put federal workers into trauma”.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlMjHJXP-0w