As a 2024 presidential candidate, Donald Trump sought to distance himself from Project 2025, a blueprint for reshaping the federal government by the conservative nonprofit The Heritage Foundation.

When the Heritage Foundation published a 920-page compendium of policy suggestions called “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise” in April 2023, it did so to little fanfare. By fall 2024, ...

During Donald Trump's second presidential term, his administration not only enacted many policy recommendations that aligned with the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 but it also hired several ...

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