This Project 2025 architect is urging Republicans to be 'fearless' with far-right agenda

Donald Trump and his campaign team have made a concerted effort to distance the former president from Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's far-right 900-page blueprint for a second Trump Administration. The former president's 2024 campaign has even said that Project 2025's "demise would be greatly welcomed."

But Trump's critics, including President Joe Biden and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, have been attacking Trump's recent anti-Project 2025 rhetoric as disingenuous — often emphasizing that the plan was designed by Trump's close allies.

One of those allies is Christian nationalist Russell Vought, who served as director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during Trump's presidency.

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In an article published on August 5, the Associated Press' Richard Lardner notes that Vought has encouraged MAGA Republicans to be "fearless" in pushing the Project 2025 agenda.

"If former President Donald Trump wins a second term in November," Lardner explains, "Vought may get the opportunity to go on the offensive. A chief architect of Project 2025 — the controversial conservative blueprint to remake the federal government — Vought is likely to be appointed to a high-ranking post in a second Trump Administration."

Vought, according to Lardner, has been putting together a "180-Day Transition Playbook" for implementing Project 2025 quickly if Trump returns to the White House in January 2025. And he is being mentioned as a possible White House chief of staff.

"Led by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, Project 2025 is a detailed 920-page handbook for governing under the next Republican administration," Lardner notes. "A whirlwind of hard-right ambitions, its proposals range from ousting thousands of civil servants and replacing them with Trump loyalists to reversing the Food and Drug Administration's approval of medications used in abortions."

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The AP reporter adds, "Democrats, for months, have been using Project 2025 to hammer Trump and other Republicans, arguing to voters that it represents the former president’s true — and extreme — agenda."

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Read the full Associated Press article at this link.