100 days in: Here's where President Trump's policies have mirrored Project 2025
He distanced himself on the campaign trail, but here's where Trump's policies align with the conservative playbook.
He distanced himself on the campaign trail, but here's where Trump's policies align with the conservative playbook.
He distanced himself on the campaign trail, but here's where Trump's policies align with the conservative playbook.
Despite distancing himself from Project 2025 on the campaign trail, there have been substantial parallels between the initiative and President Donald Trump맥스카지노s second administration.
There was a lot of conversation surrounding Project 2025 in the months leading up to the November election, largely due to its calls to significantly reduce and reshape the scope of the federal government.
At the September debate against former Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump said he had 맥스카지노nothing to do with Project 2025.맥스카지노 On his Truth Social platform, Trump also repeatedly posted about having nothing to do with Project 2025, and in a July post he called parts of it 맥스카지노ridiculous and abysmal.맥스카지노
Now, 100 days into his second administration, nearly 45% of Trump's executive orders closely mirror policy recommendations Project 2025 advocates for, according to an analysis by the Hearst Television Data Team.
Project 2025 is an initiative spearheaded by conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation that gives guidance for what policies the next conservative president should carry out. The initiative began in 2022, and its main policy guidebook 맥스카지노 the 922-page 맥스카지노Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise맥스카지노 맥스카지노 was published a year later.
In order to determine if there were overlaps between Trump administration policies and Project 2025, the Hearst Television Data Team analyzed how many executive orders align with policy recommendations in the 맥스카지노Mandate for Leadership.맥스카지노 Any executive order involving tariffs was excluded from the analysis due to Project 2025맥스카지노s conflicting recommendations on the issue.
Of the 126 non-tariff executive orders, 56 contain policy recommendations that closely mirror Project 2025.
One of the largest areas where there is overlap between Project 2025 and Trump맥스카지노s executive orders is on the issue of government reform, accountability and deregulation.
While Project 2025 does not explicitly call for the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency, it does advocate for many of the government workforce and reduction changes that Trump맥스카지노s executive orders carry out.
In his first 100 days, Trump has brought back Schedule F, making it easier to fire federal employees, eliminated DEI from the federal government, reinstated service members with backpay who were discharged under former President Joe Biden맥스카지노s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, and called for agencies to cut back on costs. All of these actions were advocated for in Project 2025.
On March 30, Trump issued an Executive Order to begin the dismantling of the Department of Education 맥스카지노 one of the policies in Project 2025 that made a lot of headlines before the election.
Trump and Project 2025 have also aligned on various policies to boost domestic energy production, strengthen immigration enforcement, and implement deregulations.
The two do differ on a couple of key issues.
Project 2025 calls for an outright ban on TikTok, citing national security risks. Trump has yet to make a final call on TikTok, but has delayed its banning in the U.S.
Project 2025 also gives conflicting advice regarding tariffs. Author Kent Lassman laid out an argument for free trade that critiqued tariffs. Author Peter Navarro 맥스카지노 who ultimately Trump hired as his senior counselor for trade and manufacturing 맥스카지노 argued for tariffs to strengthen domestic manufacturing.
While ideas are shared between Project 2025 and the executive orders Trump has signed, it is unclear the extent to which one influenced the other.
Project 2025 was created by a think tank whose aim is to influence political policy. It is just one of many similar proposals created by conservative policy groups 맥스카지노 unique largely in how it captured the media맥스카지노s attention last summer and Trump맥스카지노s claim he had 맥스카지노nothing to do with it.맥스카지노
Many authors of Project 2025 are now members of Trump맥스카지노s top team of officials.
Budget Director Russ Vought, FCC Chair Brendan Carr and Navarro were all authors of Project 2025. Additionally, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Border Czar Tom Homan, and Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins were all among the contributors to Project 2025.