https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/trump-no-longer-distancing-himself-040016714.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“\u201cI know nothing about Project 2025,\u201d Trump insisted in July 2024. \u201cI have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they\u2019re saying and some of the things they\u2019re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s campaign chiefs were equally critical.<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
Trump has since gone on to stock his second administration with its authors, including Vought, \u201cborder czar\u201d Tom Homan, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, immigration hard-liner Stephen Miller and Brendan Carr, who wrote Project 2025\u2019s chapter on the Federal Communications Commission and now chairs the panel.<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
Since his swearing in, Trump has been pursuing plans laid out in Project 2025 to dramatically expand presidential power and reduce the size of the federal workforce. They include efforts like the Department of Government Efficiency and budget rescission packages, which have led to billions of dollars being stalled, scrapped or withheld by the administration so far this year.<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
In a post on his Truth Social site Thursday morning, Donald Trump announced he would be meeting with his budget chief, \u201cRuss 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
The comments represented a dramatic about-face for Trump”<\/p>\n
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