Donald Trump’s Project 2025 Ties

Russell Vought was Donald Trump’s acting director of the Office of Management and Budget. He is also the founder of the Center for Renewing America, a group that was involved in the creation of Project 2025. Vought authored the sections on consolidating executive power. He was also the policy director for the Republican National Committee’s platform committee that created the party’s platform for this year’s convention.

Paul Dans is considered one of the key architects of Project 2025 and was, until recently, the director of the project at The Heritage Foundation. He has publicly stated that he has visited Mar-a-Lago multiple times and that he had conversations with members of Trump’s campaign staff about policy.

John McEntee is a senior adviser to Project 2025, and he was also an adviser to Trump at the White House. He has stated several times that he is working to integrate Project 2025 with the Trump campaign.

Ben Carson is a former Cabinet member who was secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and he authored the chapter on that department.

Christopher Miller was acting secretary of defense under Trump, and he wrote the chapter on the Department of Defense.

Brendan Carr was appointed commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under Trump, a position he continues to hold, and he authored the section on changes to the FCC.

Ken Cuccinelli was a senior official under Trump who served as the acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and he wrote the chapter on DHS.

Peter Navarro, who was convicted and went to prison due to his refusal to cooperate with the investigation into the Jan. 6 attack, wrote the chapter on trade policy, including tariffs.

This is just a drop in the bucket of all of the many individuals connected to Trump and Project 2025.

There also are numerous conservative organizations listed as having an advisory role. Many of Trump’s closest allies are with those organizations.

Mark Meadows was Trump’s chief of staff, and he currently leads the Conservative Partnership Institute, a Project 2025 advisory board member.

Stephen Miller, a longtime Trump adviser, responsible for much of Trump’s horrific immigration policies, is the founder of America First Legal, one of the organizations listed until it requested to be removed this past summer.

Several lawyers who have worked with Trump are connected with the organizations that advised the Heritage Foundation, including Jay Sekulow, John Eastman and Cleta Mitchell.

But you don’t even have to read all of that—all you have to do is listen to Trump’s own words. At a 2022 Heritage Foundation dinner, Trump said: “This is a great group, and they’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do, and what your movement will do when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America.”

Project 2025 is Trump’s agenda. His guys created it, and he owns it. Don’t let him fool you.