Tell ABC: Expose Trump's Project 2025 Connections at the Next Debate
Trump’s Project 2025 is a threat to American public education. It’s time that he’s pressed on it during the next presidential debate.
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The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 represents a radical vision for reshaping our government—yet Donald Trump claims to known nothing about it, despite his entrenched connections with its top operatives. Among its most explicit promises, the agenda pledges to permanently shut down the federal Department of Education. We’re partnering with the National Campaign for Justice, Blue Future, and the Democracy for America Action Fund to call on ABC to question Trump on his Project 2025 connections during the next debate. Join us today and sign on alongside more than 10,000 other Americans.
CNN has reported that at least 140 people involved in Project 2025 worked for Trump, including senior advisor Steven Miller, HUD Secretary Ben Carson, and convicted felon Peter Navarro. Trump even took a private flight with Kevin Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation—which authored Project 2025—in 2022.
At a Heritage Foundation event, Trump praised the organization for "lay[ing] the groundwork and detail[ing] plans for exactly what our movement will do... when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America." His running mate JD Vance wrote the foreword to Roberts' upcoming book, originally titled Burning Down Washington to Save America.
The connections between Trump and Project 2025 go far beyond personnel and into policy. While Trump insists some Project 2025 ideas are "ridiculous and abysmal," they mirror the Agenda47 platform and the rhetoric in his stump speeches for more than a year.
It's the detailed roadmap for dismantling our democratic institutions. Their policy proposals align closely on issues like education, immigration, healthcare, and using the Department of Justice to target political opponents.
Both call for abolishing the Department of Education, drastically reducing the federal workforce, deploying the National Guard against protesters. The plan calls for withdrawing FDA approval for the abortion pill mifepristone, restricting access to contraceptives, slashing corporate taxes while gutting social programs, and abolishing the Department of Education while pushing "patriotic education."
It proposes firing thousands of career civil servants and replacing them with political loyalists, imposing a "biblically based definition of marriage and families," and placing independent agencies like the Justice Department under direct White House control and refocusing DOJ’s mission to target political opponents.
The public deserves to know which aspects he supports and which he rejects. We're calling on ABC to demand clear answers from Trump during the next debate on these questions:
Will you clearly reject anyone involved in the creation of Project 2025 from serving as an advisor, Cabinet member, or head of an agency in a second Trump administration?
Project 2025 includes a plan to fire thousands of career agency professionals and experts throughout the government and replace them regardless of their experience with people only loyal to you. The Heritage Foundation says it has already recruited more than 20,000 people to fill these roles.
Can you tell us which aspects of Project 2025 are "absolutely ridiculous and abysmal" and how they different than what you plan to do?
The American people have a right to know how this extremist agenda could dismantle our democracy, strip away civil liberties, and obliterate hard-won gains in environmental protection and social justice.
