Vice President Kamala Harris tried to pin Project 2025, the controversial right-wing handbook for how to run the country, on Donald Trump at the debate Tuesday night as the former president attempts to distance himself.
The 922-page “Mandate for Leadership” is a manifesto written by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation providing instructions for how the next Republican administration should lead the US – by overhauling the federal government.
The plan would dramatically increase presidential control and suggests firing as many as 50,000 federal government workers to replace with loyalists of the new president — ie. Trump.
It would also shutter the US Department of Education and Homeland Security, while the Department of Health and Human Services would be forced to promote an agenda of protecting “the fundamental right to life.”
The plan also calls for the prosecution of anyone distributing abortion pills through the mail, using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to keep data on abortions and even criminalizing pornography.
Democrats repeatedly brought up Project 2025 during the Democratic National Convention, warning voters that a Trump administration would enact what they said was an extreme plan for an authoritarian government.
Project 2025 was drafted by more than two dozen former Trump administration officials among others, but the ex-president said the book has no connection to his campaign.
“I have nothing to do with Project 2025… I’m not going to read it,” Trump said.
“I know nothing about Project 2025,” Trump previously wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”
However, his running mate, JD Vance, wrote the foreword to an upcoming book by one of the Project 2025 authors and his close ally, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts.
Roberts — who previously claimed a “second American Revolution” led by Republicans is coming — has postponed the release of his book, which was set to be on shelves this month, after the Project 2025 backlash. He now plans to release it after the November election.
With Post wires
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