Tag Archives: Project 2025

Reuters reports: A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule capping credit card late fees at $8, after the agency agreed with opponents that the rule adopted during President Joe Biden’s administration was illegal. U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth, Texas granted a joint request by the CFPB and a coalition of …

The Associated Press reports: Governors in several Republican-led states are pressing the Trump administration to cut strings attached to their federal education money, a goal conservatives have long dreamed of that now appears within reach as President Donald Trump moves to dismantle the Education Department. Iowa put itself forward as a test case this month, asking the Education Department to …

Politico Magazine reports: A year ago, Paul Dans was chief architect of what was shaping up to be the blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term. Eight months ago, he was sent into MAGA exile. Dans was the director of Project 2025 at the Heritage Foundation when, midway through the 2024 presidential campaign, he and his program started to become a …

Politico E&E reports: President Donald Trump has long rejected climate science. Now, his administration is grappling with how to assemble a body of federal climate research to show a warming world is benefiting humanity. The claims would be highly misleading and ignore decades of scientific research that shows climate change will have increasingly dire effects. But a federal report downplaying …

Via press release from Health and Human Services: Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) took action to support President Trump’s executive orders defending women and children and restoring the concept of biological truth in federal government. “This administration is bringing back common sense and restoring biological truth to the federal government,” said HHS Secretary Robert F. …

NBC News reports: A union filed two lawsuits against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s acting director, Russell Vought, on Sunday after Vought issued a series of directives halting much of the bureau’s activity. The lawsuits were filed by the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents employees in the CFPB. The filing that centered on Vought’s email argued that a judge …

CNN reports: Russell Vought, the newly installed acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, sent an email Saturday night ordering all employees at the consumer watchdog to stop virtually all work – including fighting financial abuse. “Effective immediately, unless expressly approved by the Acting Director or required by law, all employees, contractors and other personnel of the bureau shall…cease …

USA Today reports: The Senate on Thursday confirmed Russell Vought, a key architect of Project 2025, to lead the White House Office of Management and Budget. Vought, 48, was confirmed by a vote of 53-47. He served in the same role during President Donald Trump’s first term and was responsible for overseeing the president’s budget, reviewing federal regulations and setting …

404 Media reports: Office of Personnel Management (OPM) memos sent to federal workers about firing, hiring freezes, and mandatory return to office demands were seemingly written by people who were previously employed by the Heritage Foundation and other conservative think tanks with longstanding loyalties to Trump, according to metadata on the memos posted by the government online. We know this …

The Associated Press reports: The think tank behind Project 2025, the conservative blueprint linked to President-elect Donald Trump, is launching an effort to back Trump’s imperiled selection for secretary of defense in its latest attempt to wield influence in the incoming Republican administration. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said Thursday that his group will spend $1 million to pressure senators …

Media Matters has the transcript: LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): The left is already going crazy because of Vought’s connection with Project 2025, because — look, Project 2025, to be very clear here, a lot of their ideas were just classic MAGA ideas. A lot of them were just classic. CHARLES GASPARINO (GUEST): I mean, all of them. I mean, I’ve read …

Politico reports: Donald Trump’s transition team has rejected a push to install a prominent Project 2025 author in a senior role at the Department of Health and Human Services over concerns that his strident anti-abortion views would prove too controversial. Anti-abortion groups had been lobbying Trump’s HHS secretary nominee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to select Roger Severino, a longtime anti-abortion …

The New York Times reports: President-elect Donald J. Trump on Sunday chose Brendan Carr to be chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, naming a veteran Republican regulator who has publicly agreed with the incoming administration’s promises to slash regulation, go after Big Tech and punish TV networks for political bias. Mr. Carr, who currently sits on the commission, is expected …

Axios reports: House Democrats are strategizing ways to put a damper on the Trump administration’s sweeping plans while their party still retains some control in Washington, Axios has learned. Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash) said one plan is to propose a raft of executive orders President Biden could issue to “protect existing structures,” such as shielding career civil …

The Guardian reports: A new book by the chief architect of Project 2025, a hugely controversial policy plan for a second Trump term, repeatedly employs imagery of fire and burning, including calling for rightwingers to “burn away the rot” of American institutions and organizations deemed opposed to conservative aims. The news comes after a White House address on Thursday, two …

ProPublica reports: A key ally to former President Donald Trump detailed plans to deploy the military in response to domestic unrest, defund the Environmental Protection Agency and put career civil servants “in trauma” in a series of previously unreported speeches that provide a sweeping vision for a second Trump term. In private speeches delivered in 2023 and 2024, Russell Vought, …

Rick Hutzell writes for the Baltimore Banner: You could hear the spittle fly as the Heritage Foundation shouted out its latest intellectual assault on the Naval Academy. All over Ruth Ben-Ghiat and a lecture the midshipmen likely will never hear. She’s a New York University historian with a book on what happens to the military when authoritarians take power. She …

The New York Post reports: A conservative watchdog has unveiled a list of “radical leftist” officials working in or with the Department of Homeland Security — as immigration and the crisis at the southern border remain a top issue on the ballot this presidential election. The American Accountability Foundation launched a website Wednesday titled “The DHS Watchlist” featuring over two …

The Washington Post reports: The former director of the right-wing policy and personnel blueprint known as Project 2025 is condemning what he sees as “violent rhetoric” from Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts and calling on Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance to retract the foreword he wrote for Roberts’s book. “If we’re going to ask the left to tone it down, …

“I’ll also mention this about Project 2025. The left doesn’t yet understand that that personnel database isn’t going anywhere because I’ve had a half dozen governors, as you would appreciate, come to me and say Kevin, when all of this blows over, we would love some recommendations from these 110 organizations who’ve come together to do this.” – Heritage Foundation …