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The Lever: Trump's First Orders Parrot Project 2025 Manifesto He Disavowed
Link: https://www.levernews.com/trumps-first-orders-parrot-project-2025-manifesto-he-disavowed/
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On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump signed a blizzard of executive orders on everything from the environment to immigration — and nearly two thirds of them came straight from Project 2025, the sweeping corporate-backed policy blueprint that Trump lambasted during his 2024 presidential campaign.
Of the 26 formal executive orders Trump signed on Monday, 16 mirrored at least in part proposals from the Heritage Foundation’s 900-page Project 2025 to reshape the federal government, according to an analysis by The Lever. That includes orders that withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Accords, end Biden’s electric vehicle mandates, and increase oil and gas drilling in Alaska — all proposals that first appeared in Project 2025 months earlier.
In 2024, Democrats linked Trump to Project 2025 during the presidential campaign, noting that more than 140 former Trump administration employees worked on the policy agenda released in April 2023 and that Trump’s running mate, former Ohio Sen. JD Vance, had been boosting the project’s leader. Trump quickly distanced himself from Project 2025, claiming he had “nothing to do with” it and declaring that “some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.”
Many of the new executive orders, however, seem torn straight from the pages of Project 2025. Some roll back previous executive orders issued by former President Joe Biden that aimed to combat climate change or improve diversity and equity in the federal government. Others reinstate executive orders from the first Trump administration.
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Of the 26 formal executive orders Trump signed on Monday, 16 mirrored at least in part proposals from the Heritage Foundation’s 900-page Project 2025 to reshape the federal government, according to an analysis by The Lever. That includes orders that withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Accords, end Biden’s electric vehicle mandates, and increase oil and gas drilling in Alaska — all proposals that first appeared in Project 2025 months earlier.
In 2024, Democrats linked Trump to Project 2025 during the presidential campaign, noting that more than 140 former Trump administration employees worked on the policy agenda released in April 2023 and that Trump’s running mate, former Ohio Sen. JD Vance, had been boosting the project’s leader. Trump quickly distanced himself from Project 2025, claiming he had “nothing to do with” it and declaring that “some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.”
Many of the new executive orders, however, seem torn straight from the pages of Project 2025. Some roll back previous executive orders issued by former President Joe Biden that aimed to combat climate change or improve diversity and equity in the federal government. Others reinstate executive orders from the first Trump administration.
This has everything to do with Chump's billionaire buddies who bought him the Presidency. Please read the rest on today's "The Lever."
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