Tell ABC: Expose Trump's Project 2025 Connections at the Next Debate

Project 2025 represents a radical vision for reshaping our government, one that Donald Trump claims to know nothing about. Yet the evidence shows otherwise.

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 too. While he insists some Project 2025 ideas are "ridiculous and abysmal," they mirror the Agenda47 platform from the Trump campaign website 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 these clear answers from Trump during the next debate.

  1. You've claimed to have no connection to Project 2025. Yet CNN reports that at least 140 people connected to it worked for you, including senior advisor Steven Miller, HUD Secretary Ben Carson, and convicted felon Peter Navarro. You took Kevin Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation which authored Project 2025 on your private plane, and publicly stated that the Heritage Foundation was "going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do... when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America" and your VP running mate JD Vance wrote the foreword to Roberts' new book which outlines a vision for what its publisher calls a "Second American Revolution."

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?

  1. 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.

To show the American people that you are serious about rejecting Project 2025, will you commit to not hiring anyone recruited by the Heritage Foundation for any role in your administration, including civil servants?

  1. You have claimed that Agenda47 on your campaign website is your vision for America's future and not Project 2025, because "Some of the things they're saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal." Yet, both platforms significantly overlap on everything from Education, Immigration, and Healthcare to deploying the National Guard against protesters and refocusing the Department of Justice on your political enemies as well as many other policies.

Can you tell us which aspects of Project 2025 are "absolutely ridiculous and abysmal" and how is it 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.

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