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Paul Dans:
Former Director, 2025 Presidential Transition Project
Paul was Director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project at The Heritage Foundation.
https://www.heritage.org/staff/paul-dans
The Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans
by Alec MacGillis, propublica.org — Aug. 1, 2024
https://www.propublica.org/article/project-2025-trump-campaign-heritage-foundation-paul-dans
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The most important pillar of Project 2025 has always been about personnel, not policy. Or rather, the whole effort is animated by the Reagan-era maxim that personnel is policy, that power flows from having the right people in the right jobs. To that end, the plan’s most pertinent proposal is reinstating Schedule F [...] — defining the new employment category so broadly that it could encompass far more than 50,000 positions. “It will be a purge,” she said.
This was what [Paul] Dans wanted the Heritage staffers gathered in the room and the tech engineers they’d contracted from Oracle to build: the engine of Trump 2.0. It would be a personnel machine not only far beyond what the first Trump administration had at its disposal, but beyond what any other administration had enjoyed, either. According to one person in attendance, the database would take several months to build and would cost upward of $2 million. It would reach outside the usual channels to draw in MAGA believers from across the country. And Dans was at the helm. “There was no one who had a better idea of it than he did,” the person in attendance told me. “He was driving the whole thing.”
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Donald Devine, who led OPM during the Reagan administration and whom the Trump administration had brought on as an adviser during this period [...] — Dans’ only problem, Devine said, was that he ran out of time. “The major things were going to be done the next term,” he said. “It was too late to do anything before they figured out how to run personnel.” [OPM]
After the election, Dans stayed hard at work at OPM, even as other appointees started to vanish in the final weeks of the Trump administration. Since then, Dans has criticized prosecutions of those involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. “The unfortunate thing is it does send a message to people that you shouldn’t criticize the government,” he said in a C-SPAN interview last year.
[… MANY other useful insights from ProPublica ...]
Project 2025 Leader Confesses Deep Trump Ties in Damning Interview
by Hafiz Rashid, newrepublic.com — September 10, 2024
https://newrepublic.com/post/185765/project-2025-leader-paul-dans-trump-ties-interview
Speaking to Kaitlan Collins on The Source, the project’s former director, Paul Dans, admitted that he’s visited Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate several times and has spoken with Trump’s campaign staff there, including the campaign’s co-chair Susie Wiles.
Trump has tried desperately to distance himself and his campaign from the conservative Project 2025 manifesto, with little success. Collins pressed Dans, pointing out that six of Trump’s Cabinet members contributed to the document, along with some of Trump’s advisers, such as Peter Navarro and Johnny McEntee.
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The project’s agenda items include everything from the dismantling of government agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency, to the implementation of national abortion bans and contraception restrictions. Trump has influenced the project, and his running mate, J.D. Vance, also has extensive connections to it, even writing the foreword to a book by one of the plan’s architects, Kevin Roberts. Project 2025 has become an effective attack line by Democrats, who have successfully pointed out that it’s a Republican wish list with disturbing aims.
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Where Trump policies and Project 2025 proposals match up
by Melissa Quinn, CBSnews.com -- February 3, 2025
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-project-2025-playbook/
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Project 2025's sweeping book of policy proposals calls for "reforming FEMA emergency spending to shift the majority of preparedness and response costs to states and localities instead of the federal government."
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Project 2025's book also calls on Congress to end preparedness grants for states and localities.
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Project 2025's policy book calls for the next conservative president to delete a variety of terms, including DEI, abortion and gender equality "from every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists."
Project 2025's chapter on the Department of Health and Human Services calls for its Office of Civil Rights to "remove all guidance issued under the Biden administration concerning sexual orientation and gender identity," including the March 2022 document. [...] It also calls for the "DEI apparatus" at a variety of agencies to be dismantled.
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Project 2025 also proposed stripping former intelligence officials of security clearances, in a section on the intelligence community authored by Dustin Carmack, who worked at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence during Mr. Trump's first term.
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Project 2025 suggests a "freeze on all top career-position hiring to prevent 'burrowing-in' by outgoing political appointees."
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Project 2025 repeatedly calls for Mr. Trump's Schedule F proposal to be reinstated.
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The chapter of Project 2025's blueprint that covers the Department of Homeland Security was authored by Ken Cuccinelli, who served in the first Trump administration, and it, too, sees a role for the Defense Department in securing the U.S.-Mexico border.
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All those draconian, anti-democracy Executive Orders have to be coming from somewhere …
Isn’t about time the American People knew where?
Nowhere in the Project 2025 Playbook do they address lowering the price of rent and eggs.
Because what in the hell does that have to do with “dismantling of government agencies” and other such far-right ideological Agenda’s priorities?
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PS. The Billionaire-class makes its living off of desperate underpaid workers. Always has, always will ...
Just call it, their not-so secret, in-your-face, fork-off America secret …
Otherwise known as their bald-face LIES …
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Per the Washington Post:
Project 2025, Heritage Foundation? I never heard of them!
“Trump took a private flight with Project 2025 leader Kevin Roberts, in 2022.”
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I call BS — on the claims of NO Trump-Project 2025 connections.
Many more should do so as well.
Before it’s too late.
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