Democrats go all in against Project 2025 with billboard campaign to link Trump to controversial plan

Democrats are pressing ahead in an uncertain political moment and seizing what they see as an opportunity: Donald Trump’s attempt to distance himself from a blueprint for a narrowing of the federal government that would eliminate major agencies like the Department of Education.

With president Joe Biden vowing to stay in the race amid calls from his own party to quit and the Republican nominating convention on the calendar next week, Democrats are sharpening a line of attack against a policy agenda laid out by conservative groups and personalities including many with direct ties to Trump’s first term in the White House.

The so-called Project 2025 is a collaborative effort with input from over 100 conservative organizations led by the Heritage Foundation. Also involved are Turning Point USA, which has a presence on college campuses, and groups known for staking out rightwing stances on culture war issues including Moms for Liberty. The goal is to provide a workable plan for implementing radical changes to the federal government which a conservative president like Trump would have ready to go upon taking office next January.

On Thursday the DNC launched its first mobile billboard effort centered on Project 2025 — a truck that will broadcast a series of messages about the campaign in front of the Heritage Foundation’s headquarters near Capitol Hill. The intent of the messages is clear: Project 2025 is Trump’s agenda despite his attempt to claim the opposite.

Trump did just that in a Truth Social post a week ago in which he stuck to vague language and applauded the group for having some good ideas and condemned them for other bad ones — none of which he actually named.

“I know nothing about Project 2025,” he wrote in the