Harris campaign calls BS after Trump team touts ‘demise’ of Project 2025

Kamala Harris’s campaign warned Democrats not to be fooled by statements from the Trump campaign after the director of the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” policy effort announced that he would step down.

While two top advisers to the former president claimed victory in a statement that blustered about the fates of any Republican who falsely claimed to speak for Donald Trump, the Harris campaign and even the Heritage Foundation said that the bulk of Project 2025’s work would continue.

Begun by the Heritage Foundation in concert with countless other conservative groups, Project 2025 is a wide-ranging blueprint for instituting major right-wing policy platforms and radically reshaping the federal government to fit a conservative vision. It calls for the removal of whole agencies, major reductions to the federal workforce, and other changes including the erosion of the Justice Department’s political independence from the White House.

On Tuesday, the project’s director, former Trump administration personnel official Paul Dans, resigned from his position at Heritage as the think tank announced that the project would end its’ active policy work.

Shortly after, Trump campaign heads Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles issued a joint statement warning that Dans and others associated with Project 2025 were trying to “misrepresent” Donald Trump’s views.

«President Trump’s campaign has been very clear for over a year that Project 2025 had nothing to do with the campaign, did not speak for the campaign, and should not be associated with the campaign or the President in any way,” they said.

“Reports of Project 2025’s demise would be greatly welcomed and should serve as notice to anyone or any group trying to misrepresent their influence