Project 2025 Co-Author Says Donald Trump ‘Very Supportive Of What We Do’

A key author of a controversial blueprint for a second Donald Trump administration said he maintains close contact with Trump, despite the former president’s disavowals of his work.

Russell Vought, who helped write the Project 2025 policy agenda that includes the mass firing of federal workers, said he’s kept close ties to Trump since serving as the former president’s director of the Office of Management and Budget.

“I remember walking into our last day in office and told him what I was going to do. So, he’s very supportive of what we do,” Vought told an undercover reporter and an actor from the Centre for Climate Reporting, a British investigatory outlet.

Vought said his right-wing think tank, the Center for Renewing America, has been drafting hundreds of executive orders that could be used to enact mass firings and deportation of immigrants living in the country illegally. He said he would have no problem funneling the material to Trump.

“There are people like me that have his trust that will be able to get it to him in whatever position we’re at,” he said. “The relationships will be there. The trust level will be there.”

Project 2025 is a book-length policy roadmap for a second Trump term spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, with chapters authored by different contributors. Vought wrote a chapter on reforms for the executive office of the president.

Democrats have highlighted Project 2025’s proposals for restricting access to abortion, including medication abortion, and for replacing federal workers with Trump loyalists.

Trump has insisted that the authors of Project 2025 have no sway with him even though many of them, like Vought, are former members of his administration.

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