Former President Donald Trump tried to distance himself from the right-wing agenda referred to as Mission 2025 — even if it’s been pushed ahead by individuals who labored in his first presidential administration and who would probably be a part of his second.
“I do know nothing about Mission 2025. I don’t know who’s behind it. I disagree with a few of the issues they’re saying and a few of the issues they’re saying are completely ridiculous and abysmal,” he wrote on Reality Social on Friday. “Something they do, I want them luck, however I’ve nothing to do with them.”
Project 2025 was created by the Heritage Basis and is backed by dozens of different arch-conservative teams. One of many three folks on its management workforce is Paul Dans, the previous chief of workers on the Workplace of Personnel Administration through the Trump administration. The Mission 2025 workforce has put out a call for recruiting potential second-term Trump officers.
Different former Trump administration officers affiliated with Mission 2025 embody former housing secretary Ben Carson, former White Home adviser Peter Navarro and former Workplace of Administration and Price range director Russ Vought (who can also be working on the Republican Nationwide Committee’s 2024 platform).
The 900-page agenda lays out a coverage blueprint for a possible second Trump time period. Amongst different insurance policies, the Mission 2025 agenda recommends imposing a scheme to reclassify authorities staff — one thing Trump initially tried in 2020 and plans to implement if reelected.
The plan would put extra staff in a class referred to as Schedule F, stripping 1000’s of individuals of their job protections and and allowing them to be fired at any given time for any purpose. Consultants say Schedule F’s implementation would pave the best way for authoritarianism and would have a chilling impact on the federal government, degrading public companies like catastrophe reduction, monetary regulation and the administration of advantages, and would hurt key welfare packages like Social Safety.
In a campaign video final yr, Trump described Schedule F as an effort to “take away rogue bureaucrats.”
“I’ll wield that energy very aggressively,” he stated.
In a press release Friday, a spokesperson for the Biden-Harris marketing campaign described Mission 2025 as a “playbook for Trump to realize his dream of being a dictator on day one, with unchecked, imperial energy.”
“Mission 2025 is the intense coverage and personnel playbook for Trump’s second time period that ought to scare the hell out of the American folks. Mission 2025 workers and management routinely tout their connections to Trump’s workforce, and are the identical folks main the RNC coverage platform, Trump’s debate prep, marketing campaign, and inside circle,” the spokesperson stated.
