In response to Project 2025 leader Kevin Roberts reaffirming that the Trump-Vance ticket is running on the extreme, out-of-touch, and deeply unpopular Project 2025, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: 

“In the words of its architect Kevin Roberts: Project 2025 is the ‘largest, broadest scale’ operation for ‘institutionalizing Trumpism’ — and that’s what Vice President Harris is ‘running against.’ No amount of spin from Donald Trump or JD Vance changes their deep ties to this ‘undeniably Trump-driven operation’ to force through an extreme blueprint that would ban abortion nationwide with or without Congress, give tax handouts to the ultra-rich, and gut checks and balances. Trump himself says there are things in their agenda that ‘everybody would like,’ while Vance has lauded Project 2025’s ‘good ideas.’ The Trump-Vance ticket and Project 2025 would put all of our rights at risk, and the American people will show up to reject this dangerous and out-of-touch MAGA playbook in November.”

Project 2025 architect Kevin Roberts reaffirmed this morning that the Trump-Vance ticket is running on the extreme Project 2025 agenda.

Shannon Bream, Fox News: “Kevin, since we have you here, I want to ask about somewhere she has landed some punches, and this is the connecting Project 2025 from Heritage to President Trump. Here’s how the New Republic reports on it: ‘Mass deportations? Check. Shove a Christian God into schools and workplaces? Check. Weaponize the DOJ for Trump? Check. Fire civil servants en masse and replace them with vetted MAGAs? Check.’ It goes on from there. Can you answer any of those? And the secondary question of the Trump-level or Trump team members’ involvement with Project 2025?”

Kevin Roberts: “Project 2025 is the largest, broadest scale conservative movement boilerplate set of policies … That’s what Vice President Harris is running against.”

Project 2025 is “undeniably a Trump-driven operation” which both Trump and Vance have praised.

Trump: “There are some things in [Project 2025] that everybody would like.”

Vance: “I’ve reviewed a lot of [Project 2025]. There are some good ideas in there.”

Axios: “This is undeniably a Trump-driven operation. The biggest tell: Johnny McEntee — one of Trump’s closest White House aides, and his most fervent internal loyalty enforcer — is a senior adviser to Project 2025. One of the most powerful architects is Stephen Miller, a top West Wing adviser for the Trump administration.”

Washington Post: “Trump took a private flight with Project 2025 leader in 2022”

“But in April 2022, Trump shared a 45-minute private flight with Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, according to people familiar with the trip, plane-tracking data and a photograph from on board the plane, which has not been previously reported. They flew together to a Heritage conference where Trump delivered a keynote address that gestured to Heritage’s forthcoming policy proposals…

“‘I personally have talked to President Trump about Project 2025,’ [Roberts] said in the interview, ‘because my role in the project has been to make sure that all of the candidates who have responded to our offer for a briefing on Project 2025 get one from me’…

“‘[The Heritage Foundation is] going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do,’ Trump said.”

New York Times: “[Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts] told me that he views Heritage’s role today as ‘institutionalizing Trumpism.’ … The lesson of Trump’s first year in office, Roberts told me, is that ‘the Trump administration … simply got a slow start. And Heritage and our allies in Project 2025 believe that must never be repeated.’”

CNN: “Vought said his group, the Center for Renewing America, was secretly drafting hundreds of executive orders, regulations, and memos that would lay the groundwork for rapid action on Trump’s plans if he wins, describing his work as creating “shadow” agencies. He claimed that Trump has ‘blessed’ his organization and ‘he’s very supportive of what we do.’”

CNN: “Trump claims not to know who is behind Project 2025. A CNN review found at least 140 people who worked for him are involved”

The Week: “Many of Trump’s indicated plans for a second term fall in line with the Project 2025 outline.”

Trump and Vance have repeatedly echoed extreme Project 2025 plans, which includes banning abortion nationwide with or without Congress, cruel mass deportation schemes, mass firings of civil servants, and tax giveaways for billionaires.

The Atlantic: “At the top of Vought and Dans’s must-do list for the next president: reissuing an executive order that Trump signed during his final months in office—and which President Joe Biden promptly reversed—that would allow the government to remove civil-service protections from as many as 50,000 federal jobs. The move would create a new class of employees known as Schedule F whom the president could fire at will.”

Associated Press: “Trump-era conservatives want to gut the ‘administrative state’ from within, by ousting federal employees they believe are standing in the way of the president’s agenda and replacing them with like-minded officials more eager to fulfill a new executive’s approach to governing.”

Vox: “‘If I was giving him one piece of advice’ for a second term, Vance said on a 2021 podcast: ‘Fire every single mid level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.’”

Rolling Stone: “Inside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill”

“GOP operatives have already crafted an expansive blueprint, 887 pages long, laying out in painstaking detail how they intend to govern, including plans to leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion access.”

Rolling Stone: “Trump Wants to Ban Abortion Nationwide: Report”

Washington Post: “Vance urged DOJ to enforce Comstock Act, crack down on abortion pills”

CNN: “JD Vance said in 2022 he ‘would like abortion to be illegal nationally’”

CNN: “Project 2025’s proposals for reforming the country’s immigration laws appear heavily influenced by those who helped execute Trump’s early enforcement measures. Former acting US Customs and Border Protection chief Mark Morgan and former Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief Tom Homan – the faces of Trump’s polarizing policies – contributed to the project, as did Kathy Nuebel Kovarik, one of the policy advisers pushing to end certain immigrant protections behind the scenes.”

New York Times: “Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans”

Education Week: “Project 2025, a 900-page conservative policy agenda that proposes eliminating the U.S. Department of Education, has become a dominating force in the 2024 election campaign.” 

Trump Campaign: “President Trump pledges to close the Department of Education in Washington, D.C. and to send all education work and needs back to the States.”

Project 2025: “The corporate income tax rate should be reduced to 18 percent.”

CBS News: “Millions of low- and middle-class households would likely face significantly higher taxes under the Project 2025’s proposals.”

Washington Post: “Trump and his advisers have discussed deeper cuts to both individual and corporate tax rates that would build on his controversial 2017 tax law. … Trump’s advisers, though, have discussed proposals to make deeper cuts to the overall corporate tax rate, potentially to as low as 15 percent, or to use the revenue from the proposed tariffs to pay a dividend to U.S. households. Further cutting corporate taxes … would primarily benefit large firms.”