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Trump disavows Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, despite MAGA ties
Mike Allen, Zachary Basu
Screenshot: Truth Social
Former President Trump on Friday disavowed the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, which has sparked widespread news coverage about policy plans for a potential second Trump administration.
Why it matters: Project 2025 has long annoyed Trump and his top campaign officials, despite the deep links and allies shared by the two entities. Lately, Democrats have been attacking Project 2025 as a proxy for the stakes of defeating "MAGA Republicans."
Trump's disavowal comes two days after Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts drew outrage from Democrats with his comments about a "second American Revolution" on Steve Bannon's radio show.
"[W]e are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be," Roberts said, declaring that "the radical left" was "apoplectic" because "our side is winning."
What they're saying: "I know nothing about Project 2025," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
"I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they're saying and some of the things they're saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them."
Reality check: A plethora of former Trump administration officials have worked on and endorsed Project 2025.
John McEntee, former director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office and one of Trump's most trusted aides, is a senior adviser for the project.
McEntee said in April that the Trump campaign and Project 2025 plan to "integrate a lot of our work" this summer, according to the liberal watchdog Media Matters.
Project 2025 responded to Trump's comments on X: "As we've been saying for more than two years now, Project 2025 does not speak for any candidate or campaign."
"We are a coalition of more than 110 conservative groups advocating policy & personnel recommendations for the next conservative president."
"But it is ultimately up to that president, who we believe will be President Trump, to decide which recommendations to implement."
The other side: "Project 2025 is the extreme policy and personnel playbook for Trump's second term that should scare the hell out of the American people," Biden campaign spokesman Ammar Moussa said in a statement to Axios.
"Project 2025 staff and leadership routinely tout their connections to Trump's team, and are the same people leading the RNC policy platform and Trump's debate prep, campaign, and inner circle."
Behind the scenes: We're told Trump hated the credit Project 2025 got, and campaign aides found the coverage confusing. The campaign has its own detailed policy plans, Agenda47.
Axios scooped last week that the Biden campaign planned to use the CNN debate to launch a new offensive against the Heritage Foundation's plans to transform the U.S. government.
Moussa pointed out on X Friday that Trump's main super PAC, MAGA Inc., is running ads promoting a website called "Trump Project 2025."
A source familiar with the website tells Axios the term "Project 2025" was used to capture search traffic inspired by Democratic ads. The site doesn't link to or promote Heritage's project, and instead contrasts Trump and Biden policies.
How it works: Project 2025 is an effort to concentrate the president's control over the executive branch to override checks that otherwise could restrain his power.
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/05/trump-project-2025-heritage-foundation
Biden-Harris Admin On Track To Oversee Massive $1 Trillion In Improper Payments, Watchdog Group Finds
Robert Schmad
September 26, 2024 6:11 AM ET
President Biden Joins Vice President Harris On The Campaign Trail In Pittsburgh
(Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
If current trends persist, the Biden-Harris administration will have made over $1 trillion in improper payments by the time President Joe Biden leaves office, according to a report released by the watchdog organization Open The Books on Thursday.
An improper payment is a disbursement “made by the government to the wrong person, in the wrong amount or for the wrong reason,” per federal guidelines. The Biden-Harris administration, between 2021 and 2023, oversaw $801.4 billion in such payments after adjusting for inflation, according to the report.
The amount of improper payments made by the administration in 2024 won’t be disclosed until after November’s election. Biden’s administration, however, has made well over $200 billion in erroneous payments each year since it has been in power, according to Open The Books. (RELATED: Biden White House Staff Is Largest Since Nixon, Costs Taxpayers $225 Million)
The Biden-Harris administration will cross the $1 trillion threshold “barring something unprecedented,” according to the watchdog.
“President Biden and his successors must take more action to address the proliferation of improper payments, beyond mere rhetoric,” Open The Books director of communications Christopher Neefus told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The sheer magnitude of misspent taxpayer dollars is tough to comprehend. Put into perspective, the most recent Pentagon funding bill cost $883 billion; that means the Biden administration will have misspent more than it takes to fund our national defense for a whole year.”
High levels of waste are nothing new for the federal government, however, the Biden-Harris administration has taken it to the next level. Former President Donald Trump’s administration, for instance, disclosed $814 billion in inflation-adjusted improper payments during his four years in office, slightly over what the Biden-Harris administration erroneously disbursed in just three years.
The Biden-Harris administration’s improper spending works out to roughly $7,500 incorrectly spent each second, according to Open The Book’s calculations. In 2021, 7.16% of federal disbursements were made improperly, a figure that fell to 5.4% in 2023.
Improper payment reports provided by the federal government are likely underestimates as the Government Accountability Office points out that Congress hasn’t given all federal programs the authority to estimate erroneous payments and because there are probably fraud schemes that go undetected by federal authorities.
https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/26/biden-harris-admin-trillion-improper-payments-watchdog/