PROJECT 2025
Project 2025 (also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project) is a political initiative published in April 2022 by the American pro-oligarchical think tank the Heritage Foundation. The project promotes right-wing policies to reshape the federal government of the United States and consolidate executive power.
Project 2025 is the ninth iteration of the Mandate for Leadership series, published since 1981. Perhaps Heritage Foundation'S most influential moment came during Reagan’s first term with its first “Mandate for Leadership”. The foundation claims that Reagan gave copies of the manifesto to “every member of his Cabinet” and that nearly two-thirds of the policy recommendations it laid out were either “adopted or attempted”.
More than $120 million from a few ultra-wealthy families has powered the Heritage Foundation and other groups that created the radical plan known as Project 2025 to dismantle and reshape the governmental infrastructure of the United State of America for the benefit of themselves.
More than 100 nonprofits led by The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank that has engaged in climate change denial and obstruction for decades, have signed on as advisors to the Project 2025’s 900-page “Mandate for Leadership” document — a plan to rapidly “reform,” or radically alter, the U.S. government by shuttering bureaus and offices, overturning regulations, and replacing thousands of public sector employees with hand-picked political allies.
For decades, Heritage has engaged behind the scenes in directing GOP policy, narratives and talking points. The foundation are largely focused on promoting divisive wedge issues and protecting the wealth, businesses and industries of their donors.
Heritage's major donations are linked to the family fortunes of a handful of wealthy industrialists who have spent years working against government taxes on the ultra-rich, environmental regulations and promoting climate change denial. Though Heritage describes Project 2025 as a mainstream effort to “return government to the people,” its funding sources suggest something far less populist: a vehicle for the obsessions of ultra-rich donors.
In its official Project 2025 materials, The Heritage Foundation leadership repeatedly draws attention to the size and diversity of its advisory board, suggesting that its numerous “coalition partners” are part of a broad, “movement-wide effort” representing a variety of independent viewpoints.
“Project 2025 is unparalleled in the history of the conservative movement—both in its size and scope but also for organizing [so many] different groups under a single banner,” the organization wrote in an October 2023 press release.
But an analysis of financial disclosure forms shows the same small group of donors supporting Project 2025’s advisors again and again — hardly a sign of ideological diversity. Of the 110 nonprofits formally supporting Project 2025, almost 50 received major donations from the same six sources of wealth since 2020.
Many of the organizations the six families funded also have close ties to Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance.
Trump has repeatedly denied involvement in or knowledge of Project 2025, though that position conflicts with a growing number of news reports — a disavowal made more awkward by the fact that Vance wrote the foreword to Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington To Save America, a book by Heritage Foundation president Kevin D. Roberts that describes his Project 2025 vision.
Heritage describes Project 2025 as a mainstream effort to “return government to the people,” its funding sources suggest something far less populist: a vehicle for the obsessions of ultra-rich donors on the far-right fringe, pushing an agenda to destroy American democracy and rewrite laws and regulations as they please.
THE SUPER RICH DONORS BEHIND PROJECT 2025
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