Inside the Trump Plan for 2025

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : In a conference room at Jones Day, Trump gave a brief speech and opened the floor to questions.
63% : That August, after Trump became the Party's nominee, Heritage was enlisted to participate in the Presidential transition in the event of a Trump victory.
56% : Those in attendance knew that Trump would soon enter the race.
56% : Shortly after 6 P.M., Trump strode onto the patio, wearing his customary dark suit and a blue tie, and launched into a stem-winder.
53% : Its founder, Russell Vought, a former head of the Office of Management and Budget under Trump, and a leading candidate to be the White House chief of staff in a second term, was in attendance, chatting amiably with the guests.
52% : They were attending a private meeting with Trump, who was rapidly gaining in the Republican primary but remained anathema to much of the G.O.P. establishment.
52% : "As early as January, 2016, DeMint predicted that Trump would win the Republican nomination.
48% : All of them are expected to have high-ranking roles in the government if Trump is elected again.
46% : "People in the conservative movement suddenly realized that Trump could be the horse that they could ride to victory," a former senior Heritage staffer told me.
46% : Feulner later told the Times that Heritage saw a greater opportunity to influence policy under Trump than it had under Reagan.
46% : "No. 1, he did clearly want to make very significant changes," Feulner said of Trump.
45% : But DeMint, sensing an opportunity to maximize his clout with Trump, dismissed the concerns.
43% : In 2021, he wrote an op-ed for Newsweek that asked, "Is There Anything Actually Wrong with 'Christian Nationalism'?"The Center for Renewing America is one of roughly two dozen right-wing groups that have emerged in Washington since Trump left office.
38% : One of its groups, the American Accountability Foundation, has been investigating the personal profiles and social-media posts of federal employees to determine who might lack fealty to Trump.
36% : Trump replied, "Why don't I put out a list publicly of people who could be the sort of people I would put on the Supreme Court?"
24% : Ever since Trump was acquitted in his first impeachment trial, in 2020, he has threatened to purge the government of anyone he considered disloyal.
20% : Trump recounted a trip that he'd taken to Iraq as President, but he kept digressing to complain about a thirteen-billion-dollar aircraft carrier that he'd commissioned.
20% : "The key throughout the speech was that Trump complained about his personnel," the attendee said.
17% : "After the meeting with Trump, in 2016, some of DeMint's staff objected to the task of drawing up a list of potential judges, arguing that Heritage was overcommitting itself.
14% : Trump had not yet announced his reëlection bid, but inflation was high, Joe Biden was unpopular, and pollsters were anticipating a Republican rout in the upcoming midterms.

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