Trump disavowed Project 2025. Now he's hiring its contributors for his administration

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Vought is a vocal proponent of a plan known as Schedule F, under which Trump would fire thousands of career civil servants with extensive experience in their fields and replace them with his own political loyalists, and of Christian nationalism, which would see American governance aligned with Christian teachings.
43% : Trump named John Ratcliffe as his pick for CIA director and Pete Hoekstra as ambassador to Canada.
42% : Throughout his campaign, Trump adamantly disavowed Project 2025, even though its policies overlapped with his and some of its authors worked in his first administration.
40% : He believes "woke" civil servants and "so-called expert authorities" wield illegitimate power to block conservative White House directives from deep within federal agencies, and wants Trump to "bend or break" that bureaucracy to his will, he wrote in the second chapter of the Project 2025 playbook.
36% : Olinsky said the Supreme Court and the Republican-controlled House have already proved they are not willing to stand up to Trump.
35% : It calls for much stricter immigration enforcement and mass deportations -- a policy priority of Trump's as well -- and rails against environmental protections, calling for the demolition of key environmental agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service.
27% : Now, he said, he expects many of the more "draconian pieces" of Project 2025 to start being implemented given the nominees Trump has put forward.
24% : "Asked about Trump's selection of several people with Project 2025 connections to serve in his administration, Trump transition spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt responded with a statement, saying Trump "never had anything to do with Project 2025.""This has always been a lie pushed by the Democrats and the legacy media, but clearly the American people did not buy it because they overwhelmingly voted for President Trump to implement the promises that he made on the campaign trail," Leavitt wrote.
22% : Carr wrote a chapter of Project 2025 on the FCC, which regulates U.S. internet access and TV and radio networks, and has echoed Trump's claims that news broadcasters have engaged in political bias against Trump.
19% : Trump named Stephen Miller, an immigration hard-liner also linked to Project 2025, as his deputy chief of staff for policy.
19% : During the campaign Trump said that he knew "nothing about" Project 2025 and that he found some of its ideas "absolutely ridiculous and abysmal."

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