Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene further contributed to Donald Trump's effort to distance himself from the now infamous Project 2025 on Thursday, rejecting the notion in Congress.
Speaking at a House Oversight Committee hearing, the lawmaker made a related statement with the purpose of getting it into the record. Concretely, she made reference to an interview that Project 2025 head Kevin Roberts gave to Fox News, noting that the former President was not involved in its making nor he has supported it.
"Kevin Roberts stated for the record... he also published Project 2025. 'Mr. Trump is telling the truth,' he said in Fox News. He never collaborated and never endorsed it, nor the Heritage Foundation endorsed Trump for president. Democrats are lying over and over again about Project 2025 and president Trump," Greene said.
I just entered an article into the record during today’s House Oversight Committee hearing confirming President Trump has NOTHING to do with Project 2025.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) September 19, 2024
Democrats are lying over and over again about this fact.
Enough! pic.twitter.com/My41wXGcf2
Project 2025 has been described as a "presidential transition project," according to its website. It sets out four main policy aims: restore the family as the centerpiece of American life, dismantle the administrative state, defend the nation's sovereignty and borders, and secure God-given individual rights to live freely.
The far-right document has been described as having a "fascist" agenda by specialists, while the former President's detractors have tried to highlight his connection to it.
The team that created Project 2025's agenda is full of former Trump staff while he occupied the White House, including Paul Dans, who was chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management; immigration advisor Stephen Miller; and Gene Hamilton, who was known in the Trump administration as second only to Miller in his knowledge of immigration policy and fervor to move it in a more restrictive direction.
Similarly, in a private meeting earlier this summer, secretly recorded and leaked to CNN, Russ Vought— a former Office of Management and Budget head and Project 2025 contributor— noted that Trump was trying to distance himself from the Project "brand," but that he's "in fact not even opposing himself to a particular policy."
Trump, however, has repeatedly sought to distance himself from the project, considering its unpopularity even with some Republicans. "I disagree with some of the things they're saying and some of the things they're saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal," he has said about it. He has also been promoting his own platform, Agenda47.
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