Paul Dans, the director of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 blueprint for a GOP administration to overhaul the federal government and implement right-wing policies, is stepping down from his role — to much crowing from Donald Trump's campaign. The former president had run away from his embrace of the Heritage Foundation amid a wave of backlash, but despite his campaign's claims that Dans' departure marked the project's "demise" that should be "greatly welcomed," the architect of the whole agenda says it's not going anywhere.
“When we began Project 2025 in April 2022, we set a timeline for the project to conclude its policy drafting after the two party conventions this year, and we are sticking to that timeline,” Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said in a statement released to several news outlets, adding that Project 2025 had "completed exactly what it set out to do: bringing together over 110 leading conservative organizations to create a unified conservative vision, motivated to devolve power from the unelected administrative state, and returning it to the people. This tool was built for any future administration to use.”
