As the 2024 presidential election has ramped up, Donald Trump has tried to distance himself from a plan laid out by a group of right-wing organizations to gut the federal government of thousands of officials believed to stand in the way of a Republican agenda and replace them with conservative loyalists.
Although Project 2025, as the plan is known, dovetails closely with Trump’s own statements about abolishing the “deep state,” the former president has repudiated the scheme as Democrats have ramped up their attacks against it. In a post on Truth Social earlier this month, Trump said he knew nothing about the project and called some of its policies “ridiculous and abysmal.”
