{"id":1037177,"date":"2024-07-10T13:11:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T17:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1037177"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:11:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T17:11:41","slug":"icymi-extreme-right-wing-think-tank-behind-trumps-project-2025-partnering-with-and-sponsoring-the-republican-national-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-extreme-right-wing-think-tank-behind-trumps-project-2025-partnering-with-and-sponsoring-the-republican-national-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Extreme Right-Wing Think Tank Behind Trump\u2019s Project 2025 Partnering with and Sponsoring the Republican National Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As Donald Trump continues to pathetically attempt to hide his dangerous and unpopular agenda from voters, new reporting yesterday by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel shows that the main think tank behind his plan \u2013 Project 2025 \u2013 is a sponsor for next week\u2019s Republican National Convention. Project 2025 \u2013 drafted by Trump\u2019s close allies and former administration staff&nbsp; \u2013 is an extreme second term agenda \u2013 so Trump can push the boundaries of the executive office beyond recognition if reelected. Trump has lied about his close ties to Project 2025 but the charade is up. The organization that published the plan, the Heritage Foundation, has now been announced as a sponsor of the Republican National Convention, as the entire Republican Party continues to own the extreme nature of Project 2025.<br><br><strong><em>In response to this bombshell report, DNC Spokesperson Addy Toevs released the following statement<\/em><\/strong>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo matter what lies Trump spews as he and his closest allies relentlessly work to rip away our fundamental rights, voters know the truth. Whether it\u2019s his former administration or his MAGA party, Trump consistently promotes extremists who want to ban access to abortion, cut Social Security and Medicare, and end drug price negotiations that have cut the cost of prescription drugs for those who need them most. Trump is bad for Milwaukee, he\u2019s bad for Wisconsin, and he\u2019s bad for the nation. Next week at the RNC, Democrats won\u2019t let Trump hide the truth and this November, voters will reject Trump\u2019s toxic Project 2025 agenda at the ballot box.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/07\/09\/project-2025-think-tank-heritage-foundation-signs-on-as-an-rnc-sponsor\/74337029007\/\"><strong>The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/strong><\/a><strong>: <\/strong><strong>Think tank behind Project 2025 conservative blueprint signs on as RNC convention sponsor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By: Lawrence Andrea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Key Point:<\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em><em>As former President Donald Trump distances himself from a conservative group\u2019s blueprint for a future Republican governing agenda, he will have at least one unavoidable connection to it: the Republican National Convention.&nbsp; The Heritage Foundation, the D.C.-based think tank that produced <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/06\/10\/heritage-foundation-project-2025-explained\/74042435007\/\"><em>Project 2025<\/em><\/a><em> \u2014 a series of policy plans to overhaul the federal government \u2014 is among the sponsors of the convention in Milwaukee next week.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The group is touted as a convention partner on the RNC host committee\u2019s website. And Heritage plans to hold a day-long \u201cpolicy fest\u201d in downtown Milwaukee on Monday, the opening day of a convention in which Trump will officially receive the Republican nomination for president.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Project 2025, which in part calls for an expansion of presidential authority, is separate from the Trump campaign\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/agenda47\">Agenda47<\/a>\u201d policy priorities and from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/07\/08\/rnc-platform-backs-trump-abortion-immigration\/74329519007\/\">RNC&#8217;S own platform<\/a>, though a number of former Trump administration officials were involved in crafting Heritage\u2019s plans [&#8230;]\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Heritage\u2019s presence at the Republican nominating convention is yet another sign of the think tank\u2019s influence. In addition to the day-long policy discussion Monday, billed as \u201cFighting for America\u2019s Future,\u201d the group plans to host a social event at a bar near Fiserv Forum Wednesday evening, according to the convention\u2019s event calendar.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Project 2025, a <a href=\"https:\/\/static.project2025.org\/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf\">922-page plan<\/a>, seeks in part to give a future Republican president greater control over the executive branch, replace civil service government employees with partisan appointees and eliminate the Department of Education, among scores of other proposals.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Donald Trump continues to pathetically attempt to hide his dangerous and unpopular agenda from voters, new reporting yesterday by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel shows that the main think tank behind his plan \u2013 Project 2025 \u2013 is a sponsor for next week\u2019s Republican National Convention. Project 2025 \u2013 drafted by Trump\u2019s close allies and former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ICYMI: Extreme Right-Wing Think Tank Behind Trump\u2019s Project 2025 Partnering with and Sponsoring the Republican National Convention - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-extreme-right-wing-think-tank-behind-trumps-project-2025-partnering-with-and-sponsoring-the-republican-national-convention\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-07-10T17:11:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-10T17:11:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-extreme-right-wing-think-tank-behind-trumps-project-2025-partnering-with-and-sponsoring-the-republican-national-convention\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-extreme-right-wing-think-tank-behind-trumps-project-2025-partnering-with-and-sponsoring-the-republican-national-convention\/\",\"name\":\"ICYMI: Extreme Right-Wing Think Tank Behind Trump\u2019s Project 2025 Partnering with and Sponsoring the Republican National Convention - 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