“Project 2025 is the agenda,” MAGA figures admit

Project 2025 is indeed “the agenda,” said a prominent MAGA personality, even though Donald Trump repeatedly denied any connection to it during the campaign.

And former Trump adviser Steve Bannon strongly supported conservative political commentator Matt Walsh’s comment, which had 5.9 million views and 6,800 reposts on Walsh’s post.

Project 2025, a manifesto from conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation for the next Republican president, has been heavily criticized by many across the political spectrum, including Trump himself, because some of its proposals include an overhaul of the federal government and federal policies that focus on the use of Abortion pills target.

Trump has repeatedly said he had nothing to do with it, calling some of the ideas “absolutely ridiculous and abysmal” in July, but Democrats have pushed back, saying many of the president-elect’s former advisers are leading the project.

Bannon, who was recently released from prison after serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress, quoted and endorsed the post on his podcast Bannon’s war room.

He said: “I think Matt Walsh is a very smart and funny guy. I just wrote on Twitter: ‘Now that the election is over, I think we can finally say that Project 2025 is actually on the agenda’.”

“Fabulous,” Bannon added, before telling his team to “put this everywhere.”

Walsh has no formal role on Trump’s team, but is a significant figure in the MAGA-supporting media, with 3.2 million followers on X, formerly Twitter, and hosts the daily podcast The Matt Walsh Show, produced by The Daily Wire network.

Newsweek contacted Trump’s team via email seeking a response.

Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, congratulated Trump on his victory after he pulled off the biggest political comeback in US history.

“President Trump achieved a historic and hard-fought victory: overcoming four bogus indictments, surviving two assassination attempts and surviving an unprecedented mid-race candidate switch to become the first president since Grover Cleveland to win two non-consecutive terms,” ​​said Kevin Roberts released a statement in a statement on Tuesday evening.

Project 2025’s 900-page document contains 30 essays written by various conservative political thinkers and former officials that together suggest ways in which the federal government could be reshaped to address the “moral and fundamental challenges facing America at this moment in history “, to cope with.

The document’s recommendations on abortion, immigration and executive control of the federal bureaucracy led to it being described by the ACLU as a “roadmap for replacing the rule of law with right-wing ideals” and attempts to link the project to Trump became a key element of the Democrats’ line of attack throughout the campaign.

Newsweek has emailed the Heritage Foundation and representatives for Roberts seeking comment.