Russell Vought Denies Trump Is Enacting Project 2025 | EUROtoday

With President Donald Trump’s radical rehaul of America nicely underway, right-wing coverage engineer Russell Vought desires you to imagine Project 2025 was by no means meant to be his roadmap.

During Sunday’s episode of “State of the Union,” CNN moderator Dana Bash acquired an icy reply when she requested Vought if the overlap between Trump’s agenda and the hyper-conservative political program meant that Project 2025 was coming to fruition.

Though the president repeatedly distanced himself from Project 2025 throughout his marketing campaign, second-term Trump achievements like eliminating DEI, banning transgender troops and sending the navy to crack down on the southern border had been all detailed within the far-right coverage wishlist, which Vought served on the advisory board for.

But Vought, who’s now Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, shot down the concept the Heritage Foundation-helmed initiative impressed any of the president’s actions.

Claiming Trump was “very public” about his plans throughout his marketing campaign, the political operative informed Bash it’s “delusional” to assume the president was not the only real architect of his govt technique.

“I’m not suggesting that he’s not in charge,” Bash countered. “I’m just saying that now it’s pretty clear that what he wants to do and what you planned are dovetailing.”

Vought nonetheless refused to acknowledge the affect of Project 2025, which additionally laid out ways for shuttering the Department of Education, banning abortion remedy and imposing work necessities for Medicaid recipients in a 900-plus web page blueprint titled “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise.”

“I think the president was very clear with his agenda and he is going forward with that agenda and he has been at the helm and the originator of all of these ideas,” he informed Bash.

“What’s on the agenda is what the president has put on the agenda, most of which he ran on,” Vought continued. “And you will continue to see the things that he’s interested in doing and those people like me will be executing that vision.”

Though Trump’s insurance policies appear to be in sync with what was outlined by Project 2025, he informed voters throughout his marketing campaign he had “nothing to do” with this system.

“I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it purposely. I’m not going to read it,” he claimed throughout his first and solely debate with Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris.