By Khaleda Rahman
National Correspondent
More than a hundred conservative organizations contributed to the proposals put forward by Project 2025.
Project 2025, an initiative spearheaded by the conservative Heritage Foundation, has published a 900-page handbook proposing a massive overhaul of the federal government should former president Donald Trump win back the White House in November, including firing thousands of government workers so that Republican loyalists can be installed in their place.
President Joe Biden's campaign has called the document "an extreme policy and personnel playbook for Trump's second term that should scare the hell out of the American people." Many of the proposed policies are not popular with voters.
Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has sought to distance himself from Project 2025.
"I know nothing about Project 2025," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Friday. "I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they're saying and some of the things they're saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them."
However, more than two dozen people who served in Trump's administration helped craft Project 2025's policy document.
Project 2025 has said it does not speak for any candidate or campaign.
"We are a coalition of more than 110 conservative groups advocating policy and personnel recommendations for the next conservative president," a Project 2025 spokesperson previously said in a statement to Newsweek.
"But it is ultimately up to that president, who we believe will be President Trump, to decide which recommendations to implement."
Project 2025's website says a coalition of over 100 conservative organizations helped "form the project pillars." It adds that the "opinions of Project 2025 and The Heritage Foundation do not necessarily represent the opinions of every one of its advisory board partners."
Here are all of the conservative organizations involved with Project 2025:
- 1792 Exchange
- American Accountability Foundation
- AAPLOG - American Association of Pro-Life OBGYNs
- Alabama Policy Institute
- Alliance Defending Freedom
- American Center for Law and Justice
- American Commitment
- American Compass
- American Cornerstone Institute
- The American Conservative
- American Council of Trustees and Alumni
- American Family Association
- America First Legal
- American Juris Link
- American Legislative Exchange Council
- The American Main Street Initiative
- American Moment
- American Principles Project
- The American Family Project
- The American Redistricting Project
- Americans United for Life
- AMAC Action - The Association of Mature American Citizens
- The Bull Moose Project
- California Family Council
- Calvert Task Group
- Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University
- Center for Equal Opportunity
- Center for Family & Human Rights
- Center for Immigration Studies
- Center for Military Readiness
- Center for Renewing America
- Center for Secure Free Society
- Citizens Against Government Waste
- The Claremont Institute
- Coalition for Liberty
- Coalition for a Prosperous America
- Committee for Justice
- Concerned Women for America
- Conservative Partnership Institute
- Consumers Defense
- Defense of Freedom Institute
- Eagle Forum
- Ethics and Public Policy Center
- Fairer America
- Family Policy Alliance
- Family Research Council
- Feds for Freedom
- First Liberty
- ForAmerica
- Forge Leadership Network
- Foundation for American Innovation
- Foundation for Government Accountability
- Freedom's Journal Institute
- The Frederick Douglass Foundation
- Gun Owners Foundation
- The Heartland Institute
- The Heritage Foundation
- Herzog Foundation
- MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates
- Hillsdale College
- Honest Elections Project
- Independent Women's Forum
- Institute for Education Reform
- Institute for Energy Research
- Institute for the American Worker
- The Institute for Women's Health
- Intercollegiate Studies Institute
- Dr. James Dobson Family Institute
- The James Madison Institute
- Job Creators Network
- Keystone Policy
- Leadership Institute
- League of American Workers
- Liberty University
- Mackinac Center for Public Policy
- The Malone Institute
- Middle East Forum
- Media Research Center
- Mississippi Center for Public Policy
- Moms for Liberty
- Mountain States for Policy Center
- National Association of Scholars
- National Center for Public Policy Research
- National Religious Broadcasters
- National Rifle Association
- National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
- Native Americans for Sovereignty & Preservation
- Nevada Policy
- Noah Webster Educational Foundation
- The Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
- Project 21
- Pacific Research Institute
- The Palm Beach Freedom Institute
- Palmetto Promise
- Patrick Henry College
- The Patriot Foundation Trust
- Personnel Policy Operations
- Public Interest Legal Foundation
- Protect Our Kids
- Recovery for America Now Foundation
- Republican Overseas Foundation
- SAVE - Stop Abusive and Violent Environments
- STARRS - Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services
- Students for Life of America
- Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America
- Tea Party Patriots
- Texas Public Policy Foundation
- Teneo
- Turning Point USA
- Young America's Foundation
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