Meet the Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans
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As Donald Trump tried to disavow the project, its director stepped down. But the plans that he prepared remain.
In January 2023, a group of about 15 people gathered for three days at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative Washington think tank a few blocks from the Capitol. Their aim was ambitious and farsighted: to start building the next Republican administration, two years before a Republican president might again take office. The group’s leaders originally cast the initiative as candidate…