Donald Trump's initial dismissal of Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda, has evolved into a more nuanced stance, raising questions about his potential policy direction during his second term.
Before he was elected as president for a second time, Donald Trump swore he had 'nothing to do with' Project 2025 , the 900-page policy agenda spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation .'I have nothing to do with Project 2025 . I haven't read it. I don't want to read it purposely. I'm not going to read it,' he said during an ABC News presidential debate in September.A month earlier, he had described some parts of the policy agenda as 'ridiculous and abysmal.''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,' he said in a Truth Social post. He did not say which parts he was referring to.But in what seems to signal somewhat of a change in heart by the president-elect, he softened his tone on the policy document in an interview with Time Magazine this month, praising some of its ideas, though again without specifying which parts he agrees with.Now experts have told Newsweek that there are three key areas outlined in Project 2025 that Trump may press ahead with during his second term: dismantling federal bureaucracy, sharply restricting immigration, and taking a tougher stance with China. What they don't agree on is who exactly is driving such an agenda.For his critics, this is evidence of Trump working 'hand in hand' with strategists whom they see as conservative ideologues. Others take the view that Trump is likely to advance interests that are part of a mainstream conservative agenda and simply overlap with some of Project 2025's policy positions. The answer may offer a clue to his presidency: either as a divisive figure pandering to what his critics say is extremism, or a transactional leader promoting policies that the election result suggested are popular with broad swaths of the American public.How Trump Softened His Tone'I don't disagree with everything in Project 2025, but I disagree with some things,' he told Tim
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