Tallahassee Democrat, July 2024
Almost 900 pages, the conservative Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 isn’t an easy read. But the document, which has been cast as a conservative roadmap for a second Donald Trump presidency, is driving fiery exchanges in the rebooted race for the White House.
Project 2025 proposes a dramatic overhaul of the federal government, replacing thousands of civil employees with political hires, expanding the power of the president, abolishing the Department of Education, enacting a flurry of tax cuts, banning pornography and halting sales of the abortion pill. For Floridians, the document’s themes and policies may sound familiar. After all, Gov. Ron DeSantis advanced many of the same ideas, pushed along by hard-right think tanks in his first six years as governor.
