Transition officials have used Project 2025's extensive personnel database to identify potential hires for the incoming administration, a person familiar with the plans said.

Summary

Despite disavowing Project 2025 during the campaign, Trump’s transition team is now using its extensive database of vetted conservative candidates to help fill over 4,000 government positions.

Project 2025, criticized for its extreme policy proposals and links to Trump’s first administration, created a “conservative LinkedIn” of 10,000 candidates.

While some contributors are being tapped for key roles, others face rejection due to controversial stances.

Democrats, who used Project 2025 in campaign attacks, are warning of its influence on Trump’s agenda and planning policy responses.

  • leftytighty@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Celebrities aside they were parading Cheney and Bush around… These were the “vote blue no matter who” enemies of 20 years ago. Who wants to vote for a party that’ll brag about Barron Trump’s endorsement in 20 more years?

    You can’t run on not being your opponent. You can’t fight a status quo disruptive candidate from the far right with bland centrist positions. People wanted change, only one party offered change.

    Yes people are dumb, yes their faces will be eaten, yes to all of those things. But Democrats still lost. Trump didn’t win, Harris lost.

    Now they’ll go even more right and wonder why nobody is excited to get out to vote.

    The right wing already had a good candidate. Where’s the left wing candidate?