Kevin D. Roberts, PhD
Vice President Kamala Harris in recent months has spent considerable time and energy attacking Project 2025, the conservative movement’s plan to curtail the administrative state and put Washington back into the hands of the American people.
When asked about the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in a recent interview, the vice president even responded by describing our work as a threat to the safety of Americans.
This attempt to equate policy ideas to an assassination attempt rather than honestly debate the issues is dishonest and dangerous. So, before the vice president raises the temperature even higher, let me set the record straight.
Project 2025 isn’t centered on Donald Trump
Our policy work isn’t about any single presidential candidate, and it never has been. We started our work in the spring of 2022, before Trump announced he was running for a second term and well before any primary.
Our work also is not unique. Many other think tanks on both sides of the aisle, including the far-left Center for American Progress, do similar work advancing their priorities.
Finally, our work isn’t new. The Heritage Foundation has produced conservative policy playbooks every election cycle since Ronald Reagan’s victories in 1980 and 1984.
Now as then, those policies are focused on empowering American citizens to achieve the American dream, a dream that more and more Americans feel is slipping out of reach.
That means our policies are focused on protecting the freedom of Americans to work hard in a steady job. The freedom for Americans to put dinner on the table for their family. And the freedom for Americans to live in a house that they own in a neighborhood where they are safe.
Unfortunately, almost every objective measure indicates that it is much more difficult for Americans to do that now than it was when the Biden-Harris administration entered the White House. » Read More
https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/commentary/harris-wrong-about-project-2025-our-plan-good-america