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(NewsNation) —The manager of the arguable Project 2025 is stepping down from his presumption astatine blimpish deliberation vessel The Heritage Foundation amid escalating disapproval of the program by Trump and his campaign, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Paul Dans, manager of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project astatine the organization, informed the unit this week of his determination to resign, the WSJ reported.
The Heritage Foundation did not instantly instrumentality a petition for remark by NewsNation.
Dans is considered 1 of the main architects of the plan, "organizing argumentation and unit recommendations and grooming for appointees successful the adjacent statesmanlike administration," according to a bio inactive listed connected the group’s website.
Critics person called the program extremist, “authoritarian” and adjacent dystopian.
Prior to joining The Heritage Foundation, Dans served successful the Trump Administration arsenic main of unit astatine the U.S. Office of Personnel Management arsenic good arsenic the agency’s White House liaison. Trump appointed Dans to service arsenic Chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission successful 2021, according to the group.
The Heritage Foundation wrote the astir 1,000-page Project 2025 arsenic a blueprint to overhaul the national authorities for the adjacent Republican administration.
Trump has antecedently disavowed the plan, posting connected his societal media tract that helium has “no idea” who is down Project 2025 and knows “nothing” astir it. Dozens of radical who worked intimately with him and helped signifier his medication are progressive successful the plan.
“I disagree with immoderate of the things they’re saying, and immoderate of the things they’re saying are perfectly ridiculous and abysmal,” Trump wrote. “Anything they do, I privation them luck, but I person thing to bash with them.”
Project 2025 suggests firing arsenic galore arsenic 50,000 national workers who blimpish groups accidental volition impede the president’s agenda.
A alleged top-to-bottom “overhaul” of the Department of Justice would extremity FBI efforts to halt misinformation nether the plan. The Pentagon would “abolish” diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives if Project 2025 is adopted, and work members discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine would beryllium reinstated.
On abortion, Project 2025 calls for restricting the process done a bounds connected mail-order pills and penalizing providers. Other healthcare services and societal services similar Medicare and Social Security would beryllium scaled backmost and privatized, and each of the Biden administration’s clime alteration policies would beryllium reversed through.
