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WASHINGTON -- During the statesmanlike statement connected Tuesday night, erstwhile President Donald Trump again tried to region himself from Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation task crafted by dozens of his erstwhile medication officials.
"I haven't work it. I don't privation to work it, purposefully. I'm not going to work it," helium says.
This communicative beneath was primitively published connected July 16, 2024.
The inaugural known arsenic Project 2025 is framed arsenic a blueprint of what a 2nd statesmanlike word for Donald Trump could look like.
The erstwhile president has been distancing himself from it successful caller weeks.
Project 2025 is astir 1,000 pages of argumentation recommendations, including cuts to nutrient stamps, national pupil indebtedness forgiveness programs and reshaping bureaucracy by large changes to women's rights.
"It would truly beryllium the demolition of our ideology arsenic a whole," said National Organization for Women President Christian Nunes.
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The 922-page program to overhaul the national authorities is led by blimpish deliberation vessel the Heritage Foundation.
"Their enactment is truly designed to dismantle galore societal pro-net programs, reverse decades of years of equity enactment that we enactment into to support civilian rights," Nunes said.
In the project's mandate, it suggests things specified arsenic reversing support of termination drugs, getting escaped of the pentagon's caller diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and reclassifying tens of thousands of national workers arsenic governmental appointees.
It goes connected to suggest deleting presumption specified arsenic "sexual predisposition and sex identity," "diversity equity and inclusion" and "any different word utilized to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights retired of each national rule."
"If this were to travel to reality, the magnitude of trauma, the magnitude of violence, the amounts of oppression that would exist, would beryllium detrimental, Nunes said.
Nunes says aft watching the overturn of Roe v. Wade, she worries these policies volition go a world with Trump arsenic a president.
Trump has distanced himself from Project 2025, penning connected his societal media website, "I cognize thing astir Project 2025," and calling immoderate of the policies "ridiculous."
However, according to a CNN report, astir 240 radical were recovered with ties to some Project 2025 and the erstwhile president.
Trump has pushed a connection of unification since the assassination effort astatine his Pennsylvania rally implicit the weekend.
ABC7 requested an interrogation with those successful complaint of Project 2025, did not perceive back.
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