The Heritage Foundation on Thursday announced a 2025 Presidential Transition Project to prepare a governing agenda and conservative policy recommendations for the next administration that takes the White House.
A former high-ranking Trump administration official, Paul Dans, will direct the initiative, the leading think tank said in a press release.
Under President Donald Trump, Dans was chief of staff for the Office of Personnel Management, which oversees the 2 million employees in the federal workforce.
At OPM, Dans managed a 2,600-employee agency. He also was OPM’s White House liaison and senior adviser to the director.
“I am excited for the great things Paul Dans and our team will do to make this vision a reality,” Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said in a written statement, adding:
His extensive experience in personnel matters, coupled with his love for this country and the principles that make us great, will be invaluable tools as we begin the process of restoring America and uniting the conservative movement around doing so.
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President Joe Biden’s term expires Jan. 20, 2025. Biden, 79, has said he would run for a second term in 2024.
Heritage’s 2025 Presidential Transition Project builds on the think tank’s “Mandate for Leadership” publications, the first of which was influential in guiding the legislative agenda of President Ronald Reagan.
Trump, who unlike Reagan had Republican majorities in both the House and Senate for two years, enacted two-thirds of Heritage’s “Mandate for Leadership” recommendations for his administration.
“The Washington, D.C., bureaucrats responsible for crafting and implementing policy can be just as damaging to our country as those elected to lead it,” Roberts said, adding:
It is not enough to elect conservative leaders who articulate the right policies. We must ensure that the men and women surrounding these leaders also cherish American greatness, hold an unwavering fidelity to our Constitution, and believe in the supremacy of our God-given rights.
That is why we are standing up the 2025 Presidential Transition Project almost three years out from the next administration. Heritage will help provide not just the intellectual firepower to policymakers, but also do everything we can to ensure the right people hold positions of influence in Washington—and are empowered to root out those who no longer serve the interests of the American people.
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