FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Why are Democrats wasting time plotting against a policy agenda called Project 2025 when Donald Trump has his own initiative, dubbed Agenda 47?
A woman raised this question in an online webinar hosted Friday by Georgia Democrats, shedding light on the problem with the Left’s obsession with Project 2025.
Project 2025 is the latest version of The Heritage Foundation’s presidential transition project, a guide to conservative policy solutions compiled and published by the think tank since before the 1980 election. More than 100 other conservative organizations participated this time.
“President Trump says he hasn’t read it,” Peggy Fenton, the Georgia woman, said of Project 2025 during the webinar. “So why are we spending time talking about things that are not on Agenda 47?”
Former President Donald Trump repeatedly has distanced himself from Project 2025.
“They’ve been told officially, legally, in every way, that we have nothing to do with Project 25,” Trump said of Democrats who use the Heritage-led initiative to attack him. “They know it, but they bring it up anyway. They bring up every single thing that you can bring up. Every one of them was false.”
Still, Democrats are holding webinars, lectures, and even a hearing on Project 2025.
In Georgia on Friday, Maya Carter and David Samuel led an information session on Project 2025, describing it in a slideshow as “the 922 Page Conservative Plan to Give Trump More Power Over Your Daily Life, Gut Democratic Checks and Balances, and Consolidate Power in the Oval Office.”
“It is taking control of our lives, our decisions, the way we associate,” Samuel said during the webinar.
When asked by Fenton why Democrats spend so much time criticizing Project 2025, Carter argued that Project 2025 and Agenda 47 are virtually the same.
“Agenda 47 is a dumbed-down version of Project 2025,” she said. “It’s got the same foundational blocks as Project 2025 has. It calls for an abortion ban, just like Project 2025 does.”
Fenton, however, interrupted Carter to point out an error in her claim.
“It doesn’t!” Fenton yelled, prompting Carter to walk back her claim that Project 2025 embraces a national abortion ban, albeit with another error.
“It [Project 2025] takes it back to the states, which in turn is an abortion ban by the federal government,” Carter said.
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and returned decisions on abortion to the states, some states have decided to enact no restrictions on abortion while others passed laws limiting abortion or banning the procedure altogether.
Carter said Project 2025 marks a “radical change” in the conservative agenda, moving away from the principles on The Heritage Foundation’s website—including “individual liberty” and “free-market economics”—and toward “controlling the government in order to own everything, to decide everything, and to push forward the agenda of family first.”
“However, we’ve seen that the Republican Party isn’t necessarily the family-first party,” she said. “So their new agenda is just, it’s about greed.”
The Daily Signal sought comment from the organizers of the webinar and the Georgia Democratic Party, but received no reply by publication time.
“The Left is obsessed with Project 2025 because they know its ideas, which are open to any candidate, would provide for effective conservative policy changes and help to reform an unaccountable Washington, D.C., bureaucracy,” a spokesman for Project 2025 told The Daily Signal.
