MAGA Says Project 2025 ‘Is the Agenda’

Project 2025 is actually “the agenda,” a prominent MAGA figure has said, despite Donald Trump repeatedly denying any connection with it during the election campaign.
And ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon has strongly endorsed the comment by conservative political commentator Matt Walsh, who said on X, formerly Twitter: “Now that the election is over I think we can finally say that yeah actually Project 2025 is the agenda.” Walsh’s post had 5.9 million views and 6,800 reposts.
Project 2025, a manifesto which was created by the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation for the next Republican president, has been strongly criticized by many across the political spectrum including Trump himself for some of its proposals which include an overhaul of federal government and federal policies that target the use of abortion pills.
Trump has said he has no associations with it multiple times, calling some of the ideas “absolutely ridiculous and abysmal” in July, but Democrats have pushed back on this, saying many of the President-elect’s former aides are leading the project.
Bannon, who was recently released from prison after serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress, cited and endorsed the post on his podcast Bannon’s War Room.
He said: “Matt Walsh, I think, is a very smart and funny guy, just put up on Twitter: ‘Now that the election is over, I think we can finally say that yeah actually Project 2025 is the agenda’.”
“Fabulous,” Bannon added, before telling his team to “put that everywhere.”
Walsh does not have any formal role on Trump’s team, but he is a significant figure in MAGA-supporting media with 3.2 million followers on X, formerly Twitter, and he hosts the daily podcast The Matt Walsh Show, produced by the network The Daily Wire.
Newsweek has contacted Trump’s team, via email, for any response.
The Heritage Foundation’s president Kevin Roberts congratulated Trump on his victory, after he achieved what has been dubbed the greatest political comeback in U.S. history.
“President Trump has achieved a historic and hard-fought victory: overcoming four sham indictments, surviving two assassination attempts, and overcoming an unprecedented midrace candidate swap to become the first president since Grover Cleveland to win two nonconsecutive terms,” Kevin Roberts said in a statement issued Tuesday evening.
Project 2025’s 900-page document contains 30 essays penned by various conservative political thinkers and former officials, which together outline ways in which the federal government could be reshaped to tackle the “moral and foundational challenges America faces in this moment of history.”
The document’s recommendations on abortion, immigration and executive control over the federal bureaucracy saw it dubbed by the ACLU “a road map for how to replace the rule of law with right-wing ideals,” and attempts to link the project with Trump became a key line of attack for Democrats throughout the campaign.
Newsweek has contacted The Heritage Foundation, and representatives for Roberts, via email, for comment.