US News: Director of Controversial Project 2025 Resigns from Heritage Foundation

Paul Dans, the architect and Director of the Project 2025, has resigned from his position at the Heritage Foundation. Project 2025, a 922-page policy blueprint for the next Republican administration, outlines radical reforms including dismantling the Department of Education and the Department of Homeland Security; bringing the entire federal bureaucracy under direct presidential control; slashing federal money for research and investment in renewable energy; halting sales of the abortion pill, and sweeping tax cuts.

Dans’s departure was confirmed by Dr. Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation. According to CBS News, Dr. Roberts said in a statement, “When we began Project 2025 in April 2022, we set a timeline for the project to conclude its policy drafting after the two party conventions this year, and we are sticking to that timeline,” Roberts said in the statement. “Paul, who built the project from scratch and bravely led this endeavor over the past two years, will be departing the team and moving up to the front where the fight remains.”

In his role as head of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project at Heritage, he organised policy and personnel recommendations and training for appointees in the next presidential administration, according to the think tank’s website.

Dans’ departure comes after former President Donald Trump has sought to distance himself from the project, CBS News reported. Trump’s campaign reiterated in a statement Tuesday that Project 2025 “had nothing to do with the campaign, did not speak for the campaign, and should not be associated with the campaign or the president in any way.”