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CV NEWS FEED // If Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election, the Catholic president of the think tank Heritage Foundation has a comprehensive plan to help him “reshape” the federal government in a conservative vision.
According to Wyoming journalism outlet WyoFile, “If Donald Trump is reelected, Heritage under Roberts is uniquely poised to be the main policy and personnel engine for the new administration, just as it was for Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.”
Edwin J. Feulner Jr. founded the The Heritage Foundation in 1973. The nonprofit specializes in public policy research with interests of protecting individual rights and traditional conservative values. The Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025, Presidential Transition Project” aims at providing the Trump administration with a detailed agenda to combat the “radical Left.”
The Project has a “180-Day Playbook” that details specific recommendations of what must be done within the first half-year of Trump’s administration “to bring quick relief to Americans suffering from the Left’s devastating policies.”
Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts went viral in January for giving a speech at the World Economic Forum that heavily criticized the global “elites” present for causing many of the problems they allegedly sought to solve.
Roberts has been the active president of the Heritage Foundation since October 2021. He is also president emeritus of Wyoming Catholic College.
Per WyoFile:
Before Reagan was first elected president in 1980, then Heritage Foundation president Feulner — whom Roberts refers to as his “mentor” — presented the new administration with a 3,000-page “Mandate for Leadership” document that contained 2,000 specific policy recommendations.
Reagan distributed the document at his first cabinet meeting and essentially adopted the mandate as his executive operating manual for the next eight years.
The Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” is approximately 1,000 pages long. According to WyoFile, “Roberts hired two former Trump administration insiders” to spearhead the new document project.
The project’s leader is Paul Dans, “a South Carolina attorney who served in the Trump administration as chief of staff at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management,” WyoFile reported. “Associate Project Director Spencer Chretien served in the White House as special assistant to Trump and associate director of presidential personnel.”
WyoFile asked Roberts to explain why Wyoming voters supported Trump in the 2020 election despite Trump’s personal life often not reflecting Christians values.
“I presume that conservative voters — and voters period — in Wyoming understand they’re selecting a president of the United States, not the pastor for their church,” Roberts responded.
“Some of us might wish in an ideal world that the two be the same, or, you know, maybe someone from your perspective might say just an ideal citizen, whatever the characterization would be,” Roberts continued:
And I understand and respect that, but I think the real key thing for people in Wyoming is they understand that the country’s on fire, largely figuratively, but in some inner cities, literally.
