Trump Distances Bid From Second-Term Agenda Pushed by Allies
- Project 2025 offers sweeping plans for overhauling government
- Despite Trump pushback, former advisers contributed to project
Donald Trump denounced a sweeping policy agenda crafted by some of his closest White House advisers that proposes a massive overhaul of the federal government and stacking agencies with loyalists to the former president.
“I know nothing about Project 2025,” the presumptive Republican nominee said Friday in a post on his Truth Social platform, in the wake of controversial comments from a prominent conservative spearheading the project.