Tag Archives: Heritage Foundation

“You know, ultimately, we’re proud of the work. You know, I don’t want to bury the lede, but for two or three months as the left succeeded in mischaracterizing it, I mean, literally everything they said, it wasn’t fun. I mean, people threatened Heritage, they threatened to burn us down, all this kind of stuff, but I want to drive …

The Washington Post reports: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reoriented the U.S. military to prioritize deterring China’s seizure of Taiwan and shoring up homeland defense by “assuming risk” in Europe and other parts of the world, according to a secret internal guidance memo that bears the fingerprints of the conservative Heritage Foundation, including some passages that are nearly word-for-word duplications …

Politico Magazine reports: A year ago, Paul Dans was chief architect of what was shaping up to be the blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term. Eight months ago, he was sent into MAGA exile. Dans was the director of Project 2025 at the Heritage Foundation when, midway through the 2024 presidential campaign, he and his program started to become a …

The New York Post reports: Prince Harry can breathe freely in Montecito, because Trump has ruled out deporting the self-exiled British royal. Harry’s immigration status is the subject of litigation in Washington DC, with the Heritage Foundation alleging that he may have concealed past illegal drug use that should have disqualified him from obtaining a US visa. But the president …

USA Today reports: The Senate on Thursday confirmed Russell Vought, a key architect of Project 2025, to lead the White House Office of Management and Budget. Vought, 48, was confirmed by a vote of 53-47. He served in the same role during President Donald Trump’s first term and was responsible for overseeing the president’s budget, reviewing federal regulations and setting …

404 Media reports: Office of Personnel Management (OPM) memos sent to federal workers about firing, hiring freezes, and mandatory return to office demands were seemingly written by people who were previously employed by the Heritage Foundation and other conservative think tanks with longstanding loyalties to Trump, according to metadata on the memos posted by the government online. We know this …

The New York Times reports: Mr. Vought would bring a partisan and ideological viewpoint to the agency. A longtime fiscal hawk and self-described Christian nationalist, he previously worked for groups such as Heritage Action for America, the House Republican Conference and the Republican Study Committee. Mr. Vought founded the Center for Renewing America, a conservative think tank, and was an …

Politico reports: Donald Trump’s transition team has rejected a push to install a prominent Project 2025 author in a senior role at the Department of Health and Human Services over concerns that his strident anti-abortion views would prove too controversial. Anti-abortion groups had been lobbying Trump’s HHS secretary nominee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to select Roger Severino, a longtime anti-abortion …

NOTUS reports: Democratic operatives turned Project 2025 into an election season punching bag. Now, conservative trolls are turning it into a postelection punch line. Tweets are flying around X about how, actually, now that Donald Trump has won, Republicans can admit that Project 2025 really is the agenda. And the thing is, no one is laughing harder than the actual …

The Guardian reports: A new book by the chief architect of Project 2025, a hugely controversial policy plan for a second Trump term, repeatedly employs imagery of fire and burning, including calling for rightwingers to “burn away the rot” of American institutions and organizations deemed opposed to conservative aims. The news comes after a White House address on Thursday, two …

The Christian Post reports: Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts warned Americans in a Friday press call that Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president of the United States, is the most “anti-faith” presidential candidate in history and that her administration would lead to Christians losing their freedom to worship. Roberts described Harris as “the most anti-faith, anti-religion presidential …

Rick Hutzell writes for the Baltimore Banner: You could hear the spittle fly as the Heritage Foundation shouted out its latest intellectual assault on the Naval Academy. All over Ruth Ben-Ghiat and a lecture the midshipmen likely will never hear. She’s a New York University historian with a book on what happens to the military when authoritarians take power. She …

The New York Post reports: A conservative watchdog has unveiled a list of “radical leftist” officials working in or with the Department of Homeland Security — as immigration and the crisis at the southern border remain a top issue on the ballot this presidential election. The American Accountability Foundation launched a website Wednesday titled “The DHS Watchlist” featuring over two …

The Washington Post reports: The former director of the right-wing policy and personnel blueprint known as Project 2025 is condemning what he sees as “violent rhetoric” from Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts and calling on Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance to retract the foreword he wrote for Roberts’s book. “If we’re going to ask the left to tone it down, …

“I’ll also mention this about Project 2025. The left doesn’t yet understand that that personnel database isn’t going anywhere because I’ve had a half dozen governors, as you would appreciate, come to me and say Kevin, when all of this blows over, we would love some recommendations from these 110 organizations who’ve come together to do this.” – Heritage Foundation …

Reuters reports: An influential conservative think tank has asked the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to disclose what employees are discussing internally about billionaire Elon Musk and former President Donald Trump, according to federal records reviewed by Reuters. The effort, involving scores of Freedom of Information requests filed by the Heritage Foundation, is part of that organization’s ongoing push to …

The Guardian reports: The man behind Project 2025, the rightwing policy manifesto that includes calls for a sharp increase in immigrant deportations if Donald Trump is elected, told university colleagues about two decades ago that he had killed a neighborhood dog with a shovel because it was barking and disturbing his family, according to former colleagues who spoke to the …

The New York Times reports: In July, two men went door to door at a sprawling apartment complex in Norcross, Ga., an Atlanta suburb that is a hub for the region’s fast-growing Latino population, asking residents if they were U.S. citizens and whether they were registered to vote. Speaking in Spanish, often peeking from behind half-closed doors, seven people told …

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: With even Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump distancing himself from the Project 2025 manifesto, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts doubled down on the controversial blueprint for a Republican presidency on Thursday, saying that if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the election, “we’re going to have a press conference outside the White House announcing Project 2028.” …

The Indiana Capital Chronicle reports: A survey sent to Noblesville area voters from a national conservative think tank contends election fraud is on the rise as part of illegal attempts to steal elections. The D.C.-based Heritage Foundation also claims to be nonpartisan, though its website highlights conservative views numerous times. The survey and two-page letter also include inflammatory language such …