KFF Health News August 22, 2024
It has become a rhetorical theme for Democrats working to hold on to the White House: Allies of former president Donald Trump, they say, want to infuse conservative ideals into how the federal government does business.
That vision is outlined in the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership,” a 900-page blueprint produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation and other conservative organizations as a guide for the next administration.
Although Trump has repeatedly said Project 2025 has no place in his campaign, Democrats keep bringing it up. On each night of the Democratic National Convention so far, speakers have invoked Project 2025, with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) calling it “radical”; Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) holding up a bound copy of the...