Biden Campaign Takes Aim at Project 2025, a Set of Conservative Proposals

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Biden Campaign Takes Aim at Project 2025, a Set of ************* Proposals

Hours before the presidential debate on Thursday, President Biden’s campaign

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targeting Project 2025, a policy and staffing playbook assembled by allies of former President Donald J. Trump that proposes an overhaul of the government under a new *********** administration.

The Biden campaign’s website associates Project 2025 — a transition agenda compiled by the Heritage Foundation, a ************* think tank, and dozens of similarly aligned groups — with Mr. Trump, saying it would enable him to “gut democratic checks and balances, and consolidate power in the Oval Office.”

Project 2025 is not Mr. Trump’s official platform; his campaign instead points to

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, which focuses on substantially curtailing immigration and encouraging economic growth. But Project 2025 has nonetheless raised Democratic fears about what a second Trump term would look like.

************* policy groups in 2016 were largely unprepared for Mr. Trump’s win. Since its announcement in 2022, these groups prepared Project 2025, a

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outlining a ******** transformation of the executive branch. The platform proposes replacing many federal civil ******** jobs with political appointees who would be loyal to the president. The plan also proposes a cracking down on ********* rights, criminalizing ************, cutting climate research funding and eliminating the Commerce Department.

Detailed policy proposals rarely attract much attention, but Project 2025 has resonated in ******** social media circles. John Oliver released a “Last Week Tonight”

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last week that has more than five million views on

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. Charlamagne tha ****, a podcaster, has

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that the platform would enshrine an “authoritarian state” in America. Excerpts from Project 2025 have also gone viral on TikTok.

Sarafina Chitika, a spokeswoman for the Biden-Harris campaign, said that Project 2025 underscored the stakes of the 2024 election.

“The ********* people are tuning in to just how extreme and unpopular Donald Trump’s second-term playbook is — and they’re ready to stop him this November,” Ms. Chitika said in a statement.

It ******** to be seen if Mr. Biden will make Project 2025 a focus of his comments at the debate tonight.

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