Colin Seeberger of the Center for American Progress discusses the controversial Project 2025

News & Views

Colin Seeberger (Courtesy photo)

If you’ve been hearing a lot about something called Project 2025 of late, there’s good reason. It’s a 922-page policy blueprint from the far-right Heritage Foundation that its authors hope will serve as a lengthy “to do” list for a second Trump administration. The team that wrote it includes scores of former Trump staffers and prominent Republican leaders.

And in a host of vitally important areas – from education to the environment to reproductive freedom to the very future of democracy – it’s a frightening scheme to behold. This week’s edition of News & Views is dedicated to an examination of Project 2025 and we commence our review with an overview conversation with the senior adviser for Communications at the Washington, DC-based Center for American Progress, Colin Seeberger.

In Part One of our recent conversation with Seeberger of the Center for American Progress, we examined how Project 2025 — a detailed and often frightening blueprint for remaking the U.S. government under a conservative president – would alter and threaten basic and long-established norms of
American democracy.

In Part two of our chat, we examined some of the many dramatic changes that Project 2025 would inflict on an array of core rights and public services – including K-12 education, the social safety net, reproductive freedom, and the nation’s response to the global climate emergency.