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| President Trump is scheduled to address a joint session of Congress next month to lay out his priorities and vision for the country during his second term. | ||
| We'll have live coverage of the president's speech on Tuesday, March 4th, starting at 8 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN, along with a Democratic response and viewer reaction. | ||
| Her coverage will also stream live on our free C-SPAN Now video app and at our website c-span.org. | ||
| Paul Dance is back at our desk. | ||
| Mr. Danz, the last time you're here was June of 2024. | ||
| You were serving as the director of Project 2025, the presidential transition effort at the Heritage Foundation. | ||
| Can you just walk us through what happened with you and with Project 2025 in the months since then? | ||
| Well, you know, Project 2025 was a two and a half year effort. | ||
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We started back in the spring of 2022. | |
| It was really a coming together of citizens all over the country. | ||
| We ultimately became 110 groups, all focused on helping the next conservative president be ready to hit the ground running day one. | ||
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So what's happened, you know, we got a lot of work done and made a contribution. | |
| And very happy to see that these ideas have entered the bloodstream. | ||
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And what President Trump and his team is accomplishing right now is miraculous. | |
| I stepped down from the project in the end of summer 2024. | ||
| But, you know, what's going on, we have basically wrapped our work by then. | ||
| And I should say I no longer work at the Heritage Foundation, so the ideas today are my own. | ||
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But it's been fantastic to watch President Trump really move like Greece Lightning right now. | |
| How much of Project 2025 is evident in today being the first month of the Trump administration, the second Trump administration? | ||
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Well, this is all Donald Trump. | |
| If a man didn't get up and say fight, fight, fight, none of this would be happening. | ||
| So, you know, it's really the indomitable spirit of one man, but that's the essence of leadership. | ||
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Many of the ideas that we brought in Project 2025 are common sense. | |
| They're ultimately about bringing people back into our own government. | ||
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It's a government of, by, and for the people. | |
| And that was the central postulate of Project 2025, that we needed to deconstruct this unaccountable administrative state. | ||
| How do you deconstruct it? | ||
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Well, you start by making it transparent. | |
| And you have to show the rest of the country what's been actually happening here in Washington. | ||
| And that's part of the genius of Donald Trump and working with new folks like Elon Musk to really bring to the fore what we've all kind of suspected. | ||
| But, you know, what's being unearthed now is earth-shattering, really. | ||
| And, you know, we're seeing, we have a $2 trillion structural deficit in this country going on $50 trillion of debt. | ||
| Anybody who claims that the status quo defends the status quo and says this thing's working is either in on it or, you know, completely confused. | ||
| I guess the question is, is what we're seeing now, Project 2025, in action? | ||
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Well, it's common sense. | |
| There's a lot of commonality in the sense that what we put forward were in the main a lot of Trump ideas from term one. | ||
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So I think what you're seeing is aspirational hopes as well. |