Oct. 29, 2023 - Epoch Times
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| Unbeknownst to most people, outside of all these different talking points, well, right now, there is a real serious initiative being pushed forward to help dismantle the administrative state. | |
| This initiative is known as Project 2025, and if it actually comes to fruition, It'll have massive consequences on the type of country that our kids will actually inherit. | |
| Although, to explain why that is, I need to back up for a quick moment and set the stage free properly. | |
| Right now, with the presidential election starting to really kick into high gear, we're beginning to see the frontrunners of the Republican Party coalesce around a certain type of promise. | |
| That's because, whether it's President Trump, Governor DeSantis, or Vivek Ramaswamy, the current three frontrunners, they have all, in some way, shape, or form, promised to gut the deep state, otherwise known as the administrative state. | |
| And as a campaign promise, that's all well and good. | |
| Many people across the country support it. | |
| However, let's just assume for a super quick moment that a Republican candidate does go on to win the general election and becomes the 47th president of the country. | |
| Then what? | |
| Simply winning the White House does not necessarily mean that there will be broad changes to administrative policies, especially when you have an entrenched bureaucracy numbering in the hundreds of thousands that has formed over the last 100 plus years. | |
| And this administrative state, it has a clear liberal slant. | |
| In fact, according to data from the Federal Elections Commission, quote, A stunning 95% of political donations from federal employees went to Democratic liberal candidates. | |
| 95%. | |
| And so, with the massive growth of the federal government over the past 100 plus years, this has resulted in what some people refer to as the fourth branch of government, the bureaucratic branch, which is now dominated by liberal ideology. | |
| And this branch is large. | |
| Here's in fact how it's described over in the pages of the National Affairs magazine. | |
| Quote, It is fitting that we refer to the administrative state as a state, for it has become a sovereign power unto itself, an imperium, an imperio, regulating virtually every dimension of our lives. | |
| Its nearly 450 agencies are manned by legions of bureaucrats, now numbering almost 2.7 million. | |
| And so, millions of liberal bureaucrats, entrenched within the federal government, irrespective of who actually resides in the White House. | |
| And it's exactly this scenario, which has led to the birth of something called the Project 2025 Initiative. | |
| This is a very, very large-scale project that was launched by the Heritage Foundation, which, for your reference, is a conservative policy think tank. | |
| And Project 2025, otherwise known as the Presidential Transition Project, it aims to gut the federal government of its current progressive bureaucrats and replace them with conservative bureaucrats. | |
| And this initiative, which, just for your reference, is already well into full swing, it aims to do most of the heavy lifting prior to the actual election. | |
| Such that, if a Republican were to in fact get elected into the White House, they would have a database of conservative personnel to essentially deconstruct the administrative state starting on day one, as well as have in place a training program in order to recruit ever more people. | |
| And so, in order to get a better idea of how Project 2025 will work in practice, We took the opportunity to speak with Mr. | |
| Spencer Kradian, who is the Associate Director of the project over at the Heritage Foundation. | |
| And he broke down for us exactly what they're doing to dismantle the administrative state, as well as what people across America can do if they wish to get involved. | |
| And so take a super quick moment to smash those like and subscribe buttons and take a listen. | |
| Spencer, thank you so much for joining us. | |
| Maybe to start with, for the audience members who aren't aware of what it is, can you give sort of a high-level overview of what Project 2025 is? | |
| Sure. | |
| So, Project 2025, or the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, that's the full name, it really is the conservative movement's effort to get ready for the next conservative president. | |
| It feels like, in Washington, D.C., we're always playing an away game. | |
| We are always at a deficit compared to how the left is so good at going into government. | |
| So what this project is, it's four pillars. | |
| The first pillar is our policy book called Mandate for Leadership. | |
| This outlines what a conservative success looks like at each federal agency. | |
| We have a second pillar, which is our presidential personnel database. | |
| We're doing the work ahead of time and recruiting people ahead of time to come to Washington and work for the next conservative president. | |
| The third pillar is our presidential administration academy. | |
| That is training people up ahead of time so that we are ready to hit the ground running when we come to Washington with the next conservative president in 2025. | |
| And then the fourth pillar is what we call the playbook. | |
| That's a transition plan for each federal agency so that we'll be ready to hit the ground running. | |
| And all of these are available at project2025.org. | |
| That's how folks can get involved. |
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