Top Trump campaign leaders spent much of 2024 livid at The Heritage Foundation for publishing a book full of unpopular proposals that Democrats tried to pin on the campaign to warn a second Trump term would be too extreme. “I know nothing about Project 2025,” Trump insisted in July 2024. Trump administration uses the shutdown to further its goalsSince his swearing in, Trump has been pursuing plans laid out in Project 2025 to dramatically expand presidential power and reduce the size of the federal workforce. Vought told House GOP lawmakers in a private conference call Wednesday that layoffs would begin in the next day or two. Dreaming of this momentThe moves are part of a broader effort to concentrate federal authority in the presidency, which permeated Project 2025.