Kirk participated in a Project 2025 training video, obtained by ProPublica and Documented. He went on: “This man helped write the Project 2025 playbook for seizing control of the federal workforce. “Interior’s watchdog was fired, left vacant for eighteen months, and is now hosting one of the architects of Project 2025,” Weiss said. One investigation request Weiss mentioned concerned reporting from Politico that Interior Department staffers would routinely shred official documents and use disappearing Signal messages. The Daily Beast has reached out to the Interior Department for comment.