EXCLUSIVE: Project 2025, the right-leaning Heritage Foundation’s vision for building a “better country for all Americans” during a conservative presidential administration, will be releasing a response to critics who have characterized the endeavor as far-right and extreme.
While former President Trump has repeatedly denied any collaboration with Project 2025, its detractors are primarily on the left, Heritage Foundation officials said Wednesday.
The officials exclusively shared with Fox News Digital the dozens of fact checks they plan to roll out to blunt false claims about the framework.
The foundation, founded by former congressional aide Ed Feulner, who offered a vision of a publicly-accessible, market-driven think tank for conservatives, has released similar frameworks in election years dating back to the 1980s.
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The Heritage Foundation flag flies over a building July 30, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
While Trump’s campaign has warned “it will not end well” for anyone directly linking him to the framework overall, many left-wing figures have launched specific attacks on the 900-plus pages of proposals.
In regard to the GOP nominee, however, the makers of Project 2025 will attempt to point to multiple media fact checks confirming Trump is not behind it.
Also called the “Presidential Transition Project,” the dossier claims to be explicitly independent of the Trump campaign, and Heritage Foundation officials routinely reference “conservative” goals, not “Republican,”…
