Project 2025 Co-Author Says Donald Trump Very Supportive Of What We Do [Video]

A key author of a controversial blueprint for a second Donald Trump administration said he maintains close contact with Trump, despite the former president’s disavowals of his work.

Russell Vought, who helped write the Project 2025 policy agenda that includes the mass firing of federal workers, said he’s kept close ties to Trump since serving as the former president’s director of the Office of Management and Budget.

“I remember walking into our last day in office and told him what I was going to do. So, he’s very supportive of what we do,” Vought told an undercover reporter and an actor from the Centre for Climate Reporting, a British investigatory outlet.

Vought said his right-wing think tank, the Center for Renewing America, has been drafting hundreds of executive orders that could be used to enact mass firings and deportation of immigrants living in the country illegally. He said he would have no problem funneling the material to Trump.

“There are people like me that have his trust …