Project 2025 leader says Trump very supportive of their work and lays out plans if he returns to White House [Video]

A leader of Project 2025 told undercover reporters that Donald Trump is “very supportive” of their work despite the former president publically distancing himself from the conservative policy agenda.

An undercover journalist and a paid actor from the Centre for Climate Reporting pretended to be relatives of a wealthy donor when they set up a meeting with Russell Vought at a five-star hotel in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, last month.

Vought headed the Office of Management and Budget during the second half of Trump’s first term and has been tipped as a possible chief of staff in a second Trump administration.

Project 2025 consists of roughly 900 pages of reports that the Heritage Foundation think tank aims to have turned into policy in a future Republican administration. Think tanks in Washington often write up policy ideas hoping that they may become legislation.

It includes proposals for shutting down the Department of Education and federal limits on abortion. Democrats have used the plans to attack the Trump campaign …