Project 2025 is happening

KERA's Think

KERA

Society & Culture, 071003, Kera, Think, Krysboyd

4.8 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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It was a 900-page policy paper that President Trump disavowed during the campaign, but now Project 2025 is changing life in America. David Graham, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the document that offers a blueprint for the second Trump administration, how it wants to align the DOJ with the oval office’s desires, and how it envisions the country changing socially and economically. His book is “The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America.”

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0:00.0	In 2020, a group of young woman found themselves in an AI-fueled nightmare.
0:06.9	Someone was posting photos.
0:09.2	It was just me naked.
0:10.6	Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts.
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0:46.8	Trying to predict the future is nearly always a losing game, especially in moments of economic and political upheaval.
0:55.4	But if you want to understand what the second Trump administration has in store for the country, it might help to start with the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025. From KERA in Dallas, this is think. I'm Chris Boyd. The president did not write this
1:03.4	blueprint for change. Given that it's 900 pages, it is likely he's telling the truth when he insists
1:08.6	he hasn't even read it. But some of its authors are now occupying high-ranking positions within the Trump administration
1:15.1	and are moving rapidly to carry out many of its ideas
1:18.2	with the intention of changing the way this country works, socially, legally, and economically.
1:24.2	David Graham is a staff writer at The Atlantic and author of a book called The Project,
1:28.3	How Project 2025 is Reshaping America.
1:31.3	David, welcome back to think.
1:33.3	Thank you for having me.
1:35.3	The Project 2025 touches on everything, social policy and governance and public spending.
1:41.3	What are the proposed changes it contains supposed to achieve ultimately?
1:46.2	Like if Project 2025 were to be fully implemented and successful in transforming this country,
1:52.3	what sort of place would we be living in?
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