What Next | Project 2025’s Plan for Your Family

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Despite what Trump said on the campaign trail, his administration seems to be working right out of Project 2025, where the first goal is to “Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life—and protect our children.” What does this mean in action? It starts with a very specific type of “family.” Guest: David Graham, Atlantic staff writer and author of the forthcoming book, The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America. Want more What Next? Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to What Next and all your other favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the What Next show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, Ethan Oberman, and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.5	Right after President Trump got elected in November, the Atlantic's David Graham gave himself
0:42.1	an assignment. Read all 922 pages of Project 2025's Mandate for Leadership, cover to Cover.
0:53.0	It took, I don't know, maybe a couple weeks to get through all of it.
0:58.0	And it's interesting because there's parts that are very easy reading and parts that are
1:01.6	really technical, and those ones took a little bit longer.
1:05.8	How good of a predictor has Project 2025 turned out to be for what's actually happened in the second Trump
1:12.6	administration.
1:13.8	I think it has been a really good predictor for what Trump will try to do.
1:18.8	For instance, one of the four goals listed at the very beginning of this document is dismantling
1:25.5	the administrative state.
1:29.4	I think firing tens of thousands of federal workers checks that box. Another big goal, defend our nation's sovereignty against global threats.
1:38.2	Those threats include everything from open borders to environmental extremism.
1:50.8	But there's one goal in here that David thinks has not gotten enough attention.
1:55.4	A goal he thinks this administration is likely to turn to next.
1:57.9	It's the very first goal.
2:04.1	Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.
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