Transition officials have used Project 2025's extensive personnel database for potential candidates to hire for the incoming administration, a person familiar the plans said.

Summary

Despite disavowing Project 2025 during the campaign, Trump’s transition team is now using its extensive database of vetted conservative candidates to help fill over 4,000 government positions.

Project 2025, criticized for its extreme policy proposals and links to Trump’s first administration, created a “conservative LinkedIn” of 10,000 candidates.

While some contributors are being tapped for key roles, others face rejection due to controversial stances.

Democrats, who used Project 2025 in campaign attacks, are warning of its influence on Trump’s agenda and planning policy responses.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    605·
    5 months ago

    Hope everyone is ready to suffer.

    I’d say blame it on conservatives. But you can also blame it on the absolute idiots that voted 3rd party, were single issue voters, or abstained from voting. They’re just as much to blame and just as stupid as Trump supporters.

    • AngryRobot@lemmy.world
      253·
      5 months ago

      I hate trump voters, but I hate the people who know how awful he is but stayed home even more.

      • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
        141·
        5 months ago

        “Genocide Joe” passed more meaningful legislation for average Americans then most presidents. But the conservative propaganda machine won and made him seem like the devil incarnate because stupid Americans can’t discern fact from fiction.

        • ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world
          8·
          5 months ago

          stupid Americans can’t discern fact from fiction.

          It’s almost as if all the attacks on education over the last 4-7 decades are bearing fruit.

    • witten@lemmy.world
      54·
      5 months ago

      In which state did 3rd-party voters tip the presidential election results there?

      • freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world
        57·
        5 months ago

        Your reading comprehension skills suck. The original commenter mentioned TWO types of idiots. 1) the morons that voted third party, and 2) the defectives that ABSTAINED from voting.

        I guess your brain only came equipped with 8GB of RAM, because you acted like OP gave you some clever GOTCHA moment by only mentioning 3rd party voters, while you completely disregarded OP including group #2 as well.

        In the future, I recommend you avoid complex tasks, like, say, chewing gum and walking at the same time.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    39·
    5 months ago

    And why should anyone be surprised?

    1. Rumor of shitty thing republicans are planning

    2. Republicans deny shitty thing is being planned, that was just (insert republican official here) brought up, claim it’s just the official on their own.

    3. Months later republicans are trying to officially enact shitty thing they denied planning.

  • Fester@lemm.eeEnglish
    36·
    5 months ago

    That’s always been his plan. And it’ll happen because these Heritage Foundation ghouls will run the government off-camera while Trump and his reality TV cabinet distract us with fights and absurd sound bites in between his golf rounds.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
    33·
    5 months ago

    Told and told and told by everyone with half a brain but as usual the nitwits wanna listen to the “entertainer”

    • emmy67@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      Honestly, a lot of centrist are. They also don’t expect any of it to actually be implemented. Cue those leopards

    • freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world
      74·
      5 months ago

      If you were one of those people who believed otherwise, you were probably one of those idiots taking every opportunity to share your fake concerns about genocide, and your intent to vote 3rd Party or not at all. Golf clap.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    5·
    5 months ago

    They never came up with any other plan, so they’re just going with what they’ve got. They haven’t been able to govern for more than a decade. They’re so fractured and have done nothing more than shit talk and blame, so no nobody is willing to try to get republicans to form a group capable of planning anything other than who to point fingers at.

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      They never came up with any other plan

      The guy said he had concepts of plans in a debate designed as a platform for candidates to let America know what their plans are.

      And then we elected him anyways.

      Americans are fucking stupid.

      Take politics and politicians out of the equation and you’re still left with stupid fucking Americans. And THAT is why we’re doomed in the long run.