Al Franken - David A. Graham on What Project 2025 Wrought

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Throughout the 2024 election, we all heard about the dangers of Project 2025, yet somehow it’s worse than we imagined. Trump continuously said he didn't know anything about it (but he did), and nearly a year after his swearing in, we've seen a huge portion of it already implemented. We're joined by The Atlantic’s David A. Graham, author of the new book, “The Project: How Project 2025 is Shaping America.”

In just 138 pages, David covers the entire 920-page document. He explains how many of the authors of Project 2025 saw Trump's first term as a failure because he was stopped from accomplishing his core goals - like building the border wall and repealing Obamacare. The answer was to create a shadow administration that would guide his policy decisions if he made it back to office.

We run through a variety of issues that are being influenced by Project 2025, including immigration and border security, education, and trade. And we discuss the most influential figure, Russell Vought, current Director of the Office of Management and Budget. One of his main priorities? Inflict pain on government employees.

And, Al remembers his friends, Rob and Michele Reiner. - 12/21/2025.


READ David's book, “The Project”: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/800230/the-project-by-david-a-graham/

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1. there is reported to be a "project 2026"

and why not? charles koch is older and more demented than even trump

Among the think tanks and public policy organizations Charles and David Koch have been involved in, and/or provided funding to include: the Cato Institute (they provided the initial funding), the Federalist Society (they are key donors).[110] They also support, or are members of, the Mercatus Center,[111] the Institute for Humane Studies,[111] the Institute for Justice,[112] the Institute for Energy Research,[113] The Heritage Foundation,[114] the Manhattan Institute,[114] the Reason Foundation,[111] the George C. Marshall Institute,[115] the American Enterprise Institute,[115] the Fraser Institute,[116][117] and the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust.[118][119] As of 2015, David Koch sat on the board of directors of the Cato Institute,[120] the Reason Foundation and the Aspen Institute.[121] A 2013 study by OpenSecrets said that nonprofit groups backed by a donor network organized by Charles and David Koch raised more than $400 million in the 2011–2012 election cycle.[113]