Project 2025 — you might be hearing about it and its potential effects. Vice President Kamala Harris brought it up Tuesday during her first campaign event as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

“We know we’ve got to take this seriously — and can you believe they put that thing in writing?” Harris said at the Milwaukee rally, referencing the 920-page policy blueprint, which was created by the conservative Heritage Foundation and lays out a far-right Christian vision for Donald Trump’s second White House term if he wins in November. It’s the latest “Mandate for Leadership” that the group has been releasing ahead of incoming presidential administrations since the early 1980s.

An Overview of the Effects of Project 2025

The blueprint suggests transforming the FBI into a politically motivated entity; abolishing the Department of Education; and dismantling the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association — which among other duties, tracks hurricanes — because it is part of a “colossal operation that has become one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.” It would bar U.S. citizens from receiving federal housing aid if they live with anyone who is not a citizen or permanent legal resident and potentially terminate the legal status of approximately 500,000 “Dreamer” immigrants.

Trump has tried to distance himself from this vision for his next presidency, writing on his social media site Truth Social, “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have not seen it, have no idea who is in charge of it, and unlike our very well received Republican Platform, had nothing to do with it.”

The views of Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, Trump’s pick for vice president, are in line with Heritage’s priorities. Vance has earned a 93 percent lifetime score from Heritage Action for America, the advocacy arm of the Heritage Foundation, during his short tenure in elected politics. The average score for a Republican senator is 61 percent.

But CNN found that at least 140 people who worked in the Trump administration contributed to Project 2025 in some way and will be responsible for the effects of Project 2025 should it be implemented. And, when Trump spoke at a Heritage Foundation dinner in 2022 as work on Project 2025 was underway, he said, “This is a great group and they’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do, and what your movement will do, when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America.” The Heritage Foundation is a Republican National Convention “partner” and will host a day-long policy conference in Milwaukee this week.

Read the full article about Project 2025 by Amanda Becker, Orion Rummler and Darreonna Davis at The 19th.