Project 2025 leader steps down amid criticism from Trump

The leader of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 has stepped down amid unrelenting criticism of the program from former President Trump and Democrats’ continued efforts to link Trump’s campaign to the project.

Billed by Heritage as a blueprint for a future Republican administration to restructure many parts of the U.S. government, Project 2025, also known as the Presidential Transition Project, launched in April 2022 and is not associated with Trump’s campaign.

Trump called the program “absolutely ridiculous and abysmal” as the then-Biden campaign was zeroing in, pointing to the 900-page conservative plan to steer voters away from a second Trump administration.

TRUMP SLAMS HERITAGE FOUNDATION’S TRANSITION PLAN, CLAIMS PARTS ARE ‘RIDICULOUS’ AND ‘ABYSMAL’

Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, addresses delegates at the National Conservatism Conference on May 16, 2023, in London. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Kevin Roberts, president of Heritage, issued a statement Monday confirming that the project’s leader, Paul Dans, would be stepping down.