CNN's Alyssa Farah Griffin: Project 2025 is “a very, very scary thing that’s actionable and ready to go by Donald Trump”
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Citation From the July 11, 2024, edition of CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper
JAKE TAPPER (HOST): Alyssa, Trump, of course, continues to claim he hasn't seen Project 2025, he doesn't know anything about it. He's called it quote, "ridiculous and abysmal," Project 2025. You worked for President Trump in the White House, why do you think Trump doesn't want it to be linked to this?
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN (GUEST): Well, there's some very controversial parts of it. One is eradicating Social Security, which he knows is obviously a political loser. But listen, people deeply connected to Donald Trump were part of this. He obviously praised it. He's going to be the first to tell you that Agenda 47 is actually his plan and platform.
But the key part of Project 2025 that Adam's hitting on, I think is the most important part for Americans to understand is this reshaping of the federal government. And I saw the actual executive order at the end of the last administration, ready to go, that would remake every civil servant into a political appointee and a loyalist to Trump. And it goes beyond Social Security and some of these technical things. It's the national security apparatus, it's our emergency management, it's FEMA, it's responding to natural disasters, pandemics. Those would all be our subject matters, the Dr. Faucis of the world would be replaced with whatever loyalist he puts into those positions. So, it's a very, very scary thing that's actionable and ready to go by Donald Trump.