Heritage President Kevin Roberts: “It would be very difficult” for the Trump administration to make policy “without at least consulting” Project 2025
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From Bloomberg Podcasts' Balance of Power, posted to YouTube on November 11, 2024
JOE MATHEIU HOST): We had heard from the transition team that no one from Project 2025 was invited, now we’ve got Homan, that apparently was not the case. Have you talked to Donald Trump since he won?
KEVIN ROBERTS: We’ve not spoken yet but I anticipate that we will.
MATHEIU: I mean he’s got to be pretty keyed up on what Heritage is offering here. He was on the record when the team was trying to distance itself from you – I have no idea who is behind it, he put on X, I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Do you have a sense of what he likes or doesn’t like here?
ROBERTS: I think the key thing is that President Trump saw the branding as a liability in the political season but I also would anticipate moving forward that the president-elect and vice president-elect with whom we maintain great relationships will also understand that it’s the policymaking season that Heritage and all of the other groups that are a part of our project are built for.
And if they’re looking, for example as President Trump said this morning, for a plan to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, we know exactly where he can go for that plan. Totally up to him about whether he uses the plan.
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All of the political calculations of the last few months which were very understandable and about which we have no hard feelings are in the past. We’re now in the policymaking season, we think this is the beginning of a golden era of conservative reform. I will say that because the work of Project 2025 represents the conservative movement, it would be very difficult for anybody to implement policies on education, on the border, on taxation, without at least consulting those ideas and people.