Trump keeps denying he has connections to Project 2025, the far-right conservative policy playbook for a second Trump administration written by dozens of his former employees.
But it doesn’t help his case that Vance has tapped a Project 2025 contributor to help him prepare for his Oct. 1 vice presidential debate.
Vance will reportedly participate in a mock debate later this week, with House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) playing the role of Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz and Monica Crowley playing the role of a moderator. Crowley, who previously served as Trump’s assistant secretary for public affairs at the Treasury Department, is a contributor to Project 2025.
In fact, Crowley gets a special shout-out in The Heritage Foundation’s 920-page policy roadmap, which bills itself as “the conservative movement’s unified effort to be ready for the next conservative Administration to govern at 12:00 noon, January 20, 2025.”
“All contributors to this chapter are listed at the front of this volume, but Monica Crowley, Tom Dans, John Berlau, Austin Bramwell, Preston Brashers, Alexandra Harrison Gaiser, Nathan Hitchen, Adam Korzeniewski, and Jonathan Moy deserve special mention,” reads an author’s note at the bottom of page 710, which marks the end of a chapter on the Treasury Department.
Among other things, this chapter proposes the Treasury Department “withdraw from both the World Bank and the IMF,” but also “force reforms and new policies” at both institutions. This chapter also calls on a second Trump administration to withdraw from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement, and instead “use Treasury’s tools and authority” to promote investment in domestic energy, including oil and gas.
