House Democrats step up to try to stop Project 2025 plans for a Trump White House
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Source: AP
Updated 1:53 PM EDT, June 11, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Warning about the far-right Project 2025 agenda for a Donald Trump White House, a group of House Democrats has launched a task force to start fighting the proposal and stop it from taking hold if the Republican former president returns to power.
Democratic Rep. Jared Huffman of California is unveiling The Stop Project 2025 Task Force on Tuesday, the latest sign that congressional Democrats and outside groups are treating Trump's campaign seriously in the expected rematch against Democratic President Joe Biden this fall.
"The stakes just couldn't be higher," Huffman told The Associated Press. Huffman said the Project 2025 agenda will hit "like a Blitzkrieg" and lawmakers need to be ready. "If we're trying to react to it and understand it in real time, it's too late," he said. "We need to see it coming well in advance and prepare ourselves accordingly."
The Democratic-led task force comes as groups on and off Capitol Hill are increasingly alarmed over Project 2025, a sweeping blueprint from the conservative Heritage Foundation that is preparing to quickly help staff a new GOP administration with plans for dismantling aspects of the federal government and installing loyalists for a second Trump term.
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Link to Task Force ANNOUNCEMENT - Congressional Leaders Form Task Force to Counter Project 2025 and Defend Democracy
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Updated 6:20 AM EDT, June 11, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Warning about the far-right Project 2025 agenda for a Donald Trump White House, a group of House Democrats has launched a task force to start fighting the proposal and stop it from taking hold if the Republican former president returns to power.
Democratic Rep. Jared Huffman of California is unveiling The Stop Project 2025 Task Force on Tuesday, the latest sign that congressional Democrats and outside groups are treating Trump's campaign seriously in the expected rematch against Democratic President Joe Biden this fall.
"The stakes just couldn't be higher," Huffman told The Associated Press. Huffman said the Project 2025 agenda will hit "like a Blitzkrieg" and lawmakers need to be ready. "If we're trying to react to it and understand it in real time, it's too late," he said. "We need to see it coming well in advance and prepare ourselves accordingly."
The Democratic-led task force comes as groups on and off Capitol Hill are increasingly alarmed over Project 2025, a sweeping blueprint from the conservative Heritage Foundation that is preparing to quickly help staff a new GOP administration with plans for dismantling aspects of the federal government and installing loyalists for a second Trump term.
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From that, the members are -
Jared Huffman
Ted Lieu
Diana DeGette
Mark Pocan
Pramila Jayapal
Jamie Raskin
Nanette Barragán
That is quite a mix of people across the spectrum of Democrats! 
This is quite an eclectic group. 
