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Project 2025 is still alive and well and Demolishing an Agency somewhere near you [1]
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Date: 2025-02-08
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Paul Dans:
Former Director, 2025 Presidential Transition Project
Paul was Director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project at The Heritage Foundation.
https://www.heritage.org/staff/paul-dans
by Alec MacGillis, propublica.org — Aug. 1, 2024
https://www.propublica.org/article/project-2025-trump-campaign-heritage-foundation-paul-dans
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The most important pillar of Project 2025 has always been about personnel, not policy. Or rather, the whole effort is animated by the Reagan-era maxim that personnel is policy, that power flows from having the right people in the right jobs. To that end, the plan’s most pertinent proposal is reinstating Schedule F [...] — defining the new employment category so broadly that it could encompass far more than 50,000 positions. “It will be a purge,” she said.
This was what [Paul] Dans wanted the Heritage staffers gathered in the room and the tech engineers they’d contracted from Oracle to build: the engine of Trump 2.0. It would be a personnel machine not only far beyond what the first Trump administration had at its disposal, but beyond what any other administration had enjoyed, either. According to one person in attendance, the database would take several months to build and would cost upward of $2 million. It would reach outside the usual channels to draw in MAGA believers from across the country. And Dans was at the helm . “There was no one who had a better idea of it than he did,” the person in attendance told me. “He was driving the whole thing.”
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Donald Devine, who led OPM during the Reagan administration and whom the Trump administration had brought on as an adviser during this period [...] — Dans’ only problem, Devine said, was that he ran out of time. “The major things were going to be done the next term,” he said. “It was too late to do anything before they figured out how to run personnel.” [OPM]
After the election, Dans stayed hard at work at OPM, even as other appointees started to vanish in the final weeks of the Trump administration. Since then, Dans has criticized prosecutions of those involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. “The unfortunate thing is it does send a message to people that you shouldn’t criticize the government,” he said in a C-SPAN interview last year.
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