WATCH: What Is Project 2025 and Why Is It Dangerous?

0:00 | what about this project 2025 will you

0:02 | explain to people listening what that is

0:05 | this is the most advanced effort to

0:08 | prepare for an Administration that

0:10 | there’s been in history and it started

0:13 | even before Trump had clinched the

0:16 | Republican nomination so for years now

0:19 | this uh Project’s been underway so the

0:21 | project you mentioned project 2025 part

0:24 | of the Heritage Foundation like a very

0:26 | well-funded project and they are preting

0:30 | thousands of people that could come in

0:33 | to a trump Administration who could uh

0:36 | go in uh as top appointees top nominees

0:41 | and so they’re building this uh massive

0:44 | resume database on this side and then on

0:46 | the other side uh they and others are

0:49 | developing extremely detailed policy for

0:52 | what he did because this is what Jim

0:54 | said that the chaos of last time they

0:57 | recognized that that last time they need

1:00 | more discipline right and uh they they

1:04 | knew that like they couldn’t get a

1:06 | Republicans to agree they couldn’t get

1:07 | the administration to agree this time

1:09 | it’s going be much more organized and

1:13 | it’s going to be uh move fast they

1:15 | recognize how fast they’re going to have

1:17 | to move and one of the biggest things

1:19 | that they’ve said and axios has led uh

1:22 | on this and the New York Times has done

1:25 | great reporting on this is the effort to

1:27 | turn over the bureaucracy to push out

1:30 | so many uh people who in the past

1:34 | administrations have just accepted

1:36 | that’s what’s going to be there they’re

1:37 | going to turn that over uh they’re going

1:39 | to move fast on the border uh they have

1:43 | uh and at the Justice uh Department uh

1:46 | the way it’s been said to me is whatever

1:49 | you think is the most aggressive

1:51 | possible approach you can take on

1:53 | immigration his appointee is going to be

1:55 | even more aggressive and uh purposeful

2:00 | but is there cause for concern with this

2:03 | whole plan I mean it’s not just an

2:05 | ideology isn’t it sort of fty at all

2:09 | costs and how are they how are they

2:12 | looking for people who were will fill

2:15 | these important roles total fty it’s all

2:17 | I mean they’re very clear it’s a loyalty

2:19 | test like it is about like what do you

2:21 | think about Donald Trump and if you

2:23 | can’t pass that you’re not going to get

2:24 | into the government and it it’s a big

2:26 | deal because we’re not talking a couple

2:28 | hundred people we’re talking it could be

2:29 | tens of thousands of people and the way

2:31 | government operates is you have these

2:33 | obscure agencies that are by Design

2:35 | boring and should be boring and they’re

2:37 | staffed by career civil servants people

2:39 | who have domain expertise and a rich

2:42 | rich knowledge base Rich knowledge base

2:45 | so if you replace that with people who

2:47 | are just purely ideological then you can

2:49 | start to stretch the boundaries of what

2:51 | can you do through administrative action

2:53 | which doesn’t require Congress you can

2:54 | also stretch and they’re going to do it

2:56 | they’re going to try to figure out let’s

2:58 | do things that might not be ultimately

3:01 | legal but let’s have the courts render a

3:03 | verdict while we do it so even the

3:05 | firing of 40,000 people to like there’s

3:09 | a real legal case like can it be done

3:11 | can it not be done they’ll do it and

3:12 | then they’ll just go to the courts and

3:14 | hope that they win it and what it’ll do

3:16 | is it’ll just step way back the thing

3:18 | that I worry most about about the

3:20 | country is we basically are now on this

3:22 | 20-year path where we’ve basically lost

3:25 | faith in every institution media

3:27 | government Church boy SCS politicians

3:31 | you name it and so whenever you have

3:33 | people in a public setting who are

3:36 | continuing to be exceptionally

3:37 | derogatory about government making

3:40 | everyone think that everyone’s on the

3:41 | take making everyone think that

3:43 | everyone’s incompetent then you don’t

3:46 | get the really smart people who might

3:48 | want to come to work to government to

3:49 | make government work and so you end up

3:51 | with not Anarchy but you basically end

3:54 | up with a bunch of people who just feel

3:56 | like they can’t trust anything and you

3:58 | end up with nothing that unifies all of

4:01 | us and we’ve gone through periods like

4:03 | this in history but they’re dangerous

4:05 | periods because at the end of the day

4:07 | there are things where we have to be

4:08 | United to be able to to do it and where

4:11 | you do need a functioning government

4:13 | with AI man it’s going to be a big deal

4:16 | I wish I had smart people in government

4:17 | who are working on that and thinking

4:20 | about that and making sure that we win

4:22 | this AI war and China doesn’t that we do

4:24 | it responsibly and it doesn’t lead uh to

4:26 | mass unemployment for a big sector of

4:28 | people who just finally are rebounding

4:30 | from the manufacturing crisis that

4:31 | really hit them hardest right

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