A training video linked to “Project 2025,” a controversial playbook created by the right-leaning Heritage Foundation for future conservative presidents, calls for eliminating references to climate change across the federal government.
The video was published online by news outlets this weekend. ProPublica and DocumentationThe information was shared with news organizations by people who had access to it.
ProPublica and Documented reported that the video was part of Project 2025’s Presidential Academy of Government, which aims to prepare future political appointees to serve in conservative administrations.
In a climate-related video, Bethany Kosma, who served as deputy administrator of the United States Agency for International Development under Trump, said, “If the American people elect a conservative president, the administration will have to eradicate any mention of climate change from anywhere.”
Kosma added that climate change “permeates” every part of the federal government and is tied to “population control.”
A Heritage Foundation spokesperson directed The Hill to the climate section of a public document detailing the foundation’s strategy, which similarly denounces climate “alarmism” and “fanaticism” in government.
The think tank’s project has come under intense scrutiny, with Democrats pointing out that a number of former Trump administration officials are involved in the project and seeking to link the effort to former President Trump’s campaign.
The sweeping proposal calls for a range of reforms, from revoking federal approval of abortion pills to criminalizing pornography.
However, President Trump has distanced himself from Project 2025, saying, “I wish them the best of luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”
The Heritage Foundation has posted the project’s agenda online, with the public section calling for the “dismantling” of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the “disbanding” of most of the agency’s climate change research.
Trump himself has falsely referred to climate change as a “hoax.” Reporting during my term of office They noted that references to climate change have been removed or downplayed from various federal government webpages.
