The Heritage Foundation’s advocacy arm did not say whether it would comply with a request from House Democrats to meet with the foundation’s president, Kevin Roberts, about the conservative think tank Project 2025.
A Heritage Foundation spokesperson declined to comment Wednesday to Fox News Digital about the letter, which said about 40 House Democrats were writing to “inviting members of Congress to meet with them to discuss the Project 2025 presidential transition project.”
“The contents of this transition plan would permanently damage the way our federal government operates and directly impact every district,” said the letter, led by Reps. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.
“Our office is hearing more and more from constituents concerned about the impact Project 2025 will have on the future of our nation. Many of them see Project 2025 as an extreme takeover plan that would dismantle checks and balances, consolidate unprecedented presidential power and take complete control of our government and our daily lives.”
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House Democrats Jared Huffman (left) and Ayanna Pressley (right) led a delegation of about 40 lawmakers in requesting a meeting with Heritage Institute President Kevin Roberts (center). (Getty Images)
The initiative is a series of proposals outlining right-wing policy goals and recommendations for a new Republican administration, sparking a fierce political debate in the midst of the 2024 presidential election cycle.
Former President Trump and senior campaign officials have criticized and distanced themselves from the plan, but that hasn’t stopped Democrats from using it as a political cudgel to accuse Republicans of embracing extremism.
Project 2025 is divided into four parts: policy recommendations, a “Presidential Personnel Database” with recommendations for vacant executive branch positions, an “Academy” to train new political appointees, and a roadmap for the first 180 days in office.
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Former President Trump rejected Project 2025. (Donald Trump 2024 Election Campaign)
According to the committee’s website, its proposed reforms include abolishing the Department of Education and dismantling the Department of Health and Human Services’ Task Force on Reproductive Health Care Access, and instead creating a commission to recommend pro-life reforms “to ensure that all departments of the department use their authority to promote the lives and health of women and unborn children.”
The Democratic letter accused Roberts of not being forthright about the fourth pillar of Project 2025, which details the first 180 days of a Republican administration. But the Project 2025 website said details of that section were available in the Heritage Foundation’s book, “A Call to Leadership: A Conservative Promise.”
“It is time to stop hiding the truth about what we fear may very well be the most radical, extreme, and dangerous parts of Project 2025. If we are wrong – if the secret ‘fourth pillar’ of Project 2025 is in fact a defensible, responsible, and constitutional plan of action for the first days of Trump’s second term as president – then we ask that you release it, unredacted and unedited, so the American people can see and scrutinize it,” the letter said.
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“Please show this document to your members of Congress so we can discuss it with you and the growing number of constituents who want to understand what Project 2025 will mean for their government and their lives.”
Another House Democrat effort, the Task Force to Stop Project 2025, was panned by Roberts as “not serious.”
“It’s funny to see the left freak out that a conservative policy group is advocating for conservative policies, yet instead of addressing the problems created by this administration and Congress, House Democrats are using taxpayer money to launch a smear campaign against a united effort to restore self-governance to ordinary Americans,” Roberts said in June.
