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4.4.25 <\/strong>\u2013 <\/strong>We are only three months into President Donald Trump’s second term, and we are already seeing several policies described in Project 2025 come to fruition. It’s a nearly 1,000-page document produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation and, despite Trump saying he’d never read it, many of its authors now work in his administration. As reporters scramble now to cover the many changes Trump has made from that instruction manual, we wanted to revisit our conversation last year about Project 2025 with two politics experts, hosted by Executive Producer Jeff Proctor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Correspondent:<\/strong>\u00a0Jeff Proctor\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guests:<\/strong>\u00a0
Martha Burk, Author, Host of the Podcast \u201cEqual Time with Martha Burk\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Dede Feldman, Democratic Former State Senator\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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