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Trump transition team reveals it won't use Project 2025 to fill spots on administration
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0:51Now PlayingThe head of Donald Trump’s transition team has insisted a prospective Republican administration won’t even consider recruits from the “radioactive” Project 2025 database — prompting an insider to push back by saying the Heritage Foundation-led initiative has 18,000 Republicans involved and is “too big to fail” as a result.
“Heritage, because of Project 2025, is radioactive,” Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick told The Post Tuesday night in the spin room ahead of the CBS News vice presidential debate.
“As in, none, zero, radioactive. So that’s a clear position.”
The Trump team has claimed publicly for months it will not tap personnel vetted and trained under Project 2025 to fill executive branch positions, in part due to Democrats and the media accusing the policy book of being too radical on issues like abortion.
But one former member of the Trump presidential personnel office (PPO) told The Post that Lutnick’s blanket rejection was “bizarre,” claiming that “it would be impossible to do a transition without including Project 2025 people.”
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