The Shitty Fingerprints Of Trump's Cronies All Over Project 2025 He Denies Knowing Anything About
Former President Donald Trump says he knows “nothing about” a conservative policy blueprint and has “no idea who is behind it.” But the authors include Trump’s former Cabinet secretaries, top White House officials and senior aides — including former Trump appointees to EPA, the Interior Department and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Trump’s efforts to distance himself from Project 2025, a policy blueprint organized by the conservative Heritage Foundation, come as Democrats are seizing on pieces of the framework to attack Trump on policy and as the Biden campaign aims to shift focus away from questions about his age and mental acuity following the presidential debate.
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Gunasekara
Gunasekara was chief of staff at Trump’s EPA before she penned the Project 2025 vision for downsizing that agency and overhauling President Joe Biden regulations. EPA, she wrote, has “long been amenable to being coopted by the Left for political ends against the need to implement the agency’s true function: protecting public health and the environment in cooperation with states.” She encouraged a realignment of the agency “away from attempts to make it an all-powerful energy and land use policymaker and returned to its congressionally sanctioned role as environmental regulator.” Among other things, the blueprint recommends eliminating the stand-alone Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, developing a plan to relocate EPA’s regional offices “so that they are more accessible to the areas they serve,” and resetting science advisory boards.
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William Perry Pendley
Former Trump Interior official Perry Pendley wrote in the Project 2025 blueprint that the next Republican president should slash the footprint of national monuments and move to bar future presidents from wielding executive power to protect federal lands. He called the Biden Interior Department “at war with the department’s mission” when it comes to fossil fuel extraction and urges a conservative president to pursue the “restoration of the department’s historic role managing the nation’s vast storehouse of hydrocarbons, much of which is yet to be discovered.” Perry Pendley led the Bureau of Land Management under Trump, although he was never confirmed by the Senate and a judge ruled that he had unlawfully served in that job. A new administration must “immediately roll back Biden’s orders,” reinstate “the Trump-era Energy Dominance Agenda” and put a series of Trump-era secretarial orders back into place, he wrote in Project 2025.
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Bernard McNamee
McNamee, a Trump pick for FERC, urged the next administration to repeal Biden’s climate and infrastructure laws and to boost domestic energy production. “DOE, instead of focusing on core energy and security issues, has been spending billions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize renewable energy developers and investors, thereby making Americans less energy secure and distorting energy markets,” McNamee wrote in the Project 2025 energy section he authored. McNamee, who also served in the Energy Department during Trump’s presidency, wrote that the next administration should “eliminate political and climate-change interference in DOE approvals of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports” and “stop using energy policy to advance politicized social agendas.”
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https://www.eenews.net/articles/meet-the-ex-trump-officials-who-helped-draft-project-2025/