The key Project 2025 authors now staffing the Trump administration
Trump has invited some of the most prominent contributors to the Project 2025 playbook into his administration.
President Donald Trump disavowed the Project 2025 policy blueprint during his campaign last year as Democrats attacked the document and its contents. Since then, Trump has invited some of the most prominent contributors to the conservative playbook into his administration.
The document, which outlined a vision for a future Republican presidency, generally foreshadowed Trump’s sweeping moves to slash government agencies and cut federal funding in his first weeks in office, though there are also areas of departure.
As the dust settles after a whirlwind of Cabinet nominations, confirmation hearings and early administration actions, here’s where some prominent authors and contributors involved in Project 2025 have landed in the Trump administration.
As a principal author of Project 2025, Vought — Trump’s pick to direct the Office of Management and Budget in his first and second terms — wrote a chapter outlining plans to overhaul the executive branch and refocus federal agencies to serve the president’s agenda. In his chapter, Vought referred to OMB as “the president’s air-traffic control system,” with its director tasked with serving as “the keeper of ‘commander’s intent.’”
Vought wrote in the section that the next administration would require “boldness to bend or break bureaucracy to the presidential will” and “self-denial” to send power from Washington back to the hands of American families.
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