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‘What a Joke’: Heritage Staffers Are Only Laughing About Project 2025 Now That Trump Has Won

Heritage staffer group chats have been filled in recent days with tweets admitting that, actually, the Trump agenda has always been Project 2025.

An auditorium at the Heritage Foundation.
An auditorium is seen before a Project 2025 Advisory Board meeting at Heritage Foundation headquarters in Washington, D.C. Francis Chung/POLITICO/AP

Democratic operatives turned Project 2025 into an election season punching bag. Now, conservative trolls are turning it into a postelection punch line.

Tweets are flying around X about how, actually, now that Donald Trump has won, Republicans can admit that Project 2025 really is the agenda.

And the thing is, no one is laughing harder than the actual staffers at The Heritage Foundation.