2024-08-09
23 分钟Project 2025 is a blueprint for the next conservative president of the US. The think tank behind it, The Heritage Foundation, has published a book, ‘Mandate for Leadership’. It’s an anthology of ideas that suggest sweeping changes to federal government, presidential power and US involvement in global affairs. Mandate for Leadership is a collection of policy ideas, written for any president to use once in office. Previous Republican administrations have implemented many of its action points. Project 2025 is divisive. Many see it as a way to strengthen the US constitution, but others fear it will dismantle it and invest irreversible power in the president. How might Project 2025 shape the US? Presented by Charmaine Cozier Produced by Louise Clarke Researched by Matt Toulson Editor Tara McDermott Technical producer Nicky Edwards Contributors: Don Moynihan, Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University in Washington DC Jeff Anderson, the President of the American Main Street Initiative Beau Breslin, Professor of Political Science at Skidmore College in upstate New York Heather Hurlburt, Associate Fellow at Chatham House (Image credit: AP)
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Welcome to the Inquiry.
I'm Charmaine Cozier.
Each week, one question, four expert witnesses, and an answer January 1981 during one of his first cabinet meetings as US President, Ronald Reagan hands out copies of a new book.
It's called Mandate for Policy Management in a Conservative Administration.
It's published by a non profit public policy group called the Heritage Foundation.
By the end of President Reagan's first year, around 60% of the book's 2,000 action points are in place or in Progress.
More than 40 years later, US voters are months away from choosing their next President and the 9th edition of Mandate for Leadership is a key part of a wider Heritage foundation plan called Project 2025.
Some see it as an essential recipe for political success.
Others view it as deeply unpalatable and dangerous.
This week we're asking how might project 2025 shape the future of part one?
Presidents and precedents.
The Heritage foundation is a large and very influential think tank, part of the conservative landscape in America.
It has hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, and historically it's played an influential role in shaping Republican presidents.
Don Moynihan is a professor at the McCourt School Public Policy at Georgetown University.
In Washington, D.C.
the mandate for Leadership document is not new.