You have probably started hearing about Project 2025 this week, as the Republican National Convention finalized Donald Trump's formal nomination.

Project 20025, spearheaded by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation and crafted by members of more than 100 conservative organizations, is a sweeping road map for a hypothetical second Trump term.

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It covers everything from building a database of like-minded conservative personnel to plans for dismantling federal agencies.

 The bio for the Project2025 x account reads: "Preparing to support the next conservative President with over 110 orgs for victories through policy, personnel, & training. Help decimate the deep state."

President Biden and top democrats are sounding the alarm about what could be in store for a second Trump administration.

However, former President Trump denies his ties to it and explains how it differs from the official Republican party platform. While Trump has aggressively tried to distance himself from the plan, Democrats are calling bluff.

"Why is the Republican platform 16 pages? Why? Because they have Project 2025?" said Democratic Nevada Assembly Candidate Erica Roth, "16 pages are a patently absurd plan for this country, and they don't need any more pages than that because they already have a 900-page document called Project 2025."

However, Trump campaign Deputy Communications Director Caroline Sunshine told us earlier this week that Trump is focused solely on the Republican 2024 Platform.

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"He doesn't have anything to do with Project 2025. What he does know; some of it he likes, and some of it he doesn't, but it's not something he has anything to do with," said Caroline Sunshine.

The 16-page 2024 Republican platform is less conservative than the 920-page Project 2025.

The Republican Platform explicitly states that there will be {1.} No federal abortion ban, leaving it up to the states, {2.} No attack on social security, {3.} no opposition to same-sex marriage, and {4.} No raising of the retirement age to 70.

"We know President Trump is trusted on those issues, and we know that those ideas, those common sense ideas; returning our border, low tax rate, let's keep the peace, let's not start new wars," said Sunshine.  

We spoke to Sam Brown about his stance on abortion, which falls in line with the Republican Party Platform.

"I've been so clear and consistent in my message that I will not vote for a national abortion ban. I believe that the issue of abortion and our laws should be decided by the voters of our states,' said Brown.

While Project 2025 doesn't explicitly call for a federal abortion ban, it would reverse FDA approval of the most commonly used abortion drug, Mifepristone - and would evoke an 1873 law to ban abortion medication and equipment from being sent by mail.

"When you look at what Trump did when he was president to take away women's rights, go after the Affordable Care Act, cut taxes for billionaires on the backs of the middle class: project 2025 is just an extension of what Donald Trump will do if he has the chance again," said Biden Harris 2024 National Press Secretary Kevin Munoz.

Project 2025 is a remarkably detailed outline for the next Republican presidential administration's plan to restructure the federal government and shift power heavily in favor of the executive branch.

Project 2025's four pillars are:

 1. Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.

2. Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the American people.

3. Defend our nation's sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats.

4. Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely—what our Constitution calls "the Blessings of Liberty."

 The policy guidebook outlines a far-right, Christian nationalist vision for America that would erode the separation of church and state, replace nonpartisan government employees with Trump loyalists, and bolster the president's authority over independent agencies.

 It contains anti-trans language and aims to remove critical race theory from public school education by abolishing the Department of Education.

"As I read Project 2025, I read it from my lens: as a black momma in America with bi-racial kids. What Project 2025 tells me is that who I am as an American citizen, who my family is, how we love, and we understand that love is love and that my multi-cultural bi-racial family would not matter," said Nevada Democrats Chair Daniele Monroe-Moreno. 

Former President Trump stated on Truth Social, "I have no idea who is behind it," despite the involvement of six of his former cabinet secretaries and over 100 former Trump administration staffers in crafting Project 2025.