During the campaign, President-elect Donald Trump had hailed what would become Project 2025 as a conservative roadmap for “exactly what our movement will do."

Russell Vought, who would lead the Office of Management and Budget, has spent years building plans to rework the American structure of government in ways that would enhance presidential power.

The president-elect is staffing his administration with people affiliated with the controversial policy and personnel blueprint that he had disavowed on the campaign trail.