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Project 2025 video: 'Eradicate' climate change references
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A training video associated with Project 2025 — a controversial playbook for a conservative presidency by the right-wing Heritage Foundation — calls for eliminating references to climate change in the federal government. |
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The video was published online this weekend by news outlets ProPublica and Documented. It was shared with the news outlets by a person who had access to them. The clip was reportedly part of Project 2025's Presidential Administration Academy, which seeks to prepare future political appointees to be part of a conservative administration. In the climate-related video, Bethany Kozma, who was deputy chief of staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development during the Trump administration, said: "If the American people elect a conservative president, his administration will have to eradicate climate change references from absolutely everywhere." Kozma added that climate change has "infiltrated" every part of the federal government and connected it to "population control." A Heritage Foundation spokesperson referred The Hill to the climate section of its publicly available document detailing its playbook, which similarly denounces what it describes as climate "alarmism" and "fanaticism" in the government. Read more in a full report at TheHill.com. |
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