Trump's MAGA allies gloat Project 2025 "is the agenda"

• Meanwhile, Democrats pointed to the Heritage Foundation's 900-page wishlist as proof that a second Trump term would upend American life and be a threat to democracy.

Driving the news: Less than 24 hours after Trump's victory, his allies and other right-wing commentators began to brag about implementing the radical policy agenda.

• "Now that the election is over I think we can finally say that yeah actually Project 2025 is the agenda. Lol," Matt Walsh, a right-wing podcast host, wrote on X Wednesday.
• Ex-Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon praised Walsh and amplified his post during his "War Room" podcast Wednesday, telling his staff to promote Walsh's comment on social media.
• Right-wing influencer Benny Johnson also chimed in on X on Wednesday: "It is my honor to inform you all that Project 2025 was real the whole time," he wrote.
• Bo French, a Texas GOP official who came under fire recently for using slurs to describe gay people and people with disabilities, wrote on X Wednesday: "So can we admit now that we are going to implement Project 2025?"

State of play: Project 2025 outlines a plan to greatly expand the power of the executive branch and allow the president to override checks that typically would limit his power.

• It also includes recommendations for dissolving the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shrinking the social safety net, ending student debt relief, deporting immigrants and aggressively curtailing abortion protections.

Go deeper: How Project 2025 would change American life