Project 2025 director steps down amid Trump campaign criticism

The director of the Heritage Foundation-led Project 2025, Paul Dans, is departing from the role, the conservative think tank’s president Kevin Roberts said Tuesday.

“When we began Project 2025 in April 2022, we set a timeline for the project to conclude its policy drafting after the two party conventions this year, and we are sticking to that timeline,” Roberts said in a statement.

“Paul, who built the project from scratch and bravely led this endeavor over the past two years...