Group of House Democrats Wants Carr Probed for Project 2025 Chapter

WASHINGTON, July 17, 2024 – Several House Democrats on Wednesday asked the Federal Communications Commission's ethics watchdog to investigate commissioner Brendan Carr for authoring a chapter of the conservative Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 public policy manifesto. 

The Heritage Foundation has produced similar Republican administration blueprints every election cycle since the 1980’s. This year’s slate of recommendations, once again called Mandate for Leadership, has drawn media attention for its sweeping anti-regulatory proposals and the ties of its authors to former president Donald Trump – many of them were former advisors and senior officials in his administration. Trump has publicly tried to distance himself from the project, claiming not to know who is behind it.