Not Project 2025 rearing its ugly head all the way in 2026.

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Project 2025 calls to delete "the terms sexual orientation and gender identity, diversity, equity, and inclusion, gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, [and] reproductive rights ... out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists," and dismantling USAID's "DEI apparatus."

According to Project 2025, "the next conservative Administration should withdraw the U.S. from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement."

Vought is not the only member of the second Trump administration with ties to Project 2025. FCC Chair Brendan Carr, Border Czar Tom Homan, and SEC Chair Paul Atkins also contributed to the document, among others in the Trump sphere.Β 

The quotes below can be found in this PDF on pages 158–159.