Trump's Protests Aside, His Agenda Has Plenty Of Overlap With Project 2025

Donald Trump insists that Project 2025, a nearly 1,000-page blueprint for a hard-right turn in American government and society, does not reflect his priorities for a White House encore.

"I haven't read it. I don't want to read it - purposefully," the Republican presidential nominee said Sept. 10 on the debate stage .

Yet from economics, immigration and education policy to civil rights and foreign affairs, there are common ideas and shared ideology between Project 2025 and Trump's outline for another term - from his official "Agenda 47" slate, the Republican platform he personally approved and his other statements.

There are also differences Project 2025, led by the Heritage Foundation and written by many conservatives who worked in or with Trump's administration, offers more particulars on some issues than the former president.

Here's a look at how Trump's 2024 campaign and Project 2025 align and deviate