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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was pressed about President Donald Trump seemingly changing his campaign position on Project 2025 amid the government shutdown Friday.

"During the campaign, President Trump said that he did not know anything about Project 2025. Now, he knows about it. Is that the blueprint for shrinking the government?" Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Leavitt during the press briefing Friday afternoon.

Project 2025 is a roughly thousand-page policy proposal crafted by the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank during the 2024 election cycle.

THE AGENCY STAFF VOUGHT MIGHT RECOMMEND CUTTING AND WHETHER THE CUTS WILL BE PERMANENT

Leavitt made no mention of the pol

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