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New reporting this morning in BNN Bloomberg, based in part on Accountable.US research, outlines the cast of industry lobbyists and consultants Project 2025 has tapped to author policy platforms for key agencies in a potential future conservative administration. From the White House to the Department of Labor and beyond, Project 2025 leaders are pushing extreme deregulation as part of their broader industry-friendly agenda baked into the Project’s lengthy policy manifesto.

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Beyond its extreme far-right ideology, Project 2025 has given power to right-wing industry players so that big corporations and special interests can have even more control over our lives. Americans deserve to know who’s pulling the strings behind policy proposals for key agencies. Project 2025 would put everyday Americans at the mercy of big banks, big oil, and other special interests.”

Accountable.US executive director Tony Carrk

Project 2025 enables former Trump administration officials who currently serve corporate clients to be well-positioned to advance policies favorable to those same industries, including:

  • White House Office author Rick Dearborn, President Trump’s former Deputy Chief of Staff who is likely to play an influential role in a potential conservative administration, is now a partner at major lobbying firm Mindset. Dearborn has directly lobbied for corporate giants including Amazon Web Services, Citigroup, Meta Platforms, Shell USA, and Verizon. Dearborn called for “reversing regulatory policies in order to promote energy production,” a priority for corporate clients such as Shell.
  • Department of Labor author Jonathan Berry, a managing partner who focuses on “labor, employment, and benefit policy” at leading anti-regulatory law firm Boyden Gray PLLC and was the top policy official at the notoriously anti-worker Trump Department of Labor. Berry’s most extreme new policy prescriptions include granting states waivers from the Fair Labor Standards Act and National Labor Relations Act, allowing minors to do “inherently dangerous jobs,” blocking the Department’s enforcement of sex discrimination against LGBTQ workers, and more.
  • Department of Transportation author Diana Furchtgott-Roth, who advised controversial anti-regulatory Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and is president of an advisory services firm that frequently pushes pro-industry energy positions. Furchtgott-Roth’s most extreme recommendations include cutting public transit funding, breaking up the Federal Aviation Administration, rolling back “Vision Zero” efforts to reduce traffic fatalities, and more.
  • Department of Energy author Bernard L. McNamee, a partner at Biglaw firm McGuireWoods where he also serves as senior advisor for the firm’s consulting and lobbying practice. Their many clients include energy corporation Dominion Resources, which has paid the practice $670,000 over the course of the Biden administration. McNamee’s chapter calls for eliminating major Department of Energy offices working on energy efficiency and net-zero carbon goals, as well as explicitly demanding more funding for nuclear warhead deployment and ending nonproliferation efforts.

View the full report here.

Accountable.US launched its Expose Project 2025 campaign to uncover the sprawling dark money network and extreme figures behind the extreme Project 2025 effort threatening our democracy. Learn more at ExposeProject2025.org.

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