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Republicans on the House Oversight Committee selected four leaders with ties to Project 2025 to testify at a hearing on the so-called policy failures of the Biden Administration. The witnesses include:

  • Brendan Carr, a commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), authored Project 2025’s manifesto for the FCC. His policy proposals align with conservative talking points about social media platforms censoring conservatives. Members of Congress have criticized his involvement as a potential violation of the Hatch Act and other ethics rules. 
  • Mark Krikorian is the director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group, and a Project 2025 Advisory Board member. Six CIS staff members – at least two of whom have made extreme and even racist comments –  were contributors to Project 2025.  
  • Mandy Gunasekera authored Project 2025’s policy proposals for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in which she proposes cutting its “environmental justice and public engagement functions,” shrinking the agency, and accuses EPA staff of “quietly” strangling domestic energy production. When she served as an advisor in the Trump White House, Gunasekara pushed for the U.S. to leave the Paris Climate Accords and played a key role in rolling back federal pollution and emissions rules. 
  • Meaghan Mobbs is the director of the Center for American Safety and Security at the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), a group that is on Project 2025’s advisory board. Additionally, three of Project 2025’s contributors and two authors are affiliated with IWF.

House Republicans are tapping Project 2025—the extreme policy project queuing Trump loyalists for political appointments—to staff their next oversight hearing. Meanwhile, Project 2025 is influencing Congress to bolster its proposals to centralize power in the presidency and undermine individuals’ rights. 

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