Ali Velshi: Trump taps figures behind Project 2025 for key White House roles

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : It's earned Vought the backing of Trump and some of his staunchest allies.
52% : He was also the acting director of ICE who helped carry out the family separation policy during the previous Trump administration.
48% : But now that Trump has been elected, he is freely appointing the architects of Project 2025, figures who already had deep ties to the president-elect, to key Cabinet-level posts.
35% : One of the first people Trump appointed to his new administration was also a Project 2025 contributor: Tom Homan, who will serve as the "border czar" expected to lead the mass deportation effort.
29% : Besides Vought and Miller, a handful of other key Project 2025 figures have been chosen by Trump to join his administration.
10% : In July, Trump posted on TruthSocial: That politically expedient lie was repeated by Trump campaign officials so that the deeply unpopular Project 2025 wouldn't derail his presidential campaign.

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