Did any of the 10,000 vetted names get federal jobs, and did agencies confirm?
Research question: Were any of the roughly 10,000 vetted names from the Project 2025 candidate pool placed into a federal job, and has any agency confirmed hiring them?
The records show that the transition team reached out to potential hires whose names came from the Project 2025 database of more than 10,000 vetted candidates 121315. Transition official Howard Lutnick, however, said the team had not touched the database 16. The records do not link any named federal appointee to that database, so they do not establish that any of those names was placed. Recent hires, such as Paul Winfree and Daniel Heil at the Fed 1 and Dennis Kirk at Interior's inspector general's office 2, are Project 2025 contributors, but no fact says they came from the candidate pool. The Federal Reserve declined to comment on its hires 7, and no agency is shown confirming that it hired anyone from the database. The newest fact is from August 10, 2026 25, about two months before today.
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"The two are "working as temporary contractors to support Warsh in his policy analysis and planning on special projects in the areas in which they have worked with him over time," the person said."Fed Chair Warsh makes first hires at central bank, including 'Project 2025' author
"Kirk had been installed as a political appointee"Project 2025 contributor nominated for government watchdog position - Government Executive
"Vought — Trump’s pick to direct the Office of Management and Budget in his first and second terms — wrote a chapter outlini"The key Project 2025 authors now staffing the Trump administration
"The two researchers are Paul Winfree, the author of the chapter on the Federal Reserve in the conservative policy blueprint "Project 2025," and Daniel Heil, a fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution think tank, where Warsh held a position before joining the Fed."Fed Chair Warsh makes first hires at central bank, including 'Project 2025' author
"Kirk co-wrote a chapter in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 conservative presidential transitional initiative about managing the civil service."Project 2025 contributor nominated for government watchdog position - Government Executive
"Carr, Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Communications Commission, wrote the Project 2025 chapter outlining a series of reforms to the FCC"The key Project 2025 authors now staffing the Trump administration
"The Federal Reserve declined to comment for this story."Fed Chair Warsh makes first hires at central bank, including 'Project 2025' author
"Candeub, the newly anointed general counsel for the FCC, wrote a Project 2025 chapter scrutinizing the Federal Trade Commission"The key Project 2025 authors now staffing the Trump administration
"Border czar Tom Homan gets a credit in the book, as do Brian J. Cavanaugh, the associate director for homeland security at OMB, and James Baehr, general counsel for the Department of Veteran Affairs."The key Project 2025 authors now staffing the Trump administration
"Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins and OMB senior adviser Stephen Billy are also among the Project 2025 alums who now staff the Trump administration"The key Project 2025 authors now staffing the Trump administration
"Donald Trump's transition team has been using the Project 2025 database to begin filling the ranks of its political appointees for the next administration, according to a new report Friday."'We told you so': Trump team scouring Project 2025 database for ...
"That person said officials overseeing plans for some departments and agencies have been reaching out to potential hires who were identified in the Project 2025 database, which officials have described as a conservative LinkedIn to help staff the next Republican administration."'We told you so': Trump team scouring Project 2025 database for ...
"officials overseeing plans for some departments and agencies have started to reach out to potential hires whose names and contact information were part of that database."trump team turns project 2025 disavowing effort campaign rcna180689
""There's a lot of positions to fill and we continue to send names over, including ones from the database as they are conservative, qualified and vetted," the person, who worked on Project 2025, said."trump team turns project 2025 disavowing effort campaign rcna180689
"the group built a database of more than 10,000 candidates vetted for their MAGA credentials who would build out the administration in the event Trump won"trump team turns project 2025 disavowing effort campaign rcna180689
""The transition team of Donald Trump has not touched it, has not gone near it," he said."trump team turns project 2025 disavowing effort campaign rcna180689
"the transition rejected a push for former Trump administration official Roger Severino, who wrote Project 2025's chapter on the Department of Health and Human Services, to serve as deputy secretary of the agency"trump team turns project 2025 disavowing effort campaign rcna180689
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