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Democrats tried to fight back against Project 2025<\/span>. But as they\u2019ve watched many of the ideas it contained come to fruition under President Donald Trump, some of them want a blueprint for a future administration of their own.<\/p>\n

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And they want it ready to go if a Democrat retakes the White House in 2028.<\/p>\n

A group of Democrats is building a governing agenda that it has dubbed \u201cProject 2029.\u201d<\/u><\/span> Its advisers have begun drafting policies the authors hope could be followed by the Democratic candidates expected to launch a campaign for president ahead of the 2028 election.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe point of Project 2029 is not to move the party to the center or move the party to the left, it is to solve problems at the scale that is required,\u201d Chad Maisel, the Project 2029 executive director and a senior fellow on economic policy at the Center for American Progress, told NOTUS in an interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to have many, many people running for president over the next year and a half or so,\u201d Maisel said. \u201cThis is really about anchoring that debate, shaping that debate on these big issues in particular.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats have long said they don\u2019t want the upcoming elections to be focused on an anti-Trump message. Instead, they want it to be a fight with Republicans over cost of living, an affordability argument they say they are sure they can win.<\/p>\n

The authors of Project 2029 believe that enacting their policy proposals will require a mix of executive action and congressional action, but the project is focused on pairing these big ideas with an achievable plan to get them done.<\/p>\n

With perhaps<\/u><\/b>dozens of Democratic candidates<\/u><\/span> expected to launch campaigns ahead of 2028, crafting such a playbook could create risks for the party. If some of the candidates break from the policies outlined, it could show voters that the field lacks a unified message and create openings for attack \u2014 from the right and the left.<\/p>\n

Republicans\u2019 Project 2025 \u2014 written by Heritage Foundation founder Russell Vought, who is now Trump\u2019s Office of Management and Budget director \u2014 was a major sticking point of the 2024 election. Democrats campaigned heavily against it, using it as a rallying cry to bring attention to the sweep of the initiatives that conservatives wanted to accomplish if Trump returned to office.<\/p>\n

Maisel drew a sharp distinction between his group\u2019s effort and its conservative predecessor.<\/p>\n

\u201cProject 2025 was a deeply sinister effort, very much shrouded in secrecy, and it was really focused on tearing down government and advancing a pretty far-right agenda,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are not that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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One of the Project 2029 policies is a child care proposal<\/u><\/span> that would offer either free, publicly funded child care or a $1,000-a-month \u201ccare credit\u201d for families who opt out of the public option.<\/p>\n

Tara McGuinness, who founded the New Practice Lab, a research and design lab focused on family economic security, helped write the policy. She said the design is meant to move past what she described as a stale debate, which is part of what Project 2029 is meant to address in the proposals it\u2019s putting forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor too long we\u2019ve been stuck in an argument about universal child care versus parents going it alone that\u2019s really out of step with where American parents are,\u201d she said, adding that the group\u2019s internal research found parents want both lower costs and more time with their children, rather than having to choose between them.<\/p>\n

Elliot Haspel, a child and family policy expert and a senior fellow at the think tank Capita who has written extensively about child care frameworks, said that type of proposal is probably the most likely to offer many options to working parents who come from different types of households.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly recently have we seen Democrats start to talk more about the idea of, \u2018We need to support families that have stay-home parents, we need to fully support families that want to use a grandparent or want to use a neighbor to provide child care,\u2019\u201d Haspel said. \u201cThis isn\u2019t just about these sort of licensed formal programs.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is just one of many proposals to come, Maisel said.<\/p>\n

The group plans to roll out dozens of proposals over the next year, on issues including housing, health care, energy costs, tackling corruption, border policy \u201cand everything in between,\u201d meant to give the next Democratic president a ready-made agenda and to shape the party\u2019s 2028 primary debate well before it begins in earnest, Maisel said.<\/p>\n

Project 2029 has already previewed several other proposals, including plans to break up regional utility monopolies, rein in what it calls the \u201cannoyance economy\u201d<\/u><\/span> of hidden fees and customer-service hassles, and restrict harmful social media and artificial intelligence features aimed at children.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are a mom dealing with child care, or you are a renter dealing with skyrocketing rent, you don\u2019t care if the solution that is being offered is an anti-monopolist response or an abundance-oriented response, a centrist response, or a far-left response,\u201d Maisel said. \u201cYou just want to hear solutions that solve the problem you\u2019re facing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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