House Democrats are planning a resistance playbook for Trump’s return

Democrats are already preparing to push back against Donald Trump’s use of executive power if he wins control of the Oval Office, with the hope of crafting the sort of pre-written resistance playbook they lacked when he first won office in 2016.

Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., is spearheading a task force to oppose Project 2025, the plan crafted by conservative groups to replace much of the current federal bureaucracy with reliably right-wing personnel and pursue dramatic policy changes through administrative fiat.

“Project 2025 is the clearest signal we could possibly ask for in terms of what Trump would do in a second term, and it is alarming in every way,” Huffman told Semafor. “We’ve got work to do to make sure people know about it and make sure they take it seriously.”