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Former HHS official Roger Severino helped develop a plan to recast the department as a conservative focus on marriage and family

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Roger Severino is the lead architect of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025Mandate for Leadership” The document is a blueprint by the foundation and allied groups intended to guide the next presidential administration.

It has emerged as a political flash point, as Democrats portray the 900-page document as promoting an authoritarian power grab by extreme conservatives.

President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party’s new presumptive presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris , have urged voters to read the document themselves.

Conservatives say Democrats are lying about what Project 2025 's proposals would do and are incorrectly attributing the ideas to Trump for political gain.

Project 2025 risks GOP voter support over its anti-abortion stance, according to some political analysts.