The View's Alyssa Farah Griffin slams think tank behind contentious Project 2025 as 'nationalist fever dream'

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: 'The View' host Alyssa Farah Griffin sought to distance conservatives from Project 2025 while voicing her concerns with The Heritage Foundation proposal. Griffin was joined by her co-hosts Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin at the Hot Topics table while discussing the subject and calling out presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump for claiming to know nothing about it.

Behar and Hostin joked that since the plan in question was 900 pages long and had "no pictures," Trump may not have read it in its entirety, but the latter stated that the former President was well aware of the contents, as was suggested by him during a 2022 speech at the Foundation dinner. "CNN found nearly 240 people with ties to both Project 2025 and to Trump- many of them worked in his administration," she shared.

Alyssa Farah Griffin says Project 2025 'nationalist fever dream'

Alyssa Farah Griffin said during the discussion, "I think one of the things that is so frustrating about this is it's not a conservative policy document at all. And it just shows... The Heritage Foundation was once the premier policy institute for conservative policy. Now it has become this nationalist, populist fever dream."

"Shame on Kevin Roberts (President of The Heritage Foundation), that's just ridiculous for destroying this institution. But I've actually been talking about this for about four years and now it's getting a ton of media coverage. I just saw a stat that google searches for Project 2025 have outpaced the NFL and Taylor Swift because people are tuning in," she continued.

"The thing I've warned about in this is that there's an executive order Trump already had in place, that basically would eliminate civil service. It would change all civil service ... subject matter experts into political appointees- meaning he gets to choose them, they're loyal to him and he can fire them at will," she said. 

"So when you're thinking about things like natural disasters, terrorist attacks, pandemics, you're not going to have the most qualified people, you're not going to have non-partisan people who just want to serve the public. You're going to have the loyalists he put there," warned Griffin. "That to me is the scariest part. It will fundamentally change the government that I worked for."

Sara Haines says Project 2025 seeks to 'eliminate' reproductive freedom

"The Heritage Foundation created a mandate for leadership in 2015," Haines told her co-hosts. "And two years into the Trump Presidency, they had accomplished 64 per cent of what was laid out in that mandate," Haines added. 

She highlighted one of the most egregious inclusions in the plan as criminalizing "anyone who gets an abortion," as well as eliminating the contraceptive pill mifepristone.

"Since they overturned Roe v Wade, there has been a lot of states ... that have all bans across the board, so people were depending on that to family plan. That's one of the things they want to eliminate, so when you're are talking about miscarriages and all these other things that we're seeing in these trigger laws, it can be criminalized," Haines added.