NEW YORK (NEWSnet/AP) — The director of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, an independent, detailed blueprint for a conservative presidential term, has stepped down, the think tank confirmed Tuesday.

Paul Dans’ exit comes after the project “completed exactly what it set out to do: bringing together over 110 leading conservative organizations to create a unified conservative vision, motivated to devolve power from the unelected administrative state, and returning it to the people,” Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said in a statement.

The news comes after Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has increasingly disavowed Project 2025.

His campaign had warned outside groups, and Heritage in particular, that they did not speak for the former president, even though the Project 2025 team was staffed with his former White House aides and advisers.

During the past several months, Democrats were among those who had made Project 2025 an election-season talking point.

The reason is that the nearly 1,000-page handbook proposes sweeping changes in the federal government’s policies and procedures that could affect multiple agencies, programs and those who are recipients of those services.

Project 2025’s website will remain online and the group will continue vetting resumes for its database of potential government officials interested in following the group’s vision for government, the Heritage Foundation said Tuesday.

The group said Roberts will now run Project 2025 operations.

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