Paul Dans Explained

Paul Dans
Party:Republican
Education:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BA, MCP)
University of Virginia (JD)

Paul Dans led Project 2025,[1] [2] the Heritage Foundation's 2025 presidential transition project intended to reshape the U.S. federal government to reflect right-wing policies, until his resignation on July 30, 2024.[3]

Early life and education

Dans' father was a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and his mother had worked for National Institutes of Health and then became a schoolteacher. Dans has three siblings.[4] [5] [6]

Dans earned his bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[7]

Dans worked at architecture and planning firms before attending law school at the University of Virginia, where he was president of the law school's Federalist Society chapter. He later practiced law in New York City.[8]

Career

Dans worked at law firms and ran a solo private practice for a number of years after law school.[9]

Trump administration

Dans worked as a senior advisor in the Office of Community Planning and Development at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.[10]

Dans then served in the Trump administration as chief of staff at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management where he managed the federal agency in charge of human resources policy for the more than two million federal workers. He also served as the Office of Personnel Management's White House liaison and worked with the White House Office of Presidential Personnel to staff the approximately 4,000 presidential appointees across the federal government. Dans was seen as a Trump loyalist and worked closely with John McEntee to remove longtime public servants from government who did not demonstrate sufficient loyalty to Trump. Dans was hired without the knowledge of Dale Cabaniss, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, who resigned abruptly in 2020.[11] [12]

Project 2025

Dans helped to launch the project in April of 2022 and led it until August of 2024.[13] Dans described Project 2025 was "systematically preparing to march into office and bring a new army [of] aligned, trained, and essentially weaponized conservatives ready to do battle against the deep state".[14]

In 2023, Dans stated that Project 2025 had a "great" relationship with former President Donald Trump.[15]

On July 30, 2024, Dans announed he was stepping down from his position as director of Project 2025 the following month.[16]

Future

Donald Devine (and Paul Dans) expect him to play a role if there is another Trump administration.[17]

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: September 19, 2023 . Inside the Next Republican Revolution . .
  2. Web site: Berman . Russell . 2023-09-24 . The Open Plot to Dismantle the Federal Government . 2024-07-16 . The Atlantic . en.
  3. Web site: Head of Project 2025 Steps Down Following Trump Criticism. July 30, 2024. July 30, 2024. The Wall Street Journal. Andrew. Restuccia.
  4. Web site: The Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans . Alec MacGillis . ProPublica . 1 August 2024 . 1 August 2024 . Paul Dans was raised, in the 1970s and ’80s, in a family that embodied liberal idealism. Peter Dans was a professor of medicine who had enlisted in the Public Health Service; started an STD clinic and a migrant health clinic while on faculty at the University of Colorado; and served in the office of Sen. Gaylord Nelson, the Wisconsin Democrat who founded Earth Day. Paul’s mom, Colette Lizotte, was a French teacher who had previously worked as a chemist at the National Institutes of Health. .
  5. Web site: Peter Emanuel Dans, MD: a conversation with the editor . PubMed Central (PMC) . January 2002 . 1 August 2024 .
  6. Web site: Colette Dans, 65, French teacher in Baltimore County public schools . Baltimore Sun . 30 September 2021 . 1 August 2024 .
  7. Web site: Paul Dans Named National Capital Planning Commission Chairman . 2024-07-16 . www.ncpc.gov . en.
  8. Web site: Paul Dans at Republican National Lawyers Association . 2024-07-16 . Republican National Lawyers Association . en.
  9. Web site: MacGillis . Alec . 2024-08-01 . The Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans . 2024-08-14 . ProPublica . en.
  10. Web site: Lippman . Daniel . March 17, 2020 . OPM chief Dale Cabaniss abruptly resigns . Politico.com.
  11. News: Rein . Lisa . 2020-03-18 . Federal personnel chief quits abruptly amid coronavirus planning for the workforce of 2.1 million . 2024-07-16 . Washington Post . en-US . 0190-8286.
  12. Web site: Swan . Jonathan . June 14, 2020 . Scoop: Trump's loyalty cop clashes with agency heads .
  13. News: McGraw . Meridith . Lippman . Daniel . July 30, 2024 . Head of Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 steps down . Politico.
  14. Gira Grant . Melissa . January 4, 2024 . The Right Is Winning Its War on Schools . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240113215004/https://newrepublic.com/article/177563/right-winning-war-schools . January 13, 2024 . January 13, 2024 . . systematically preparing to march into office and bring a new army, [of] aligned, trained, and essentially weaponized conservatives ready to do battle against the deep state..
  15. News: Walker . Josephine . 2024-07-11 . Project 2025 Director in Resurfaced Interview: Trump's 'Very Bought In' . 2024-07-16 . The Daily Beast . en.
  16. News: Restuccia . Andrew . Head of Project 2025 Steps Down Following Trump Criticism . The Wall Street Journal . July 30, 2024.
  17. Web site: MacGillis . Alec . 2024-08-01 . The Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans . 2024-08-14 . ProPublica . en . Will Dans himself be among that number? As Devine sees it, Dans’ current defenestration is political, and temporary. 'Paul is too bright and intelligent not to,' he said. 'They’ll pick him up somewhere.'...Dans still sees himself as a field general for a new class of Trump bureaucrats, one that will come to power if Trump wins, whether the effort is called Project 2025 or not..

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