Rep. Jared Huffman discusses the coming Trump presidency: ‘I just can’t peddle false hope in the face of what I know is coming’

Rep. Jared Huffman last month was considering a Kamala Harris administration or a chance to chair the House Natural Resource Committee on which he has long served. Now he faces a much different two years.

Few in the North Bay have spent more time over the last year pondering the possible impacts and direction of a second administration by President-elect Donald Trump than Rep. Jared Huffman, who helmed Democrats’ task force on Project 2025, the presidential transition plan critics have labeled extremist.

After Trump’s sweeping electoral victory Nov. 5, in which Republicans captured not just the White House but also the Senate and, it seems increasingly likely, the House, Huffman is now bracing to see those plans put into action.

“You really have to take seriously everything he and his inner circle say they are going to do,” he told The Press Democrat. “I just can’t peddle false hope in the face of what I know is coming.”

During his reelection campaign, Trump denied that Project 2025, which was authored by the conservative Heritage Foundation, represents his plans for office. But the document’s authors include many former officials from his administration, as Huffman has spent much of the campaign cycle arguing, and many of its positions align with those Trump has expressed on the campaign trail, such as mass deportations and harsh immigration enforcement.

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By:  Andrew Graham
Source: Press Democrat

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