Heritage Foundation calls cops on author who found 'Project 2025' duffel bag: report

An author who stumbled upon a discarded duffel bag containing material for the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 ended up with the police showing up at his door, The Washington Post reported on Friday.

Malcolm Harris, a Marxist journalist and author, says that he found the bag on August 9. “People in Capitol Hill just leave a bunch of really nice stuff out all the time,” he said of the find. “This is, in fact, not the nicest duffel bag I have found outside for free on Capitol Hill.”

Ultimately, that bag didn't contain a lot of crucial information, but some of the documents inside, which detailed an internship program, could have potentially been embarrassing to the Heritage Foundation, which according to recent reports has been plagued with infighting over the controversial transition plan.

After he posted about finding it online, he got a flurry of people asking to buy it off him — and then a staffer at the Heritage Foundation caught wind, and reported it as a theft to the D.C. Metropolitan Police, who paid Harris a visit.

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As for what actually happened in his interaction with law enforcement, Harris told The Post, “I don’t talk to the police, so we didn’t have a very long conversation.”

Project 2025 is a plan crafted by the Heritage Foundation to reshape the federal government for the next Republican president, crafted with the assistance of several Trump administration alumni, that would consolidate executive power, replacing the civil service with an army of partisan loyalists, and gut programs across the federal government.

Recent reports have indicated that Project 2025 has become a huge liability for Republicans as voters have become more aware of the details.