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Project 2025 Presidential Personnel Database
Private personnel recruitment database announced as part of Project 2025
Organization details
- Launched
- 2023
- Sponsor
- Heritage-led Project 2025 coalition
- Purpose
- Recruitment and vetting of prospective political appointees
- Publicly named adviser
- John McEntee
The Project 2025 Presidential Personnel Database was an application and recruiting system developed as part of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project.
Origin and scope
Heritage announced the Presidential Personnel Database in 2023 as the second pillar of Project 2025. The project sought to collect résumés and recommendations from prospective appointees for possible use during a future conservative presidential transition.
Management and institutional distinction
The Heritage announcement named John McEntee as a senior adviser supporting the personnel initiative and Paul Dans as Project 2025 director. The private database was not the federal Office of Presidential Personnel, and participation did not itself confer a government job.
References
Research compiled through November 12, 2026. Sources and historical roles are dated where known.