As Donald Trump paused briefly to fix his tie in a floor-length mirror at the Palm Beach Convention Center, a thousand miles away inside the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., staff rushed to quickly put out a prepared statement congratulating the president-elect.

The director of Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for how former President Donald Trump ought to govern if returned to the White House, did not resign from his post this summer as the Heritage Foundation previously announced. Paul Dans was fired, RealClearPolitics is first to report.