Paul Dans, the director of the controversial presidential transition plan known as Project 2025 , has stepped down from his role at The Heritage Foundation, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts confirmed in a statement.

Roberts made it clear that, despite Dans departure, the political goals of the right-wing manifesto remain very much alive.

When we began Project 2025 in April 2022, we set a timeline for the project to conclude its policy drafting after the two party conventions this year, and we are sticking to that timeline, Roberts said in the statement Tuesday.

Project 2025 will continue our efforts to build a personnel apparatus for policymakers of all levels federal, state, and local. I look forward to leading this team to continued success.

This tool was built for any future administration to use, he added.

Former President Donald Trump , the GOP presidential nominee, has attempted to distance himself from the roadmap as its morphed into a massive political liability. But as HuffPosts S.V. Date explained earlier this month , the document is deeply intertwined with Trump and Trumps advisers.

More than half of the documents authors are former Trump White House advisers or current campaign aides. His campaign press secretary features in a Project 2025 ad. And Trump himself praised The Heritage Foundations efforts at a dinner in April 2022.

This is a great group, Trump said at the time, and theyre going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do and what your movement will do when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America.

Sen. JD Vance, Trumps running mate, also praised and wrote the foreword for an upcoming book penned by Roberts.

(Readers may recall Roberts saying in an interview that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.)