Project 25'?
I was not familiar with Project 25 other than brief mentions in the news, so I just looked it up. Damn, it's a 922 page book:
https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
Central Personnel Agencies: Managing the Bureaucracy starts on p 69 (102 of the .pdf)
As the U.S.
Constitution makes clear, the President’s appointment, direction, and removal authorities are the central elements of his executive power. In implementing that power, the people and the President deserve the most talented and responsible workforce possible(1). In implementing that power, the people and the President deserve the most talented and responsible workforce possible. Who the President assigns to design and implement his political policy agenda
will determine whether he can carry out the responsibility given to him by the American people. The President must recognize that whoever holds a government position sets its policy. To fulfill an electoral mandate, he must therefore give personnel management his highest priority, including Cabinet-level precedence
That sounds pretty reasonable to me.
How would you come to the conclusion that such a policy would be hypocritical vis a vis calling for the removal of DEI mandates which obviously prioritize skin color, gender & sexual preferences over competence in doing the job they were hired to do?
It looks to me like even if Trump was fully on board with Project 25, contrary to what he has stated, there does not seem to be any hypocritical contrast with reforming DEI mandates.