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Work has slowed and staff cuts have deepened, while the project has been de-emphasized in government documents and presentations in recent months.

All told, the changes are moving UChicago to what Ando sees as a place where graduate education is de-emphasized, the undergraduate college is expanding and more students are taught by cheaper, non-tenure-track faculty.

To carry out her vision, McMahon has brought on at least 20 political appointees from ultraconservative think tanks and advocacy groups eager to de-emphasize public schools, which have educated students for roughly 200 years.

This focus on tax cuts appears intended to de-emphasize the billions in spending approved under the Big Beautiful Bill — spending that was Vance’s primary focus earlier this year.

Mr. Trump and his allies, then and now, have tried to tie Mr. Biden to progressive local officials who, for a time, de-emphasized prosecution of some nonviolent crimes to reduce incarceration rates.