Project 2025
During the campaign, Donald T**** disavowed any knowledge of the Project 2025 document, claiming he’d never read it, and had no idea what was in it. Now that he’s the President-elect, he has changed his tune, admitting that it has been the MAGA’s playbook all along.
So what is Project 2025? Titled “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” It is the Heritage Foundation’s 900-page blueprint for an ultra-Right takeover of the US government. Project 2025 also suggests legislation to make changes that are presently outside of executive control.
Project 2025 has been talked about and discussed in bits and pieces. But in order to get an idea of the magnitude of what T**** and the MAGAs have in store, its really should be taken as a whole. To do this, I asked an AI program to give me a 1000-word synopsis. Here it is.
KEY OBJECTIVE
Project 2025 is a Heritage Foundation initiative to create a governing agenda for Donald T****. The leaders of the project state that its goal is to deconstruct the administrative state. The project also sets as its goals to restore the family as the centerpiece of American life, defend the nation’s borders and secure “God-given” individual rights.
UNITARY EXECUTIVE
A critical aspect of Project 2025 is the concept of the “unitary executive.” This refers to the placing the entire federal bureaucracy, including all Cabinet level positions and traditionally independent agencies, under direct presidential control.
CIVIL SERVICE
The Project proposes the elimination of civil service protections for thousands of government employees who could then be replaced by political appointees who are beholden to the executive. It also proposes dismantling or significantly overhauling several federal agencies,
LABOR AND EMPLOYMEN
Staffing requirements for certain government workers would be eliminated. The project proposes eliminating card check elections while accelerating the process to decertify unions. It would reduce overtime protections for 4.3 million workers. It supports banning public sector unions entirely and that Congress authorize state and local government waivers from federal labor laws like the National Labor Relations Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act.
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT
The project proposes cutting federal funding for renewable energy and increasing fossil fuel production. It would downsizing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration due to its efforts to battle climate change. It would also slash federal funding for renewable energy research and investment, close the EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, and repeal the Inflation Reduction Act.
SOCIAL ISSUES
The Project would declare that “men and women are biological realities and married men and women are the ideal, natural family.” It targets for elimination all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the federal government, labor and, employment. It proposes outlawing same-sex marriage and restricting the rights of LBGTQ+ citizens across the board.
HEALTH CARE
The Project calls for dismantling or outright eliminating the Affordable Care Act. It would also restructuring Medicare and Medicaid. and advocates, among other things, repealing the $35 per month cap on insulin costs for seniors on Medicare, ending Medicare’s $2,000 per year cap on out-of-pocket drug costs and the federal government’s ability to negotiate drug prices.
EDUCATION
The Project recommends dismantling the Department of Education to facilitate school choice and increase local parental control over schools. It would eliminate the Head Start program. It would also eliminate the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program enacted and end the Biden-Harris SAVE initiative.
IMMIGREATION
The Project proposes implementing mass deportations and raids, ending birthright citizenship and separating immigrant families. It advocates dismantling the asylum system and recommends eliminating the Department of Homeland Security. It also recommends eliminating the prohibition against apprehending migrants in sensitive places like schools, playgrounds and churches. And it would authorize active-duty military personnel and the National Guard to help with arrest operations on the border. And it would continue to build a wall on the Mexican border.
ECONOMY
Project 2025 proposes massive cuts to both corporate and personal income taxes. The authors suggest the next administration should consider abolishing the Federal Reserve and returning to gold-backed currency.
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
The abortion drug Mifepristone would be removed from the market entirely or limited to the first seven weeks of pregnancy.
The Project recommends enforcement of the Comstock Act of 1873, which it claims would ban the mailing of abortion drugs. It would also penalize states that require abortion coverage in private insurance and disqualify any provider of elective abortions from Medicaid. The plan recommends that the next president replace the Reproductive Healthcare Access Task Force with a “pro-life task force.”
GENDER IDENTITY
The report calls on the Department of Health and Human Services to declare that “men and women are biological realities and married men and women are the ideal, natural family.” It would eliminate terms like “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” from all federal rules, regulations, contracts, grants, and legislation, thus effectively stripping LGBTQ+ individuals of legal protections against discrimination and violence.
CONCLUSION
Project 2025 represents a comprehensive and ambitious attempt following the election of Donald T**** to reshape the federal government along ultra-conservative lines, and offers a roadmap for effective, one party conservative governance. Emphasizing swift action through executive authority, it also aims to impose conservative Christian cultural and social values on the entire nation. Relying heavily on the concept of the “unitary executive,” it would allow Donald T**** to govern ostensibly by fiat.
And that’s Project 2025 in a nutshell, the MAGA’s plan to usurp governmental power and rule in their own image. The implications for the democracy are dire and chilling. Short of taking back the reins of government from T*** and the MAGA movement at the ballot box which could take years, there is only one way to fight against their impending ultra-Right coup. Only one path forward.
RESIST.
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