Project 2025 is the far-right extremists’ vision for America. It’s a plan that has been formed by politically powerful allies and supporters of Donald Trump that he will implement if he wins a second presidential term in 2024.
Trump and his supporters are disappointed that he didn’t make more permanent changes to our way of life in his first term. They blame government bureaucracy, federal agencies, and civil servants for limiting him. So they’ve taken the past four years to craft this plan to be ready “on day one” of another term.
It is a way for Trump to eliminate the checks and balances our government has in place so that he can successfully implement his regressive policies without Congress or federal agencies even getting involved. It will embed their far-right extremist agenda so deeply that we can’t get out of it for generations.
Project 2025’s Four Pillars:
A “playbook” of teams and transition plans that would gut or eliminate most of the agencies Americans rely on to keep our country functioning: the Department of Education, The Department of Homeland Security, the Environmental Protection Agency, and an independent Department of Justice. Gone.
A private database of far-right loyalists who want to work for Trump. Think of it as an “extremist LinkedIn.” Their goal is to have at least 20,000 loyalists screened and ready to fill federal appointments throughout the government. Experts in specialized fields who have served the public for decades would be replaced by MAGA extremists.
A “Presidential Administration Academy” to train future appointees on how to use the government to advance their agenda.
A 900+ page “Mandate for Leadership” that creates an agenda for a new Trump administration, completely reforming how much of our government operates. It’d be impossible to share all of it with you, but here are some of the most egregious goals.
Take away Reproductive Rights
• Institute a national abortion ban.
• Reverse the FDA’s approval of abortion pills.
• Restrict doctors’ ability to provide telehealth for medical abortions.
• Restrict access to STD testing, birth control, and IVF.
End programs that Address Climate Change
• Reduce or eliminate the EPA. Kill regulations that reduce environmental harm.
• Cut funding for renewable energy while expanding Arctic oil drilling and coal mining.
• Remove the US from international climate agreements.
End Public Education
• Eliminate the Department of Education
• Divert money to private and religious schools
Mass Deportation of Immigrants
• Deport millions of immigrants and rescind protections for Dreamers.
• Suspend applications for legal immigration and reduce visas for immigrants seeking asylum.
Persecute LGBTQ+ Americans
• Remove federal protections for all LGBTQ+ people,
• Bar transgender people from military service.
• Legislate a “biblically based” definition of marriage and family.
Encourage Racial Discrimination
• End diversity equity, and inclusion offices.
• Stop federal agencies from collecting data that could be used to show racial inequality.
• End the Fair Housing Act.
Terminate Healthcare & Cut Social Security
• Repeal the Affordable Care Act, put lifetime caps on Medicare benefits, and raise the age of Social Security.
Give Unchecked Power to the President
• Pack all levels of the federal government with Trump loyalists.
• Reduce Congressional oversight by moving it to the Executive branch.
• End current norms that keep the Department of Justice and the FBI independent from the White House.
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