Few of the attendees at the Republican convention in Milwaukee
have any idea what Project 2025 is, but the link below provides more
information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
The entire document is roughly 900 pages, but the paragraphs
below provide at least a basic summary:
The 2025
Presidential Transition Project, also known as Project 2025, is
an initiative organized by the Heritage Foundation with the aim of promoting a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals to reshape the United States federal government and
consolidate executive power should Donald Trump win the 2024 presidential election. The Project
asserts that the entire executive branch is under the direct control of the president
under Article II of the U.S. Constitution and unitary executive theory
It
proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of federal civil service workers
as political appointees in order to
replace them with loyalists more willing to enable Trump's policies. In
doing so, proponents argue that the change would dismantle what they view as a
vast, unaccountable, and mostly liberal government bureaucracy The Project seeks to infuse the
government and society with Christian values Critics have
characterized Project 2025 as an authoritarian, Christian nationalist plan to steer the U.S. toward autocracy. Many legal
experts have said it would undermine the rule of law, the separation of powers, the separation of
church and state, and civil liberties.
Although
Trump claims to know nothing about it, his name is mentioned over 100 times,
and it was written by at least 140 people who worked in the Trump
administration and had a hand in Project 2025, including more than half of the
people listed as authors, editors and contributors.
Although
it was written by the Heritage Foundation, it meshes well with Agenda 47, which
was produced by Trump’s campaign – and even fewer people have ever heard of it.
Many
of its ideas are contained below:
Former President Donald
Trump clinched the
GOP nomination on Monday—and a years-old platform dating back to the Republican
primaries lays out a range of priorities if he’s elected, including stricter
rules for schools, more hardline immigration policies, scrapping climate
regulations and creating entirely new “freedom cities.”
Trump’s “Agenda47” consists of a
series of proposals his campaign issued on its website during the primary election season, from December
2022 to December 2023, many of which may require congressional action but some
of which could be enacted through executive orders—separate from the Project 2025 proposals developed by
third-party organizations.
Education: Trump’s proposals for K-12 schools include having parents elect school
principals, cutting federal funding to any school teaching “critical race
theory,” ending teacher tenure, creating a new credentialing body to
only certify teachers “who embrace patriotic values,” encouraging prayer in
schools, making it easier to kick “out-of-control troublemakers” out of school,
supporting school districts that allow teachers to carry concealed firearms and
pushing “school choice” policies.
Universities: Trump has proposed getting rid of existing
accreditors for colleges and universities and creating new ones who impose
his party’s values on institutions, along with levying significant fines on
colleges and universities that he believes “discriminate” against students—with
a plan to use those fines to create a free online “American Academy”
that “cover[s] the full spectrum of human knowledge and skills.”
Climate Change: The U.S. would again leave
the Paris Climate Accord, and the ex-president has proposed getting rid of President Joe
Biden’s policies restricting emissions and
targeting 67% of new vehicles to be electric by 2032 and massively scaling up
oil and gas production.
Justice Department: Trump has pledged to appoint 100 U.S. attorneys
who would be aligned with his policies and investigate some left-leaning local
district attorneys, also
pledging to establish a DOJ task force on “protecting the right to
self-defense” and fight purported anti-conservative bias at law schools and law
firms.
Crime: Trump has vowed to invest in hiring and
retaining police officers (and increase their protections from legal
liability), push policies like “stop and frisk,” direct the DOJ “to dismantle
every gang, street crew, and drug network in America,” deploy federal troops
including the National Guard “to restore law and order” when local officers
“refuse to act” and impose the death penalty for drug dealers, drug cartels and
human traffickers.
Immigration: Trump plans to prohibit undocumented immigrants from
receiving any benefits, end birthright citizenship for the children of
undocumented immigrants, reinstitute a “travel ban” from certain countries, pause refugee admissions, mandate “extreme vetting of
foreign nationals,” block federal grants to sanctuary cities, end the
“catch-and-release” practice of releasing migrants while they await immigration
hearings, close the southern border to asylum seekers and suspend visa programs
including the visa lottery and family visas.
Economy: Trump proposes cutting
taxes and slashing federal regulations, also proposing
baseline tariffs on
foreign goods in hopes of spurring American manufacturing, which will go up for
countries who have “unfair trade practices.”
Healthcare: Trump
has proposed requiring
federal agencies to buy medicines and medical devices manufactured in the U.S.
and barring federal agencies from other countries from purchasing “essential”
drugs; he also has plans for
an executive order saying the government will only pay pharmaceutical companies
the “best price they offer to foreign nations.”
Foreign Policy and Defense: Trump wants European
allies to pay back the U.S. for depleting its military stockpiles sending
weapons to Ukraine; he has also taken a hardline stance on China, calling
for new restrictions on Chinese-owned infrastructure in the U.S., and wants to
build a missile defense shield.
Social Security: In a shift from some
pre-Trump GOP politicians’ views, Trump has said there
should be no cuts to Social Security or Medicare “under any circumstances.”
Homelessness: Trump plans to
work with states to ban “public camping” by homeless people and instead give
them the choice of receiving treatment or being arrested, and calls for
creating large “tent cities” where homeless people would be relocated, which
would have doctors and social workers on site, along with expanding mental
institutions.
Transgender Rights: Trump
takes a hard stance against transgender rights, calling for
any healthcare provider providing gender-affirming care for youth to be
terminated from Medicare and Medicaid, stripping federal funding from any
school where an official or teacher suggests a child could be “trapped in the
wrong body,” and encouraging Congress to pass legislation saying “the only
genders recognized by the U.S. government are male and female—and they are
Big Tech: In line with conservatives’ claims that
social media platforms are biased against them, Trump said he’ll
pass an executive order barring any federal department from working with other
entities to “censor” Americans and prohibit federal money being used to
combat misinformation, also announcing steps like altering Section 230 to
open up social media platforms to more legal liability.
Both Project 2025 and Agenda
would have the effect of virtually ending the democracy that we have had for
248 years.
The media has spent far too
much time in focusing on Joe Biden’s missteps, and not enough on the fact that
Trump is a convicted felon, who is the worst president in our nation’s history.
The November election has
become more precarious for a couple of reasons:
1)
The Democrats still
cannot fully agree about who their nominee should be
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