Thursday, July 04, 2024

Project 2025: An Explainer

The blueprint, called Project 2025 and produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation, is one of several think-tank proposals for Trump's platform. Over more than 900 pages, it calls for sacking thousands of civil servants, expanding the power of the president, dismantling the Department of Education and other federal agencies, and sweeping tax cuts.

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Project 2025 proposes that the entire federal bureaucracy, including independent agencies such as the Department of Justice, be placed under direct presidential control " a controversial idea known as "unitary executive theory".

Already checked off the list due to immunity decision.

#1 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-03 09:35 PM

The proposals also call for eliminating job protections for thousands of government-employees, who could then be replaced by political appointees.
The document labels the FBI a "bloated, arrogant, increasingly lawless organization" and calls for drastic overhauls of this and other federal agencies, including eliminating the Department of Education.

www2.ed.gov

The Dept of Education assures states have minimal education standards, enforce Title IX-you know the thing jeff claims is under attack by the trans, implements student grants,
protects against discrimination.

You know, stuff Americans want

#2 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-03 09:38 PM

The document proposes slashing federal money for research and investment in renewable energy, and calls for the next president to "stop the war on oil and natural gas".
Carbon-reduction goals would be replaced by efforts to increase energy production and security.

YAY EXTINCTION!!!!

#3 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-03 09:39 PM

"...proposes withdrawing the abortion pill mifepristone from the market.

and you KNOW they will push for a nationwide abortion ban

#4 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-03 09:40 PM

Under the proposals, pornography would be banned, and tech and telecoms companies that facilitate access to such content would be shut down.
The document calls for school choice and parental control over schools, and takes aim at what it calls "woke propaganda".
It proposes to eliminate a long list of terms from all laws and federal regulations, including "sexual orientation", "diversity, equity, and inclusion", "gender equality", "abortion" and "reproductive rights".

They're coming for your pornhub!!!!

No more reproductive rights.

Republicans are scum

#5 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-03 09:41 PM

en.wikipedia.org

Donald J. Trump: ""If I happen to be president and I see somebody who's doing well and beating me very badly, I say go down and indict them."

#6 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-03 09:43 PM

tech and telecoms companies that facilitate access to such content would be shut down.

Not if Elon is on SCOTUS.

#7 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-07-03 09:47 PM

The project seeks to revive a Trump administration effort to include a question of whether an individual counted in the decennial U.S. census is an American citizen.

In his 2024 campaign speeches, Donald Trump has echoed various aspects of Project 2025, including the promotion of Christian nationalism.[75]

Project 2025 would reverse a 2009 finding from the EPA that determined that carbon dioxide emissions are harmful to human health, preventing the federal government from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.

It further recommends incentives for members of the general public "to identify scientific flaws and research misconduct" and to legally challenge research in climatology

TH: Bubba will be taking Climate PHds to court to challenge the science and since Chevron is now dead, conservative judges will decide bubba is right all along.

#8 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-03 09:47 PM

It is critical of the Federal Reserve, which it proposes to abolish,[81] and blames it for the business cycle, and advocates for free banking and/or commodity-backed currency such as a gold standard. It recommends eliminating full employment from the central banking system's mandate, instead focusing solely on targeting inflation.[62][82]

It aims to reduce the corporate tax rate to 18%

After these reforms are implemented, it recommends that a three-fifths vote threshold be required to pass legislation that would increase individual or corporate income tax, to "create a wall of protection" for these tax reforms,[62] despite a general consensus that the enforcement of legislation which binds a subsequent Congress is unconstitutional.

Project 2025 suggests the abolition of Economic Development Administration (EDA) at the Department of Commerce, and, if that proved impossible, the EDA should instead assist "rural communities destroyed by the Biden administration's attack on domestic energy production."[59] By 2023, the Biden administration had already granted more permits for oil and gas drilling than did its predecessor.[66]

#9 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-03 09:49 PM

It declares that "God ordained the Sabbath as a day of rest" and recommends legislation requiring Americans to be paid more for working on that day.[59]

It aims to institute work requirements for people reliant on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Food Stamps)

#10 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-03 09:50 PM

Federal enforcement of civil rights in schools would be significantly curtailed, and such responsibilities would be transferred to the Department of Justice, but the DOJ would only be able to enforce the law through litigation.

The federal government would no longer investigate schools for signs of disparate impacts of disciplinary measures on the basis of race or ethnicity. Project 2025 explicitly rejects the "pursuit of racial parity in school discipline indicators"such as detentions, suspensions, and expulsions"over student safety

A federal fund worth $18 billion for low-income students (Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965) would be allowed to expire,[16] and those responsibilities would be transferred to the states.[17] Public funds for education would be available as school vouchers with no strings attached, even for parents sending their children to private or religious schools.[16] Free school meals and the Head Start program would be eliminated.[17] For the backers of this project, education is a private rather than a public good.[16] Project 2025 also criticizes any programs to forgive student loans.[89]

#11 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-03 09:51 PM

Project 2025 encourages the future president to ensure that "any research conducted with taxpayer dollars serves the national interest in a concrete way in line with conservative principles."[59][62]:686 For example, research in climatology should receive considerably less funding in line with Project 2025's views on climate change

So, science grants would be geared to funding anti-science studies.

#12 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-03 09:52 PM

It calls for installing senior State Department leaders in "acting" roles that do not require Senate confirmation

If Project 2025 were to be implemented, Congressional approval would not be required for the sale of military equipment and ammunition to a foreign nation,[3] unless "unanimous congressional support is guaranteed.

In November 2023, The Washington Post reported that deploying the military for domestic law enforcement under the Insurrection Act of 1807 would be an "immediate priority" upon a second Trump inauguration in 2025.

#13 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-03 09:55 PM

Project 2025 is aligned with Trump's plans to fire more government employees than allocated to the president using Schedule F, a job classification established by Trump in an executive order in October 2020. Although the classification was rescinded by Biden in January 2021, Trump has previously stated that he would restore it. The Heritage Foundation plans on having 20,000 personnel in its database by the end of 2024.[37] Russell Vought stated that the project's goal of removing federal workers would be "a wrecking ball for the administrative state."[102]

By June 2024, the American Accountability Foundation, a conservative opposition research organization led by former aide to Republican senators Tom Jones, was researching the backgrounds of certain key high-ranking federal civil servants. Called Project Sovereignty 2025, the undertaking received a $100,000 grant from Heritage with the objective of posting names on a website of 100 individuals who might oppose the Trump agenda. Announcing the grant in May 2024, Heritage wrote the purpose of the research was "to alert Congress, a conservative administration, and the American people to the presence of anti-American bad actors burrowed into the administrative state and ensure appropriate action is taken." Some found Project Sovereignty 2025 reminiscent of McCarthyism, in which many Americans were persecuted and blacklisted as alleged communists.

#14 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-03 09:56 PM

According to Project 2025, the federal government should remove Medicare's ability to negotiate drug prices

Federal healthcare providers should deny gender-affirming care to transgender people and eliminate insurance coverage of the morning-after-pill Ella required by the Affordable Care Act of 2010

Other proposals include limiting the state use of provider taxes,[124] eliminating preexisting federal beneficiary protections and requirements,[124] increase eligibility determinations and asset test determinations to make it harder to enroll in, apply for and renew Medicaid,[124] provide an option to turn Medicaid into a voucher program,[124] and eliminate federal oversight of state medicaid programs.[124]

Miller told Project 2025 participant Charlie Kirk in November 2023 that the operation would rival the scale and complexity of "building the Panama Canal." He said the operation would include deputizing the National Guard in red states as immigration enforcement officers, under Trump's command. These forces would then be deployed into blue states.[126]

Project 2025 encourages the President to withhold federal disaster relief funds granted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) should state or local governments refuse to abide by federal immigration laws, by, for example, not sharing information with law enforcement.

He said these forces would "go around the country arresting illegal immigrants in large-scale raids" who would then be taken to "large-scale staging grounds near the border, most likely in Texas" to be held in internment camps prior to deportation. Trump has also spoken of rounding up homeless people in blue cities and detaining them in camps.[126]

#15 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-03 10:00 PM

Project 2025 attacks what it calls the "radical gender ideology"[89] and promotes the ideal that the government should "maintain a biblically based, social-science-reinforced definition of marriage and family."[59] To achieve this end, it proposes the recognition of only heterosexual men and women, the removal of protection against discrimination on the basis of sexual or gender identity, and the elimination of provisions pertaining to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)"what it calls "state-sanctioned racism""from federal legislation

"The goal here is to move toward colorblindness and to recognize that we need to have laws and policies that treat people like full human beings not reducible to categories, especially when it comes to race."[127] The U.S. Census Bureau would be reformed along conservative principles.

See America, conservatives have solved racism. They just declare it is no longer a thing, except racism against hetero white males.

#16 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-03 10:02 PM

As such, it [the FBI] must be thoroughly reformed and be tightly overseen by the White House. The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) must be personally accountable to the President as well

A DOJ reformed along the recommendations of Project 2025 would combat "affirmative discrimination" or "anti-white racism," citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Project 2025 acknowledges that capital punishment is a sensitive matter, but nevertheless promotes it to deal with what it considers to be an ongoing crime wave and for "particularly heinous crimes" such as pedophilia until Congress legislates otherwise

Like Trump, Project 2025 believes that the District of Columbia is infested with crime and as such suggests authorizing the Secret Service's Uniformed Division to enforce the law outside of the White House and the immediate surroundings.

he United States Armed Forces would not be authorized to take climate change into account when examining threats to national security

#17 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-03 10:06 PM

The choice is clear, liberty or fascism. There will be an underground, there will be subversive operations. You have no idea who you're ------- with.

#18 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-07-03 10:10 PM

Project 2025 insists that life begins at conception.

by explicitly rejecting the notion that abortion is health care

Project 2025 encourages the next President "to enact the most robust protections for the unborn that Congress will support

Project 2025 was "working on those sorts of executive orders and regulations" to roll back abortion policies of the Biden administration and "institutionalize the post-Dobbs environment."[21] For example, the Reproductive Healthcare Access Task Force, created by the Joe Biden administration would be replaced by a dedicated "pro-life" agency that would "use their authority to promote the life and health of women and their unborn children.

the project opposes any initiatives that, in its view, subsidizes single parenthood.

Project 2025 encourages the next administration to rescind some of the provisions of the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act of 1970 (enacted as Title X of Public Health Service Act), which offers reproductive healthcare services, and to require participating clinics to emphasize the importance of marriage to potential parents

"ethically and legally obliged to revisit and withdraw its initial approval" of the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol

everino says that the HHS should require that "every state report exactly how many abortions take place within its borders, at what gestational age of the child, for what reason, the mother's state of residence, and by what method.

o defund Planned Parenthood,[7] and to remove protection of medical records involving abortions from criminal investigations if the owners of said records cross state lines.[

In Project 2025's "Department of Justice" section, Gene Hamilton calls for enforcement of federal law against using the U.S. Postal Service for transportation of medicines that induce abortion.[62] Project 2025 seeks to revive provisions of the Comstock Act of the 1870s that banned mail delivery of any "instrument, substance, drug, medicine, or thing" that could be used for an abortion.

#19 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-03 10:12 PM

This is it.

This is just an overview of what they have in store for America.

This plan is vile.

This plan is the fever dream of racist, white christian nationalist fanatical extremists.

These are VERY unpopular positions and will be implemented through the executive branch enabled by a radical power grabbing federal judiciary.

Republicans are coming for you.

#20 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-07-03 10:15 PM

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