At first, we
all know that Project 2025 isn't a hidden agenda. Project 2025 promotes a
collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals published by the
Heritage Foundation. Project
2025 envisions widespread changes to the government, particularly economic and
social policies.
Project 2025
is a presidential transition project, referring to Jan 20, 2025, when the
architects of the project hope Donald Trump will retake the White House. While
the project doesn’t have Trump’s name on it, the director of Project 2025 specifically named Trump
as the person who will be in charge of implementing (or not) the objectives
outlined in the project’s nearly 1,000 pages’ public document.
The project
begins with three promises:
The first
promise: “restore the family” and “protect our children.”
They want to
remove anything related to gender, including the terms “gender identity, gender
equality, gender equity,” and more, from any federal rules or laws.
The same
goes for “abortion, reproductive health, and reproductive rights,” those terms
and concepts should be taken out of every “regulation and piece of legislation
that exists.”
They want to
ban pornography and imprison anyone who makes it. They say teachers and
librarians who give porn to children should be classified as sex offenders.
The
second promise: “dismantle the administrative state.”
The current
Congress is the least effective Congress in US history, in terms of legislation
passed. They have spent more time choosing a Speaker of the House than they
have working on meaningful pursuits on behalf of the American public.
And Project
2025 calls that out. They say that Congress is more interested in being famous
than doing important things, and that they pawn off their rulemaking authority
to executive departments (what they call the “Administrative State”) like the
Department of Education or the Environmental Protection Agency, instead of
doing their jobs.
The power to
make rules should not lie with the unelected executive branch, they argue. It
should reside with Congress and the president. To accomplish this, they have a
plan for how to “fire supposedly ‘un-fireable’ federal bureaucrats,” and how to
“muzzle woke propaganda at every level of government.”
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Many people repeat the idea that an incoming president in 2025 or some date in the future could come in, make ‘un-fireable’ civil servants who are not political appointees suddenly fireable, replace approximately 50,000 federal workers with political sycophants, and surround themselves with yes-men who will do their bidding. That false idea is terrifying to millions of Americans because the administrative state in fact cannot be dismantled as it stands. The Democrats can’t change it because of the unions, and the Republicans can’t do it because they don’t understand how the process works.
The third
promise: national security. But it mostly focuses on immigration and China.
Project 2025
says that “economic engagement with China should be ended, not rethought.” This
would be a radical reshaping of the US economy, which is heavily dependent on
Chinese-made goods.
They say that “pro-open border elites” want a constant flow of illegal immigration to suppress the “wages of their housekeepers, landscapers, and busboys.” Illegal immigration should not be curbed, it should be stopped completely, the document says.