Why worry about Project 2025?
Core to the Project 2025 plan is ousting thousands of civil servants and replacing them with personnel from a database of applicants, an effort to reverse the setbacks of Trump’s first term, when many of his more extreme ideas were thwarted and blocked by those refusing to break norms or overextend presidential powers.
Their goals:
Note-- it's tricky to boil this down, because they have deliberately buried these in a nearly-1000-page document. Propaganda 101. They also use vague and confusing wording about some of these goals. What's frightening is that, for many of these, they do say it out loud!
But even more chilling, according to Rep. Jared Huffman (the only atheist in the US Congress), is that some parts of Project 2025 are "secret". Yikes.
We have attempted to list some of the most important ones here. If you find more, please DO let us know!! Or, if we have heard wrong about any of these, please enlighten us, we'd appreciate it.
Core to the Project 2025 plan is ousting thousands of civil servants and replacing them with personnel from a database of applicants, an effort to reverse the setbacks of Trump’s first term, when many of his more extreme ideas were thwarted and blocked by those refusing to break norms or overextend presidential powers.
Their goals:
Note-- it's tricky to boil this down, because they have deliberately buried these in a nearly-1000-page document. Propaganda 101. They also use vague and confusing wording about some of these goals. What's frightening is that, for many of these, they do say it out loud!
But even more chilling, according to Rep. Jared Huffman (the only atheist in the US Congress), is that some parts of Project 2025 are "secret". Yikes.
We have attempted to list some of the most important ones here. If you find more, please DO let us know!! Or, if we have heard wrong about any of these, please enlighten us, we'd appreciate it.
- Replace all federal employees with Trump loyalists ("Schedule F" employees).
- Remove all funding for environmental protections and government research.
- Gut civil rights protections, including the right to attend protest rallies.
- Dismantle numerous federal agencies, including the FBI, the EPA and the Dept. of Education (which it calls a "woke education cartel"), and then return all responsibility for education to the states (imagine that for a state like Oklahoma).
- Radically alter public school funding by instituting universal "school choice" and subsidizing private school attendance, including religious schools.
- Attack birth control. Remember the Comstock act? They want to bring it back! Surreal but true.
- Punish states that require health insurance plans to cover abortion, and revoke FDA approval of mifepristone ("Plan B" pill).
- Quote from Roger Severino of the Heritage Foundation:
"Because liberal states have now become sanctuaries for abortion tourism, HHS should use every available tool, including the cutting of funds, to ensure that every state reports 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”. We're heading towards "A Handmaid's Tale", y'all.
- Quote from Roger Severino of the Heritage Foundation:
- Abolish no-fault divorce.
- Require a religious foundation for all marriages (ie, no more marriages by "officiants").
- Implement draconian censorship laws, up to the point of jailing librarians who "allow pornography", and make all pornography illegal. And this would be THEIR definition of "pornography".
- Re-implement the draft for young men and women.
- Codify anti-vaxx rules (which obviously would include dismantling federal support for future pandemics).
- Abolish all protections for the LGBTQ community (and roll back marriage equality).
- Codify Sunday as a "Sabbath day" and thus require extra pay and other special treatments for Sunday workers.
- Withdraw from the United Nations.
- Overhaul the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to support "pro-life" and "family-friendly" policies and end "gender radicalism" and "climate extremism".
- Dismantle our asylum system for immigrants, and implement mass deportations and reinstate family separation at the border.
- (note from the ACLU's site: 'If reelected, Trump has promised to use totalitarian tactics to carry out the largest mass detention and deportation program in the nation’s history. Experience from smaller-scale detention sweeps shows that his proposed policies will lead to people being stopped, arrested, or detained simply because they “look foreign,....”)'