People are worried all over about Project 2025, so this article will go all in about. Project 2025 is the Presidential Transition Project. Project 2025 was made and posted in April 2022. It is a wish list for if Donald J. Trump ever goes back into office.
Many believe that Donald Trump is behind and leads Project 2025, however, he has stated that he has nothing to do with Project 2025.
In the recent 2024 Presidential debate, Kamala Harris questioned Donald Trump if he had anything to do with it. Donald Trump followed up with, “I have nothing to do as she knows better than anyone, I have nothing to do with Project 2025. That is out there. I have not read it. I don’t want to read it, purposely. I’m not going to read it,” he said.
Donald Trump claims he does not have anything to do with crafting Project 2025, as it is led by a select group of people. This group of people, The Heritage Foundation, is a conservative-led group, combined with 140 former Trump White House staffers, penned the plan.
The leader of Project 2025, up until his resignation on July 30, 2024, is Paul Dans. He, like others involved with the plan, used to work under the Trump administration. One of the Associate Directors is Spencer Chretien. The other is Troup Hemenway. The current President of Project 2025 is Keith Roberts.
Project 2025 was made to reshape the U.S. and give more power to the President. It was made as a wish-list so that when the next Republican president took over, they would put some of these laws into effect. The goal of Project 2025, directly from the homepage of its website, is “Building for conservative victory through policy, personnel, and training.”
If the member of the Conservative-led Republican party, Donald Trump, wins November’s Presidential election, then Project 2025 is expected to take effect in January of 2025.
One of Project 2025’s main goals is to take away many powers that the national government has and give it back to the states. Project 2025 wants to make the federal government smaller and leveled. They want to abolish the Department of Education; Department of Homeland Security; National Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration; Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; and the Transportation Security Administration.
Project 2025 also wishes to get rid of many current rights specific to the transgender population. It plans to reject it altogether by first bringing back the ban for trans people to serve in the U.S. military. It also would reject their healthcare rights, and gender surgery would no longer be covered by federal funds. Project 2025 also wants to get rid of DEI and LGBTQ rights.
The document argues to get rid of protections in place for diversity, equity, and inclusion standards (DEI). “The next conservative President,” the document says, “must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors.”
Project 2025 also wishes to reshape Medicare by significantly cutting its funding, while also forcing everyone to set their default Medicare to Medicare Advantage. This would cost more money and put Medicare close to an end.
Project 2025 also wishes to severely injure women’s reproductive rights by bringing back the Comstock Act of 1873. They hope to bring back the Comstock Act, which threatens a ban on the sale of abortion medication.
Another topic on its list is its proposed extreme measures on both immigrants and immigration. They plan to let the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of Removal Operations take full control of all immigration. It plans to get rid of the birthright citizenship and do mass deportation raids.
Project 2025 also wants to get rid of talking about slavery, racism, gender, and oppression in class. They believe these topics are too harsh and plan on enforcing this by cutting the budget of schools that discuss it in the curriculum.
Project 2025 would plan to raise taxes for the middle class and lowering taxes for the wealthy. Their plan is to get rid of all the current tax rates and instead bring in a 15% tax rate for anyone making less than 160,800 a year; for people making more annually, the rate would be 30%.
Ultimately, many are worried about the implications of a Trump Presidency, what it would mean for minorities, immigrants, and other vulnerable populations, and how much this proposed plan will affect them in the long term.
