Tag: Heritage Foundation

Project 2025

Vote for Democracy #31

Remember Project 2025, the lengthy document spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation to lay out plans for the “conservative president” they expected to be elected and which mirrored Trump’s Agenda 47 and the Republican party platform? Many public policy experts and commentators wrote about its extreme views and the impact it would have on Americans if implemented.

While Trump was on record as supporting it and many of its authors were former members of this administration, when it was more widely publicized in the media during his presidential campaign and proved to be massively unpopular with the electorate, he disavowed it.

Much of the flood of executive orders and administrative actions launched last week are in line with Project 2025, though, and people who were involved with its creation are coming back to the White House, although some, like Project 2025’s chief architect Russell Vought, nominee to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget, must be confirmed by the Senate.

Trump is still insisting he knows nothing about Project 2025.

Unbelievable.
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I’m posting this early in the day before I head to the hospital for my angiogram. I hope to get an update on that out tomorrow. Meanwhile, join us for Linda’s Just Jot It January! Find out more here: https://lindaghill.com/2025/01/27/daily-prompt-jusjojan-the-27th-2025/

One-Liner Wednesday: Project 2025 and taxes

Project 2025, the lengthy document spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation to lay out plans for the “conservative president” they expect to be elected this year and which mirrors Trump’s Agenda 47 and the Republican party platform, would raise middle class taxes by thousands of dollars per year per household while lowering taxes by over a million dollars per year per household for those making over $10 million.

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One-Liner Wednesday: Project 2025 and the EPA

Project 2025, the lengthy document spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation to lay out plans for the “conservative president” they expect to be elected this year, would gut the Environmental Protection Agency, sending most of those responsibilities to state and local governments who could then ignore the impacts of their industries on the public and the planet, starting with a Day One Executive Order and political appointees (pp. 422-3).

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One-Liner Wednesday: civil service

Project 2025, the lengthy document spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation to lay out plans for the “conservative president” they expect to be elected this year, would gut the civil service by reclassifying many policy and technical expert positions so that they could be fired without cause, giving the president the power to fire them at will, something that Trump did by executive order a few weeks before the 2020 election but which President Biden immediately rescinded when he took office, again protecting government employees from being fired for political reasons. (pp.43-44 and following)

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One-Liner Wednesday: Dept. of Education

Project 2025, the lengthy document spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation to lay out plans for the “conservative president” they expect to be elected this year, calls for the elimination of the Department of Education and limitations on federally supported services such as special education, school meals, Title IX, and student loans. (pp. 319-361)

This information is provided to assist US voters as they make decisions for this year’s election as part of Linda’s One-Liner Wednesday series, which you may learn more about here: https://lindaghill.com/2024/07/10/one-liner-wednesday-i-love-my-neighbourhood-2/. (#1linerWeds are usually fun and/or inspirational. I’m just in serious political mode these days…)