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PROJECT 2025: BLUEPRINT FOR A NEW REICH
Very scary: ex-Trump official lays out how Project 2025 will break the government - Raw StoryDeveloped by the far-right Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 proposes replacing the federal civil service with Republican partisans, ending the independence the FBI and DOJ to let the president oversee prosecutions, imposing Christian nationalism in law, and the defunding or abolition of a wide range of essential federal programs
there's some very controversial parts of it," said Griffin. "One is eradicating Social Security, which he knows is obviously a political loser. But listen, people deeply connected to Donald Trump were part of this. He obviously praised it. He's going to be the first to tell you that Agenda 47 is actually his plan and platform."
"But the key part of Project 2025 ... I think it's the most important part for Americans to understand, is this reshaping of the federal government," Griffin continued. "And I saw the actual executive order at the end of the last administration, ready to go, that would remake every civil servant into a political appointee and a loyalist to Trump. And it goes beyond Social Security and some of these technical things. It's the national security apparatus. It's our emergency management. It's FEMA, it's responding to natural disasters, pandemics, those would all be our subject matter experts, the Dr. Faucis of the world, would be replaced with whatever loyalist he puts into those positions."
"So it's a very, very scary thing that's actionable and ready to go by Donald Trump," she concluded.
there's some very controversial parts of it," said Griffin. "One is eradicating Social Security, which he knows is obviously a political loser. But listen, people deeply connected to Donald Trump were part of this. He obviously praised it. He's going to be the first to tell you that Agenda 47 is actually his plan and platform."
"But the key part of Project 2025 ... I think it's the most important part for Americans to understand, is this reshaping of the federal government," Griffin continued. "And I saw the actual executive order at the end of the last administration, ready to go, that would remake every civil servant into a political appointee and a loyalist to Trump. And it goes beyond Social Security and some of these technical things. It's the national security apparatus. It's our emergency management. It's FEMA, it's responding to natural disasters, pandemics, those would all be our subject matter experts, the Dr. Faucis of the world, would be replaced with whatever loyalist he puts into those positions."
"So it's a very, very scary thing that's actionable and ready to go by Donald Trump," she concluded.
Political leaders say Black voters should be terrified of Project 2025 - TheGrio
Vice President Kamala Harris warned that the 900-page document of proposals includes cutting Social Security, repealing the Biden-Harris administration’s $35 cap on insulin, eliminating the Department of Education and ending federal programs like Head Start.
“Let us be clear: This represents an outright attack on our children, our families, and our future,” said Harris.
“Let us be clear: This represents an outright attack on our children, our families, and our future,” said Harris.
Project 2025 Is Twisting Disability Rights Law to Attack Abortion – Mother Jones
Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s guidebook for Republican control of the presidency and Congress, is, unsurprisingly, coming for abortion rights. But in a new twist, they want to use a key disability rights law to do it.
Project 2025 Director Paul Dans in Resurfaced Interview: Donald Trump Is ‘Very Bought In’ - DailyBeast
Stunning Report Reveals Just How Closely Trump Is Tied to Project 2025 - The New Republic
What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan for a Second Trump Term - People
The policy guidebook — compiled by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation in partnership with more than 100 other conservative organizations — lays out a far-right, Christian nationalist vision for America that would corrode the separation of church and state, replace nonpartisan government employees with Trump loyalists and bolster the president's authority over independent agencies.
Project 2025 will radically revise taxes. You're not going to like it - Dailykos
During Trump’s time in the White House, his biggest priority was a huge tax cut for corporations and billionaires that Republicans raced to pass in 2017, mere months after Trump sat down in the Oval Office.
Republicans are now trying to extend that tax cut, at a cost of adding $4.6 trillion to the deficit over the next decade. But the Project 2025 plan goes much further than simply extending these cuts.
Trump's deceptive “no tax on tips” scheme isn't in there. Neither is replacing the income tax with an all-tariff system, as Trump has proposed.
Republicans are now trying to extend that tax cut, at a cost of adding $4.6 trillion to the deficit over the next decade. But the Project 2025 plan goes much further than simply extending these cuts.
Trump's deceptive “no tax on tips” scheme isn't in there. Neither is replacing the income tax with an all-tariff system, as Trump has proposed.
Video from 2022 Shows Trump Praising Project 2025's 'Colossal Mandate' at Heritage Foundation Event - Snopes
The View's Ana Navarro Says Project 2025’s Plan To “Criminalize Pornography” Should “Scare The Hell Out Of Republicans” - Decider
Project 2025 would fundamentally change public education - The Hill The Department of Education would be eliminated, student loans would be privatized and federal legislation on parental rights would be pushed under Project 2025, the conservative wish list of policies put together for the next Republican president that has sparked widespread controversy.
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repealing the 13th Amendment (abolition of slavery)? Or using some kind of executive order to bypass it--with SCROTUS SIX approval?
Or are they hiding that part of the plan? You know they want to.
The Plan To Seize Power by Gutting America’s System of Checks and Balances - Center for American Progress
Inside the Heritage Foundation’s Plans for ‘Institutionalizing Trumpism’ - The New York Times “People will lose their jobs,” the think tank’s president says about federal workers. “Hopefully their lives are able to flourish in spite of that.”
Project 2025 leader The Heritage Foundation calls for Social Security cuts - Media Matters Heritage's recommendation to raise the retirement age to 70 would amount to a 20% cut in benefits
Project 2025 is a takeover agenda of the U.S. government by Trump loyalists (Video) - MSNBC Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair Rep. Nanette Barragán, D-Calif., joins José Díaz-Balart to discuss why her caucus released a statement in support of President Biden and her concerns about... Trump.
Trump is trying to distance himself from Project 2025 -- but its architects helped shape his RNC party platform - ABC News
Project 2025 plans to dismantle the federal agency that tracks hurricanes - Media Matters
Republicans want to kill the Dept. of Ed and privatize education. Billionaires are helping them. - Yahoo
Chris Hayes Explains How Trumps Project 2025 Makes Climate Change Worse - The Wrap
Republicans know Americans despise Project 2025. They don’t care - Dailykos
MEANWHILE, TRUMP'S FASCISTS ARE FOAMING AT THE BIT:
Wait until 2025: Former Trump official makes chilling promise at far-right conference - Raw Story
Many of the proposals in Project 2025 are sweeping and would eliminate fundamental personal freedoms while cutting the take-home pay of millions of Americans. Unsurprisingly, Project 2025’s policies to increase taxes on the middle class, allow corporations to stop paying workers overtime, implement a national abortion ban, and raise the retirement age for Social Security are wildly unpopular.
That is why the most striking aspect of Project 2025 is a new strategy to gut the system of checks and balances that has long protected Americans’ personal freedoms.
This strategy would concentrate power in the hands of the president—and set in motion a plan to flood the civil service with far-right loyalists to seize control of independent agencies.
It is a playbook written for an authoritarian administration. This new vision would make it even harder for the American people to have a say in their government or oppose policies they disagree with.
That is why the most striking aspect of Project 2025 is a new strategy to gut the system of checks and balances that has long protected Americans’ personal freedoms.
This strategy would concentrate power in the hands of the president—and set in motion a plan to flood the civil service with far-right loyalists to seize control of independent agencies.
It is a playbook written for an authoritarian administration. This new vision would make it even harder for the American people to have a say in their government or oppose policies they disagree with.
Inside the Heritage Foundation’s Plans for ‘Institutionalizing Trumpism’ - The New York Times “People will lose their jobs,” the think tank’s president says about federal workers. “Hopefully their lives are able to flourish in spite of that.”
Project 2025 leader The Heritage Foundation calls for Social Security cuts - Media Matters Heritage's recommendation to raise the retirement age to 70 would amount to a 20% cut in benefits
Project 2025 is a takeover agenda of the U.S. government by Trump loyalists (Video) - MSNBC Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair Rep. Nanette Barragán, D-Calif., joins José Díaz-Balart to discuss why her caucus released a statement in support of President Biden and her concerns about... Trump.
Trump is trying to distance himself from Project 2025 -- but its architects helped shape his RNC party platform - ABC News
Project 2025 plans to dismantle the federal agency that tracks hurricanes - Media Matters
Republicans want to kill the Dept. of Ed and privatize education. Billionaires are helping them. - Yahoo
The youth [who[ benefit from private school vouchers are not the economically disadvantaged students that voucher proponents tout, [a] report found.
Instead, 65 to 95 percent of private school voucher recipients never attended public school, according to data from states including Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, New Hampshire and Wisconsin.
Instead, 65 to 95 percent of private school voucher recipients never attended public school, according to data from states including Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, New Hampshire and Wisconsin.
Chris Hayes Explains How Trumps Project 2025 Makes Climate Change Worse - The Wrap
Republicans know Americans despise Project 2025. They don’t care - Dailykos
MEANWHILE, TRUMP'S FASCISTS ARE FOAMING AT THE BIT:
Wait until 2025: Former Trump official makes chilling promise at far-right conference - Raw Story
One senior-level official from Donald Trump's administration just made an ominous threat to the immigrant community during a recent gathering of far-right political activists.
Semafor reporter Dave Weigel reported that during the National Conservatism conference (also known as "NatCon"
in Washington, D.C., several of the speakers eagerly expressed how they would help [Trump] accomplish his goal of pursuing vengeance against his political opponents if elected to a second term.
During one panel, Tom Homan – who was director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Trump's Department of Homeland Security – suggested he was already working behind the scenes to make Trump's promise to deport millions of immigrants as draconian as possible.
" Trump comes back in January, I’ll be on his heels coming back, and I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen,” Homan said. “They ain’t seen s— yet. Wait until 2025.”
Semafor reporter Dave Weigel reported that during the National Conservatism conference (also known as "NatCon"
in Washington, D.C., several of the speakers eagerly expressed how they would help [Trump] accomplish his goal of pursuing vengeance against his political opponents if elected to a second term.
During one panel, Tom Homan – who was director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Trump's Department of Homeland Security – suggested he was already working behind the scenes to make Trump's promise to deport millions of immigrants as draconian as possible.
" Trump comes back in January, I’ll be on his heels coming back, and I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen,” Homan said. “They ain’t seen s— yet. Wait until 2025.”
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