Veto Project 2025
and the Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation is one of the most influential right-wing think tanks in the US and one of the most extreme. They are responsible for the current make-up of the Supreme Court. They created Project 2025 as a blueprint for the next conservative president to push through their radical agenda. Though Trump pretends to know nothing about Project 2025, many in his White House leadership team are responsible for crafting it and he’s mentioned more than 300 times in the text. In his first term, President Trump relied heavily on Heritage’s “Mandate” for policy guidance, embracing nearly two-thirds of Heritage’s proposals within just one year in office.
Project 2025 is an extreme right manifesto and action plan for Trump’s second term. The document is a 920-page blueprint for how, exactly, to carry out their radical vision, through recommendations for key White House staff, cabinet positions, Congress, federal agencies, commissions and boards. The plan goes so far as to outline a vetting process for appointing and hiring the right people in every level of government to carry out this vision. The promise is to restore a socially conservative, corporate-friendly, Christian-led America.
The New Republic describes Project 2025 as a “remarkably detailed guide to turning the United States into a fascist’s paradise”. It lays out what is essentially a “Christian nationalist vision of the United States, one in which married heterosexuality is the only valid form of expression and identity; all pregnancies would be carried to term, even if that requires coercion or death; and transgender and gender-nonconforming people do not exist.” The idea is to enact the plan in the first 180 days of Trump’s term to “bring quick relief to Americans suffering from the radical Left’s devastating policies”.
Some Key Features of Project 2025
Greatly expand the powers of the president and reduce his accountability
Restore a socially conservative, corporate-friendly, Christian-led America
Vastly restrict abortion access by enforcing the Comstock Act passed in 1873
Require the government to monitor women’s pregnancies and report miscarriages
Withdraw the abortion pill mifepristone from the market
Curtail access to contraception
End stem cell research
Shrink the social safety net, set new limits on Medicaid coverage
Repeal the governments ability to negotiate Medicare drug prices
Dismantle the “Administrative State” making agencies like the EPA powerless
Place the Dept. of Justice under direct presidential control because it has become “infatuated with the perpetuation of a radical liberal agenda”
Eliminate the Dept. of Education, reverse expansion of school lunch programs
Abolish the Federal Reserve, allow the president to influence interest rates
Eliminate birthright citizenship first established by 14th Amendment in 1868
Drastically overhaul the FBI because it’s a “bloated, arrogant, increasingly lawless organization”
Dismantle the nonpartisan federal civil service reform established by law in 1883, sack thousands of civil servants and replace them with Trump loyalists
Eliminate the separation of church & state
Affirms that the government should “maintain a biblically based, social-science-reinforced definition of marriage and family”
Install parental control over schools to combat “woke propaganda”
Eliminate terms including “abortion”, “sexual orientation”, “diversity, equity, and inclusion”, “gender equality”, “reproductive rights” and “reproductive health” from every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.
Undermine marriage equality
Slash corporate & income taxes
Increase funding for the border wall
Consolidate various US immigration agencies & vastly expand their powers
Increase fees on immigrants and allow fast-tracked applications for migrants who pay a premium
Eliminate the White House’s Office of Domestic Climate Policy
Dismantle the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) because it constitutes “one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.” Privatize weather forcasts.
Slash federal money for research and investment in renewable energy
Replace carbon-reduction goals with efforts to increase energy production to counteract the Biden Administration’s “climate fanaticism”
Ban pornography, shut down tech & telecom companies that facilitate access to porn
And more…