Opponents of voting rights spent 2024 disavowing the Heritage Foundation's "Project 2025", John. Now that they're in control they are following that playbook line by line.
Organized by the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing, dark money, inside-the-beltway, anti-voting think tank, and advised by more than 100 conservative groups, Project 2025 put forth a 922-page list of policy recommendations, going agency by agency in the federal government.
So far the Trump administration has followed Project 2025 in five major ways:
➜ Filling the administration with the authors of Project 2025. From installing Russell Vought, the main author, as head of OMB to making the head of the FCC section head of the FCC to and more, the author's list is basically being appointed to powerful positions en masse.
➜ Mass firings in the civil service. Elon Musk's DOGE team started with a buyout scheme for federal employees and is now threatening layoffs. Project 2025 calls for replacing them with MAGA henchmen.
➜ Military immigration enforcement. They've promised to deploy U.S. troops on our domestic borders.
➜ Persecuting transgender Americans. The Trump administration has attacked gender identity across the board.
➜ Environmental rollbacks. From pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords (again) to opening Alaska's land to drilling to valuing fossil fuels over all other forms of energy production, they're dismantling environmental regulation piece by piece.
This is just the start. If they've already done all this, you can bet Project 2025's recommendations for voter suppression are coming soon. We must use this playbook of theirs against them and fight back however we can.
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