Project 2025 is a blueprint for the conservative restructuring of government agencies and executive orders written in the 900-page book, Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, funded by the Heritage Foundation.
It has an advisory board of at least 110 organizations, including Liberty University, a Virginia institution. In the 1981 version, former President Ronald Reagan passed 60% of the policies listed in it.
President-elect Donald Trump denies involvement with Project 2025; however, his agenda will likely be influenced by the America First Policy Institute, which has similar goals and was founded by two of his former advisors.
The passing of the policies listed in Project 2025 would ultimately infringe upon millions of Americans’ lives and destroy the progress modern society has made by taking away rights, picking apart federal agencies, and discounting climate change.
Gen Z should not have to redo decades of progress that has already been made.
For a valid reason, many people in this year’s presidential election cast their vote regarding reproductive rights.
Project 2025 does not support abortion as healthcare and expresses a dislike toward chemical abortion drugs, even stating a plan within the FDA to ban mifepristone and misoprostol.
According to Pew Research, most Americans support access to reproductive rights.
In addition, the extreme Project 2025 policies do not support abortion to be guaranteed under federal law.
This deprives women of their fundamental reproductive rights, but the authors of Project 2025 disagree.
They wrote that the next president should target “woke culture warriors,” which starts with “deleting the terms…gender equity…[and] reproductive rights.” The authors want to start culture wars, not consider what is best for Americans.
Even citizens living in blue states, like Virginia, should be concerned.
The Comstock Act, an anti-obscenity mailing law, was declared unconstitutional decades ago, but far-right conservatives want to revive the act and expand its meaning.
This would make it illegal to mail any abortion-related products, including pills and medical instruments.
This federal action would trump all state protections over reproductive rights and cause a national abortion ban by denying medical institutions the tools they need to conduct safe abortions.
One recent tragedy has proven the horrors women will experience if more bans come into effect.
In the abortion-banned state of Georgia, Amber Thurman died this September after experiencing complications from an abortion pill and being denied the medical care that she desperately needed.
The policies in Project 2025 will not stop abortions from taking place, they will only ban safe ones and the US would contribute even more to the worldwide annual 68,000 maternal abortion-related deaths.
Concerningly, the blueprint suggests eliminating the Department of Education, which Trump has said he wants to do.
The federal government would give block grants to states’ funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to decide how to spend the money.
There would be discrepancies in accommodations across our nation, ultimately leading to a loss in services for kids who need the most support.
The authors of Project 2025 claim the Department of Education “injects racist, anti-American, ahistorical propaganda into America’s classrooms.”
The current department creates guidelines that all schools must follow to ensure students are not discriminated against or treated unequally; however, the dislike toward teaching about transgenderism, race, and the LGBTQ community in schools is expressed several times in Project 2025.
In contrast, modern society is widely accepting of these matters, and shielding children from the realities of the world is pure ignorance and repression.
One of the book’s “Conservative promises” is to protect children, yet the agenda ignores the significance of climate change.
The policies state that the US would leave the Paris Agreement and U.N. Framework Convention, which are international efforts to combat climate change.
The “wokeness” the authors strongly despise and attack in the book is the state of being aware of social injustices.
Project 2025 Conservatives, by looking for a long-lost America that never existed, are inhibiting positive change.
The beliefs of old America fuel Project 2025’s agenda.
Whether the policies are executed or not, the fact that they were written and supported by many people is a massive setback to society’s progress toward equality, safety, and change.
