Project 2025 – Trump’s Plans If Elected

by Martina Agunoy

Donald Trump promised he’d be a dictator on day one.  The 922 pages of Project 2025 published by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation are terrifying plans the Republicans have to replace our democracy with a dictatorship run by right-wing fascists, dismantle our government, and tear down the United States and life as we know it.  Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership 2025:  The Conservative Promise” sets out the radical actions Republicans will take in the first six months of Trump’s second term.

The Foreword to Project 2025 (page 13), written by Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance, tells what Republicans mean by freedom:  the requirement that each person obey the duties of the authors’ views of Christianity, pursue “blessedness” and find fulfillment in the confines of marriage and children.  Read Project2025.org. or watch its training videos.

Donald Trump’s senility has been covered up for months.  While Joe Biden is constantly criticized for simply aging – talking and walking slowly but still mentally competent – Trump gets a free pass.  His psychologist niece Mary Trump warned of his dementia and said American Psychiatric Association rules prohibit MDs from professional opinions.  Republicans refuse to remove Trump because as long as he has power, they can manipulate him to do as they direct. 

Kamala Harris invited viewers to watch Trump’s rallies to see his cognitive decline.  FOX News stopped broadcasting Trump’s rallies because his mental incapacity is too evident. Trump:

• praises the “late, great Hannibal Lecter, a fine human being” 
• tells that California has a giant faucet that diverts all the water to the Pacific Ocean
• insists immigrants steal their neighbors’ cats and dogs and steal geese from parks to eat them
• says that windmills cause cancer in whales and humans 
• claims that children go to school as a boy or girl then come home as the opposite gender, without any parental consent
• talks about choosing between being eaten by sharks or electrocuted by batteries in seawater
• claims that in Democratic states, doctors can kill babies who were just born, something that never happens anywhere in the country

People would consider anyone else a crazy man for talking like this.  Trump is fit to be in a nursing home, not in the White House.  He should not be anywhere near our military’s nuclear codes.

Republicans want to control your sex life, even if the mother dies

Deaths among pregnant women rose by 56% in Texas since Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022.  In Texas, private citizens can sue those who help pregnant woman travel and can sue doctors or clinic employees who help or arrange for abortions.  The fear of being sued by anyone ended abortion in Texas even before Roe was overturned.  Women with cancer or other conditions requiring treatment that hurts the fetus are not protected.  Doctors are afraid to save lives because of the threat of criminal prosecution, loss of medical licenses, fines, and bounty hunter lawsuits.

• 1 in 5 pregnancies ends in a miscarriage and an abortion is needed to remove the dead fetus to prevent the mother from dying of infection   
• 22 Republican-led states have abortion bans
• 1 in 3 women of childbearing age lives in a Republican-led state with an abortion ban

Project 2025:

• Allows emergency rooms to deny abortions to save a mother’s life
• Blocks access to birth control
• Orders the Centers for Disease Control to monitor and track pregnancies and miscarriages to prevent abortion and to require pregnancies to be carried to birth.  States that refuse to provide this data would lose federal funding.
• Allows criminal prosecution of women who receive abortions
• Prohibits training medical students on abortion procedures, which techniques are also used to save pregnant women’s lives when complications arise
• Renames the Dept. of Health and Human Services to the Department of Life, to “maintain a biblically based definition of marriage and family”
• Allows institutions to deny reproductive care in all 50 states
• Bans mailing abortion pills
• Criminalizes pornography
• Prohibits in vitro fertilization because embryos are given the legal status as persons born

If you work for the federal government, you will lose your job 

• Tens of thousands of federal workers would be immediately fired and replaced by Trump loyalists.  Merit would be replaced by loyalty as the basis for hiring in federal jobs.
• Thousands more federal employees would be fired under abolishment of the Department of Education, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce, Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, Office of State and Community Energy Programs, and Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Programs, and others.
• Trump would control agencies that currently operate independently based on expertise.

If you have a job, expect to lose pay and opportunities

• Allows employers to stop paying for overtime pay by changing the rules on overtime
• Remove all unions
• Favors Jews and Christians in union-sponsored apprenticeship or vocational education
• Directs federal prosecution of all employers that promote DEI in their workforce, including state and local governments – resulting inevitably with hiring fewer non-whites or women

President Biden is the most labor friendly president in our history, being the first to join workers on the picket line.  He averted the recent ports strike by refusing to invoke the Taft-Hartley law and instead encouraged management to share its profits with the workers who produce them.

Presidents Obama and Biden expanded workers’ ability to earn overtime pay by increasing the threshold under which employers must pay for overtime. Obama set the threshold to $47,476 (1.3 million workers) and Biden raised that to $58,656 (4 million workers).  President Trump slashed the limit to $35,568, blocking workers who earned more than this from getting overtime pay.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) would lose its independence

• Removes independence of 2,000 locally elected district attorneys across country
• Removes independence of DOJ, giving control of prosecutions to Trump
• Trump promised on October 13-14. 2024 that he would send the military to arrest, prosecute, and potentially execute political opponents.

Innocent people could be prosecuted on false charges if deemed “an enemy” and preventing prosecutions of crimes for “friends”. Trump Attorney General Bill Barr blocked prosecution of Trump for illegally accepting $10 million cash from the Egyptian government, and prosecution under the Mueller investigation.

The Republicans are setting up people to die of natural disasters

• Dismantles National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which tracks tornadoes, floods, snowstorms, hurricanes, tsunami, storm surges, derechos, and weather.  NOAA is the source of evacuation warnings to leave affected areas or seek shelter.
• Abolishes federal aid for disasters, shifting all costs to the states
• Eliminates disaster relief loans to small businesses
• Privatizes the National Flood Insurance Program that provides affordable insurance to almost 23,000 communities in high-risk flood areas, a move that leads to unaffordable rates and uninsured homeowners.

Trump as president refused to help victims of natural disasters unless they voted for him.    

• Hurricane Matthew, North Carolina, October 2016, damage $1.5 billion, 26 dead
• North Carolina needed $929 million – Trump approved $6.1 million in aid
• Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico, September 2017, 3,000 dead — no aid
• COVID: diverted supplies and equipment ordered by Democratic states to Republican states
• Wildfires, California, 2018

To get him to approve aid, security aides Mark Harvey and Olivia Troye had to show him there were more Trump voters among wildfire victims than in all of Iowa.

• Trump pledged on October 12, 2024 in Coachella not to send wildfire aid to California
• Olivia Troye reported that government officials regularly called her office begging for help because Trump refused to sign documents approving disaster aid. 

The Republicans will abolish public schools

• Abolishes Department of Education
• Eliminates HeadStart, which provides preschool for children from low-income families
• J.D. Vance said the solution to childcare is for aunts and grandparents to watch children, and that this was the function of post-menopausal women.

Republicans plan to restrict access to medical treatment and let you die

• Eliminates Obamacare, depriving tens of millions of Americans (in 2024, 21.3 new enrollees)
• Allows insurers to deny coverage for medical treatment
• Allows denial of enrollment in health plans to anyone who has a pre-existing condition
• Changes Medicare to a “prior authorization provider network” system where treatment can be denied and patients have to use providers in the network 
• Increase Medicare prescription drug prices, reversing price cuts achieved by Biden (insulin cap $35/month, caps on 10 most common prescriptions for senior citizens)

Immigration

• Elimates: family-based visas, Guest Worker visas, student visas from “enemy” nations
• Reduces: “high skill worker” visas, seasonal workers (e.g., farm labor), student visas
• Limits: eligibility for work authorizations 
• Targets for deportation about 11 million migrants, with a 100% deportation rate
• Empowers Federal agents to arrest immigrants in private homes, churches, job sites, and schools, without checking if these persons have documents of legal status
• Overseen by Tom Homan, who separated children from parents at border without records for reuniting families – Homan said he did not care about the controversy.

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