• Project 2025- The Conservative Plan for Our Future

    900 Pages. 4.1 Pounds. Infinite Cruelty.

     

    Project 2025 is the game plan developed by a team of conservative, Christian Nationalists to conform our society to fit their narrow beliefs. It is funded by a shadow network of billionaires who have already committed
    $4,715,118,999 to the cause.

     

    Project 2025 could mean the end of: access to abortion, IVF, and contraception; adequate public education funding and resources; racialjustice reform; LBGTQ+ equality; climate change efforts; and our Democracy.

     

    We invite you to read this executive summary of the Project 2025 Plan. The summary includes specific references within various categories, like those mentioned above, and the page numbers within the plan itself for
    your information.

    EDUCATE YOURSELF, INFORM OTHERS, VOTE!

     

    This is the plan. Footnotes below indicate where to find this in the Mandate for Leadership document linked here:

    https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

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    Note: The explanations following each numbered item below are a direct

    quote/extraction from the Project 2025 document itself.

     

    1. Put Medicare on the path to privatization

    Make Medicare Advantage the default enrollment option. (pg. 465) 

    For an explanation of the difference between traditional Medicare and market-

    based Medicare Advantage:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/05/health/medicare-seniors-health.html 2

     

    a. Repeal President Bidenā€™s Medicaid drug price negotiation program This ā€œnegotiationā€ program should be repealed, and reforms in Part D that will have meaningful impact for seniors should be pursued. (pg. 465)

    b. Threaten Medicaid Coverage for hundreds of thousands of Americans The dramatic increase in Medicaid expenditures is due in large part to the ACA (Obamacare), which mandates that states must expand their Medicaid eligibility standards to include all individuals at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) (pg.466)

    As Medicaid enrollment continues to climb, it is imperative that there are appropriate and accurate eligibility standards to ensure that the program remains focused on serving those who are in need. To this end, CMS should: a. Hold states accountable for improper eligibility determinations.

    c .Require more robust eligibility determinations.

    Strengthen asset test determinations within Medicaid. (pg. 467)

     

    2. Reduce the Biden Administrationā€™s Student Debt Relief Efforts

     

    a. The new Administration must end abuses in the loan forgiveness programs.

    Borrowers should be expected to repay their loans. (pg. 322)

    b. End time-based and occupation-based student loan forgiveness. (pg. 361)

     

    3. Withdraw from the U.N. Framework Convention on climate change and the

    Paris Climate Agreement

     

    a. To that end, the next conservative Administration should withdraw the U.S. from

    the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change74 and the Paris Agreement.

    (pg. 709)

    b. Remove the U.S. from any association with U.N. and other efforts to push

    sustainable-development schemes connected to food production. (pg. 293)

     

    4. Repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, President Bidenā€™s landmark climate law

     

    Support repeal of massive spending bills like the Infrastructure Investment and

    Jobs Act (IIJA)3 and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA),4 which established new

    programs and are providing hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to

    renewable energy developers, their investors, and special interests, and support

    the rescinding of all funds not already spent by these programs. (pg. 365)

     

    5. Shred greenhouse gas regulations and gut clean energy programs

     

    a. Remove the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) for any source

    category that is not currently being regulated. (pg. 425)

    b. End the focus on climate change and green subsidies. (pg. 378)

    c. Eliminate energy efficiency standards for appliances. (pg. 378)

    d. Eliminate the Clean Energy Corps by revoking funding and eliminating all

    positions and personnel hired under the program. (386)

    e. Repeal climate change initiatives and spending in the departmentā€™s budget

    request. (pg. 508)

    f. End federal mandates and subsidies of electric vehicles. (pg. 537)

    g. Treasury has created a new departmental office, ā€œClimate Hub,ā€ and has made

    ā€œcombating climate changeā€ one of the Biden Treasury Departmentā€™s top five

    principal goals. The next Administration should eliminate the Climate Hub Office

    and withdraw from climate change agreements that are inimical to the prosperity

    of the United States. (pg. 708-709)

     

    6. Replace the White House climate advisor with someone focused on boosting

    the fossil fuel industry.

     

    a. Stop the war on oil and natural gas. (pg. 365)

    b. Eliminate political and climate-change interference in DOE approvals of liquefied

    natural gas (LNG) exports. (pg. 369)

    c. USAID should cease its war on fossil fuels in the developing world and support

    the responsible management of oil and gas reserves as the quickest way to end

    wrenching poverty and the need for open-ended foreign aid. The next

    conservative Administration should rescind all climate policies from its foreign aid

    programs (specifically USAIDā€™s Climate Strategy 2022ā€“20307 ); shut down the

    agencyā€™s offices, programs, and directives designed to advance the Paris Climate

    Agreement; and narrowly limit funding to traditional climate mitigation efforts.

    (pg. 257)

    d. Eliminate carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) programs.(pg. 376)

    e. Rename FECM (if it cannot be eliminated) under its original designation as the

    Office of Fossil Energy and with its original mission: increasing energy security

    and supply through fossil fuels. (pg. 377)

     

    7. Give Trump the power to reject all climate science research directed by the

    Biden administration.

     

    a. ā€¦the Biden Administrationā€™s climate fanaticism will need a whole-of-government unwinding. (pg. 60)

    b. The President should issue an executive order establishing a Senior Advisor to

    coordinate the policy development and implementation of relevant energy and

    environment policy by officials across the EOP (for example, the policy staff of

    the NSC, NEC, DPC, CEQ, and OSTP) and abolishing the existing Office of

    Domestic Climate Policy. (pg. 61)

     

    8. Gut the federal workforce and install loyalists by making tens of thousands of

    civil servants ā€œfireableā€ at Trumpā€™s will.

     

    Background information: the Trump Administration issued Executive Order 1395724 to

    make career professionals in positions that are not normally subject to change as a

    result of a presidential transition but who discharge significant duties and exercise

    significant discretion in formulating and implementing executive branch policy and

    programs an exception to the competitive hiring rules and examinations for career

    positions under a new Schedule F. It ordered the Director of OPM and agency heads to

    set procedures to prepare lists of such confidential, policy-determining, policymaking, or

    policy-advocating positions and prepare procedures to create exceptions from civil

    service rules when careerists hold such positions, from which they can relocate back to

    the regular civil service after such service.

     

    a. In order to carry out the Presidentā€™s desires, political appointees must be given

    the tools, knowledge, and support to overcome the federal governmentā€™s

    obstructionist Human Resources departments. More fundamentally, the new

    Administration must fill its ranks with political appointees. (pg. 20)

    b. From Personnel Database questionnaire (view full questionnaire below):

    The president should be able to advance his/her agenda through the

    bureaucracy without hinderance from unelected federal officials. Please select

    agree, disagree, neither agree not disagree.

     

    9. Allow ICE to conduct raids at schools, churches, hospitals, playgrounds and

    other sensitive areas.

     

    a. The role of ICE Deportation Officers should be clarified. ICE Enforcement and

    Removal Operations (ERO) should be identified as being primarily

    responsible for enforcing civil immigration regulations, including the civil arrest,

    detention, and removal of immigration violators anywhere in the United States,

    without warrant where appropriate, subject only to the civil warrant requirements

    of the INA where appropriate. (pg. 142)

    b. All ICE memoranda identifying ā€œsensitive zonesā€ where ICE personnel are

    prohibited from operating should be rescinded. Rely on the good judgment of

    officers in the field to avoid inappropriate situations. (pg. 142)

     

    10. Make federal government establish marriage between a man and a woman as

    the ā€œideal, natural family structure.ā€

     

    a. The next conservative President must get to work pursuing the true priority of politicsā€”the well-being of the American family. In many ways, the entire point of centralizing political power is to subvert the family. Its purpose is to replace peopleā€™s natural loves and loyalties with unnatural ones. (pg. 4)

    b. Families comprised of a married mother, father, and their children are the foundation of a well-ordered nation and healthy society. Unfortunately, family policies and programs under President Bidenā€™s HHS are fraught with agenda items focusing on ā€œLGBTQ+ equity,ā€ subsidizing single-motherhood, disincentivizing work, and penalizing marriage. These policies should be repealed and replaced by policies that support the formation of stable, married,nuclear families. (pg. 451)

    c. Protect faith-based grant recipients from religious liberty violations and maintain

    a biblically based, social scienceā€“reinforced definition of marriage and family. (pg. 481)

    d. Additionally, the positive role of faith-based programs should be protected by the

    Department of Health and Human Services and prioritized so that these programs do not receive undue scrutiny or pressure to conform to nonreligious definitions of marriage and family as put forward by the recently enacted Respect for Marriage Act. (pgs. 480-481)

    e. HMRE program grants should be available to faith-based recipients who affirm

    that marriage is between not just any two adults, but one man and one unrelated

    woman. (pg. 481)

     

    11. Withdraw federal anti-discrimination protections for transgender students.

     

    a. Rescind regulations prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation,

    gender identity, transgender status, and sex characteristics. (pg. 584)

    b. No public education employee or contractor shall use a name to address a

    student other than the name listed on a studentā€™s birth certificate, without the

    written permission of a studentā€™s parents or guardians. (pg. 346)

    c. No public education employee or contractor shall use a pronoun in addressing a

    student that is different from that studentā€™s biological sex without the written

    permission of a studentā€™s parents or guardians. (pg.346)

    d. No public institution may require an education employee or contractor to use a

    pronoun that does not match a personā€™s biological sex if contrary to the

    employeeā€™s or contractorā€™s religious or moral convictions. (pg. 346)

     

    12. Reimplement Trumpā€™s transgender military ban and expel transgender service

    members.

     

    a. Exceptions for individuals who are already predisposed to require medical

    treatment (for example, HIV positive or suffering from gender dysphoria) should

    be removed, and those with gender dysphoria should be expelled from

    military service. (pg. 135)

    b. Reverse policies that allow transgender individuals to serve in the military.

    Gender dysphoria is incompatible with the demands of military service, and the

    use of public monies for transgender surgeries or to facilitate abortion for servicemembers should be ended. (pg. 136)

     

    13. Reverse the FDAā€™s approval of abortion medication.

     

    a. Abortion pills pose the single greatest threat to unborn children in a post-Roe

    world. (pg 457)

    b. [The FDA must] Reverse its approval of chemical abortion drugs because the

    politicized approval process was illegal from the start. (pg. 458)

    c. Implement a policy of transparency about inspections of the abortion pillā€™s

    sponsors, Danco and GenBioPro, as well as facilities that manufacture the pills.

    The FDA should respond to congressional requests and Freedom of Information

    Act (FOIA) requests about inspections, compliance, and post-marketing safety in

    a timely manner. (pg. 456)

    d. Reinstate earlier safety protocols for Mifeprex that were mostly eliminated in

    2016 and apply these protocols to any generic version of mifepristone. (pg. 459)

     

    14. Invoke a 150-year-old defunct law called the Comstock Act to ban the shipment of abortion pills, enacting a de facto national abortion ban

     

    a. Stop promoting or approving mail-order abortions in violation of long-standing

    federal laws that prohibit the mailing and interstate carriage of abortion drugs.

    (pg.458)

    b. Announcing a Campaign to Enforce the Criminal Prohibitions in 18 U.S. Code Ā§Ā§

    1461 and 1462 Against Providers and Distributors of Abortion Pills That Use the

    Mail. Federal law prohibits mailing ā€œ[e]very article, instrument, substance, drug,

    medicine, or thing which is advertised or described in a manner calculated to

    lead another to use or apply it for producing abortion.ā€ (pg. 562)

     

    15. Compel states to report the ā€œreasonā€ for every abortion performed within their

    borders.

     

    a. Because liberal states have now become sanctuaries for abortion tourism, HHS

    should use every available tool, including the cutting of funds, to ensure that

    every state reports exactly how many abortions take place within its borders, at

    what gestational age of the child, for what reason, the motherā€™s state of

    residence, and by what method. (pg.455)

    b. The Ensuring Accurate and Complete Abortion Data Reporting Act of 20239

    would amend title XIX of the Social Security Act and Public Health Service Act to

    improve the CDCā€™s abortion reporting mechanisms by requiring states, as a

    condition of federal Medicaid payments for family planning services, to report

    streamlined variables in a timely manner. (pg. 456)

     

    16. Allow states to ban employers from providing health benefits that cover

    abortion care.

     

    a. Keep anti-life ā€œbenefitsā€ out of benefit plans. Some benefits attorneys and pro-

    choice advocates have argued since the Supreme Courtā€™s Dobbs v. Jackson

    Womenā€™s Health Organization decision6 that the longstanding doctrine of

    Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA)7 preemption should

    block individual statesā€™ efforts to prohibit employers from helping employeesprocure abortions via offering various kinds of coverage under employee-sponsored benefit plans. ERISA should not be allowed to trump statesā€™ ability to protect innocent human life in the womb. Congress and DOL should clarify that ERISA does not preempt statesā€™ power to restrict abortion, surrogacy, or other anti-life ā€œbenefits.ā€ (pg. 585)

    b. Withdraw Medicaid funds for states that require abortion insurance or that

    discriminate in violation of the Weldon Amendment. The Weldon Amendment

    declares that no HHS funding may go to a state or local government that

    discriminates against pro-life health entities or insurers. In blatant violation of this

    law, seven states require abortion coverage in private health insurance plans, and HHS continues to fund those states. (pg. 472)

     

    Weaponizing the Federal Government to Carry Out

    the Christian Nationalist Agenda

     

    Department of Justice

    • While the supervision of litigation is a DOJ responsibility, the department falls under the direct supervision and control of the President of the United States asa component of the executive branch. Thus, and putting aside criminal prosecutions that can warrant different treatment, litigation decisions must bemade consistent with the Presidentā€™s agenda. (pg. 559)
    • Prohibit the FBI from engaging, in general, in activities related to combating the spread of so-called misinformation and disinformation by Americans who are not tied to any plausible criminal activity. (pg. 550)

    Department of Education

    • Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the FederalDepartment of Education should be eliminated. (pg. 319) Thoroughly review the many education-related regulations promulgated by the Biden Administration, as well as the school meals program and the Income Driven student loan program. (pg. 331)
    • Safeguarding civil rights. Enforcement of civil rights should be based on a proper understanding of those laws, rejecting gender ideology and critical race theory.(pg. 322)

    Department of Homeland Security 

    • The Office of the Secretary should recommence proposed regulation put forward under the Trump Administration that would prohibit noncitizens, including all mixed-status families, from living in all federally assisted housing.
    • Congress should mandate and fund additional bed space for alien detainees. ICE should be funded for a significant increase in detention space, raising thedaily available number of beds to 100,000. (pg. 176)
    • Congress should fund ICE for at least 20,000 ERO officers and 5,000 Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA) attorneys. (pg. 176)
    • The incoming Administration should spearhead an immigration legislative agenda focused on creating a merit-based immigration system that rewards high skilled aliens instead of the current system that favors extended familyā€“based and luck-of-the-draw immigration. To that end, the diversity visa lottery should be repealed, chain migration should be ended while focusing on the nuclear family, and the existing employment visa program should be replaced with a system to award visas only to the ā€œbest and brightest.ā€
    • Repeal Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations (pg. 182)

    Other Sources of Information

    2024-05_Peoples-Guide-Pro-2025.pdf (democracyforward.org)