Don’t risk dangerous Project 2025

We’re hearing a lot these days about a document popularly known as Project 2025, whose complete title is Mandate for Leadership, the Conservative Promise, Presidential Transition Project 2025 put together by the Heritage Foundation with support from 100 conservative organizations, such as the NRA, Moms for Liberty and the Tea Party Patriots.

So, what’s in this 900-page manifesto with contributions from many Trump allies and former administrative officials? According to Forbes magazine and contributor Jeff Raikes, it is “essentially advocating for the end of our democracy and the economic prosperity it drives.” When we hear the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party excoriating his political opponents as “vermin,” when we hear him promising mass deportation of 15-20 million immigrants, when we hear him in the debate lying about abortion, we should consider that with the 2025 document, he has a blueprint to help him execute his promises.

Now, what makes this “blueprint” unique and dangerous is the plan to implement “Schedule F” which will strip federal civil service employees in policy positions (loosely defined) of their civil service protections and make them “at will” employees, thereby ensuring that the wheels of government will be greased to facilitate the President’s directives. The 2025 Presidential Academy and Training is recruiting individuals, even as you read this, to be ready to go on Day 1 to make sure only Trump loyalists are on the job.

By now, you may have heard the list of abolished departments which include the Department of Education, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Federal Reserve, even NOAH. Project 2025 rolls back protections for LGBTQ Americans, weakens Social Security and Medicaid, stops efforts to lower prescription drug prices … you get the picture. Let’s make sure 2025 is not the blueprint for America.

Dianne McGuire

Naperville