Trump billionaire donor, Tim Dunn, The Heritage Foundation, and many of his former team members have created the playbook for his next term. It’s greatest hits…
Project 2025’s proposals to achieve that goal include:
- Expanding White House review of military promotions to ensure promoted officers aren’t too focused on “climate change” or “manufactured extremism” (that is, domestic right-wing extremism)
- The “Schedule F” plan to reclassify tens of thousands of civil servants as political appointees, so they could be fired and replaced with Trump cronies. (Trump issued this order in late 2020 but left office before it could be implemented, and Biden rescinded it.)
- Reconsidering the traditional separation between the White House and the Justice Department (something that could give the president more direct control over criminal investigations)
- installing a “vast expansion” of political appointees at the DOJ in particular
- Expanding performance-based pay for the civil service (which sounds fine in theory, unless the performance evaluations are politicized)
- Letting political appointees apportion federal funds (currently civil servants do this, and proposals that the government do otherwise have been met with fears of politicization)
- Expanding White House review of military promotions to ensure promoted officers aren’t too focused on “climate change” or “manufactured extremism”
- Education: Eliminate the Department of Education, give every parent a voucher-like option they could use to send their child to private school, zero out federal funding to low-income schools over the next decade, greatly cut “wasteful” school meal programs, and end Biden’s student loan forgiveness programs
- Energy and environment: Deprioritize fighting climate change, repeal Biden’s clean energy subsidies, further unleash oil and natural gas production, roll back various environmental regulations
- Health care: Majorly cut and overhaul Medicaid, roll back the recent law banning surprise medical billing
- Immigration: Deny loan access to students at “schools that provide in-state tuition to illegal aliens,” ban non-citizens from living in federally assisted housing (even if they live with a citizen), reinstate and expand the horseback-mounted Border Patrol
- Revoking FDA approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, which is used in about half of US abortions (“Abortion pills pose the single greatest threat to unborn children in a post-Roe world,” the document states)
- Using an old law known as the Comstock Act to prosecute people who send abortion pills through the mail
- Ending the mandate for insurance to cover the “week-after” contraceptive pill Ella (which the document argues is a “potential abortifacient”)
- Crack down on “abortion tourism” in liberal states by requiring states to report where women seeking abortions live and cutting federal funds if they refuse
- Ending subsidies for stem cell or fetal cell research