Project 2025

What is Project 2025

 Project 2025 (also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project) is a program launched in 2022 by the ultraconservative think tank The Heritage Foundation. Heritage’s goal was to build the infrastructure and agenda that would be ready for implementation on day one of a new Republican administration.  So what’s in it?

Each week a Project 2025 is explained and archived here. The initial explanation is started on the home page under the Everything Else section.

Policy of the week explained

Week of September 16, 2024

Continued

On top of lavish benefits for the ultrawealthy, it goes out of its way to punish the middle class, levying a $2,600 tax on families of four making $100k annually and ending student loan forgiveness (and double loan payments for some). Project 2025 also allows for employers to skirt overtime laws for hourly workers and recommends new taxes on employer-provided health insurance for the worker.

And for Americans who are most in need, Project 2025 has a plan too: it includes major cuts or eliminations of essential programs like Social Security, Medicare, and food assistance programs like SNAP.

Week of September 9, 2024

Ending Reproductive Freedom and Gender Equity:

Since Donald Trump successfully killed Roe v. Wade via the Supreme Court in 2022, Project 2025’s authors have been drafting designs for a new Republican administration to be able to effectively outlaw abortion care nationwide. Their playbook calls for not only ending medication abortion, which is the most common method of abortion care in the U.S., but also rescinding federal patient protections for abortion access in emergency situations where the patient’s health or life is at risk. They want to block Planned Parenthood from federal programs like Medicaid and turn programs supporting contraceptive access into religious propaganda machines for abstinence-only-until-marriage.

Project 2025 also calls for rollbacks on Title IX protections in education against sexual harassment, assault, and gender-based discrimination.

Project 2025 policy of the week explained

Project 2025 policy of the week (September 9, 2024)

Ending Reproductive Freedom and Gender Equity: Since Donald Trump successfully killed Roe v. Wade via the Supreme Court in 2022, Project 2025’s authors have been drafting designs for a new Republican administration to be able to effectively outlaw abortion care nationwide. Their playbook calls for not only ending medication abortion, which is the most common method of abortion care in the U.S., but also rescinding federal patient protections for abortion access in emergency situations where the patient’s health or life is at risk. They want to block Planned Parenthood from federal programs like Medicaid and turn programs supporting contraceptive access into religious propaganda machines for abstinence-only-until-marriage.

Project 2025 also calls for rollbacks on Title IX protections in education against sexual harassment, assault, and gender-based discrimination.