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President Trump has already taken several actions that align with Project 2025, a far-right blueprint for Trump’s second term developed by the Heritage Foundation. Among other intiatives, his administration has moved to eliminate DEI programs, reinstate service members dismissed for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, and revive “Schedule F,” a policy making it easier to fire career civil service employees and replace them with pro-Trump loyalists. Trump has also appointed several figures tied to Project 2025, including co-author Russell Vought as his Office of Management and Budget (OMB) nominee.
Watch as Straight Arrow News contributor Jordan Reid revisits Trump’s first term and examines how it laid the groundwork for enacting Project 2025, a playbook she says is Trump’s attempt at consolidating power, undoing progress, and shifting costs onto everyday Americans.
The following is an excerpt from the above video:
And then there’s immigration, because nothing says MAGA like the sheer and undisguised hatred of people who don’t look like you. Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border so that he could build a wall. You know, that really effective wall that Mexico absolutely did not pay for?
Project 2025 takes this approach further, suggesting even stricter immigration reforms. Their motto might as well be “give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, but only if they could pass for a Fox TV host.”
The bottom line: Project 2025 isn’t just Trumpism 2.0, it’s Trumpism on steroids. It’s a playbook for concentrating power in the tiny, greedy hands of a few, dismantling decades of progress, and leaving everyday Americans to foot the bill.
But here’s the thing: We don’t have to accept this. Democracy is messy, and loud, and frequently deeply frustrating, but it works if we make it work. If we want a government that serves all of us – not just the wealthy, the powerful, or the well-connected – then we have to demand it. Fight for it. Vote for it. Midterms are coming up. Stay loud.
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