What you may not know about Project 2025

Russell Vought, head of the Office of Management and Budget, in control of the government’s $6.9 trillion budget, is a key figure behind Project 2025, a radical plan written by the Heritage Foundation.

The project includes 300+ major policy changes aimed at reshaping the U.S. government. Its goal is to dismantle the administrative state and rebuild it in a far-right authoritarian image. It is well on its way to achieving that goal.

Key Policy Objectives of Project 2025

Government and civil rights

•Drastically cut and weaken federal agencies (e.g., EPA, CDC, FDA, Dept. of Education, IRS).

•Roll back civil rights protections, including LGBTQ+ rights and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

•Restrict voting rights by creating barriers to registration.

•End birthright citizenship, defying the 14th Amendment.

•Expand ICE, restrict asylum, and accelerate mass deportations without due process.

Social services and education

•Eliminate or defund Head Start (early education), free school meals, public media

•Slash Social Security Administration staff and raise retirement age.

•Cut Medicaid, undermine Medicare, and push privatization.

•Make it harder to access veterans' benefits, shut down VA hospitals and push veterans toward private health care providers.

Worker and consumer protections

•Cut overtime pay and worker protections.

•Rollback consumer protections.

•End efforts to lower prescription drug costs.

LGBTQ+ and marriage rights

•End marriage equality.

Ideological goals

•Consolidate power for the wealthy, stripping rights and financial security from the working class.

•Replace democracy with oligarchy similar to Russia and Hungary.

Project 2025 is a radical, authoritarian agenda that threatens democratic institutions, civil rights and social services. It is not a plan based on freedom for the working class but for control over the working class.

The agenda is not about building us up but pushing us down. It's up to the people to push back.

Becky Birch,

Marengo