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Do you remember how Donald Trump claimed that he’d never even heard of Project 2025? Do you remember how loudly and vehemently he denied the accusations, pretending that they were completely ridiculous and that they were complete fabrications and false attacks?
I do.
I remember writing how we knew Trump’s commitment to Project 2025 because he’d already carried the right-wing’s water once with Project 2017 and its proposals to repeal Obamacare, cut the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program, eliminate student debt forgiveness, cut disaster relief funding, eliminate the Social Security Trust Fund and more while creating new tax cuts for the rich. I wrote how Trump had implemented more than 60% of its recommendations during his first year in office and how we could expect the same with Project 2025.
Well, here we are. It’s just a month into the new Trump administration and he’s already implemented a third of Project 2025.
Trump’s orders to pull out of the Paris Climate Accords, eliminate our green energy and drill in the Alaskan wilderness were all Project 2025 recommendations. His attacks on federal employees are straight out of the Project 2025 playbook. Leaving the World Health Organization and cutting USAID were Project 2025 proposals before they were Trump headlines. Project 2025 argued for using America’s military as an anti-immigration force, and on his first day, Trump signed an executive order to deploy the National Guard on the southern border and suspended the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.
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From attacking diversity programs to ignoring federal judges, Trump’s commitment to the Project 2025 agenda is so complete, he’s even appointed two of its top authors, Russell Vought and Brendan Carr, to run the Office of Management and Budget and the Federal Communications Commission.
So much for “I never read it” and “I don’t know who’s behind it.”
So, what’s next? Well, Project 2025 calls for eliminating FEMA, bypassing Congress, filling the FBI with agents loyal to Trump instead of the Constitution and invoking martial law. That being said, Project 2025 doesn’t have any real strategy to curb inflation, raise wages or lower the cost of groceries. Maybe that explains why the price of eggs keeps going up but Trump hasn’t done anything about it. It’s just not in the script.
Antjuan Seawright is a Democratic political strategist, founder and CEO of Blueprint Strategy LLC and a senior visiting fellow at Third Way. Follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter @antjuansea.
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