Project 2025 promises to close the Department of Education, ban abortion, revoke civil rights, and much more

If you might be an American and plan to vote on this 12 months’s election, The 2025 Project is a must-read document.

The so-called “playbook” is a presidential transition plan that, in nearly 1,000 pages, details what should occur in the first 180 days of a conservative presidency.

More than simply a fantasy wish list or a set of topics discussed in the media, the project is supported by the influential Heritage Foundation together with more than 100 conservative organizations, partners and scientists, and despite the Trump campaign, it’s led by former Trump administration officials acting independently of the organization.

The Project 2025 group clearly states that it has policies aimed toward changing America as we understand it, and a loyal staff it intends to train and employ to implement the changes. They even founded “Academy of Presidential Administration” to prepare people to start working immediately.

So what are the changes and how far do they go? Here are a number of that jumped off the page:

Closing the Department of Education

The U.S. Department of Education not only distributes financial aid to students, but additionally ensures that schools comply with civil rights laws. Project 2025 goals to redirect education funds to the states and undercut higher education, which it claims has been “hijacked by woke ‘diversicrats’.”

Despite the Department of Education’s roots in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the founders of the 2025 Project call for “protecting civil rights” by “rejecting gender ideology and critical race theory.” Meanwhile, critical race theory is a legal framework, founded by African-American scholar Derrick Bell, that will not be taught in K-12 public schools. Nevertheless, Republican strategists saw it as a useful gizmo to finance culture war concerns over “anti-whiteness.”

Ban on shipping abortion pills, withdrawal of FDA approval for abortion drugs

Project 2025 reasons that now that the U.S. Supreme Court “has held that the Constitution does not contain a right to abortion,” the FDA has an obligation to withdraw its approval of abortion pills.

The bill also wants the FDA to stop approving shipments of abortion pills, calling it a “violation of longstanding federal regulations.” The 2025 Project claims that medical abortion “poses the greatest threat to unborn children in a post-Roe world.” It asks the US Department of Justice to criminalize suppliers and “distributors” of abortion pills, meaning atypical individuals who send abortion pills could go to jail.

There are not any women on the core Project 2025 team, as you possibly can see in the photo of their team below.

Urging the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to prosecute DEI leaders

Project 2025 has its own definition of discrimination – and it sounds similar to the “reverse racism” ideology touted by opponents of racial justice efforts.

“The Biden administration – through the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and other federal entities – has entrenched affirmative discrimination in all aspects of its operations under the guise of ‘equality’.” I’m writing Project 2025 team. They call “equity” efforts “tools of this unlawful discrimination.” The definition of “fairness” is fairness and justice that takes into consideration various circumstances. This is precisely the approach Project 2025 wants to eliminate:

“The Civil Rights Division should spend the first 12 months of its term under the latest administration using the full power of federal prosecutorial resources to investigate and prosecute all state and local governments, institutions of higher education, corporations, and another private employers that engage in discriminatory violations. constitutional and legal requirements,” they write.

This signifies that if Project 2025 succeeds, schools, businesses, and even local cities and states with equity programs needs to be on the lookout for further attacks.

Ending criminal justice reform efforts

The founders of Project 2025 clarify that they consider criminal justice reform is a waste of time, despite efforts to right the wrongs of mass incarceration which have disproportionately targeted Black communities.

“In recent years, federal and state officials have yielded to calls from anti-law enforcement advocates for so-called criminal justice reform,” they write, calling it “ill-advised” and linking it to violent crimes without evidence.

They blame reform, which freed prisoners falsely accused of crimes and in some cases gave them harsher sentences, for “the dismantling of effective federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.”

Crowding out the media and defunding PBS

If you grew up watching PBS for straight news and perhaps watching an episode or two of “Sesame Street,” prepare for a world where this channel is the enemy. The 2025 Project claims that PBS and other government-funded media outlets like NPR are biased against conservatives, pointing to polls that show a majority of the audience is “liberal.” Project 2025 would really like the president to use his budgetary powers to relieve the Public Broadcasting Corporation of having taxpayer support.

The authors of Project 2025 call it “half a billion dollars wasted on leftist opinions every year,” despite the fact that shows like “Antiques Roadshow” and “Mister Rogers” have long been mainstream shows. Criticism it is not latest, and some conservatives have had the ability to cut funding of their sights for many years; nevertheless, this time their plans could also be the priority of an anti-media president like Trump.

More power for the (right-wing) president

Project 2025 is comprehensive in its vision and includes many other motion plans for areas including the Environmental Protection Agency, HUD (Housing and Urban Development), and most significantly, the Executive Office of the President.

In a Project 2025 world, the American president could have more power than ever before, able to rein in critics, eliminate non-political government officials, and hire party-loyal staff.

Many political officials and thought leaders have expressed concern about Project 2025, including Republican Jasmine Crockett of Texas, who stated, “Project 2025 is a playbook for authoritarianism as well as the emergence of the next dictator.” Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., called it a “1,000-page bucket list of extremist politics.”

While there are a lot of conspiracy theories and rumors surrounding Election Day 2024, in the case of Project 2025 its organizers will not be only clear about what they need to do, but additionally exactly how – and with whom – they plan to do it. You can read the full plan yourself on the website Projekt2025.org.