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What is Project 2025?
Cuts to SNAP, Head Start
Cuts to Education, Title 1
Cuts to Parks and Our Public Lands
Cuts to Climate, Environmental & Health Protections
Cuts to Medicaid, Medicare
Cuts to Social Security
Cuts to Veterans
Cuts to Science: CDC, NIH…
Cuts to Worker’s Rights, Consumer Protection
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What is Project 2025?
Project 2025 is an over 900-page roadmap to seize power by expanding presidential power by eliminating all checks, balances, and oversight to radically restructure our government and country into an ultra-conservative vision of the United States.
Project 2025 would make the President a King with absolute power.
Project 2025 was published in 2023 by the Heritage Foundation, an ultra-conservative think tank funded by the Koch brothers, with over 140 former Trump staffers as writers. The Heritage Foundation also wrote a “Mandate for Leadership” with Trumps’ first administration completing 64% of it.
The Senate has confirmed Russell Vought as the White House budget director …hear his plans in his own words.
"At Veterans Affairs facilities in Detroit and Denver, staff reductions have led to canceled health programs and left homeless veterans without their dedicated coordinator to help them find an apartment and line up a deposit. In Alabama, job cuts at the Education Department have slowed efforts to get disabled children access to classrooms. And in California, Yosemite National Park paused new reservations for more than 500 campsites during peak summer months because of staffing uncertainty. An unprecedented effort to shrink the federal labor force is impeding work at government sites across the country and spawning unintended consequences for services Americans rely on."
Project 2025 Cuts to Science: CDC, NIH…
“Last night, scientists began to hear cryptic and foreboding warnings from colleagues: Go to the CDC website, and download your data now. They were all telling one another the same thing: Data on the website were about to disappear, or be altered, to comply with the Trump administration’s ongoing attempt to scrub federal agencies of any mention of gender, DEI, and accessibility. “I was up until 2 a.m.,” Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan who relies on the CDC’s data to track viral outbreaks, told me. She archived whatever she could.”
“One of the programs decimated by the cuts — the Laboratory Leadership Service fellowship — had previously enlisted Ph.D.-trained researchers to pitch in on disease responses for dengue in American Samoa and Puerto Rico, Marburg virus in New York and a new rabies variant in Nebraska, according to three current CDC employees. In some cases, the fellows are needed to develop lab tests in fast-moving situations.”
“With an annual budget of roughly US$47 billion, the NIH dwarfs the rest of the world’s funders of biomedical research. The World RePORT project, which tracks global health-research spending, showed that, in 2022, the NIH spent 25 times more on grants than did the next biggest funder”
“Without NIH, there would be no cancer immunotherapy, no anti-overdose medication, no anti-heart attack or stroke medication, no cutting-edge treatments,” addiction researcher Olivier George at the University of California, San Diego.
“Dangerous pathogens left unsecured at labs across Africa. Halted inspections for mpox, Ebola and other infections at airports and other checkpoints. Millions of unscreened animals shipped across borders.
The Trump administration’s pause on foreign aid has hobbled programs that prevent and snuff out outbreaks around the world, scientists say, leaving people everywhere more vulnerable to threatening viruses and bacteria.
That includes Americans. Outbreaks that begin overseas can travel quickly: The coronavirus may have first appeared in China, for example, but it soon appeared everywhere, including the United States. When polio or dengue appears in this country, cases are usually linked to international travel.”
Project 2025 Cuts to Worker’s Rights, Consumer Protection
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Allows employers to not pay overtime
Undermines worker safety
Weakening child labor protections
Reduces the right to organize and collectively bargain
Makes it easier for employers to discriminate
“The main U.S. agency tasked with overseeing the financial products and services used by everyday Americans — from credit cards to checking accounts to home loans — is the latest target of the Trump administration's effort to remake the federal government.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new leader has shuttered the agency's headquarters and told staffers to stay at home and refrain from doing any work.”
Project 2025 Cuts to Veterans
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“The Veterans Health Administration is America’s largest integrated health care system, providing care at 1,380 health care facilities, including 170 medical centers and 1,193 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity (VHA outpatient clinics), serving 9.1 million enrolled Veterans each year.”
“The Trump administration, with the full backing of the new VA Secretary Doug Collins, is planning to slash 83,000 jobs from the VA back to levels seen in 2019—stripping the very foundation of the care that veterans like me, and millions of others, rely on. This is not just reckless; it is a betrayal of every veteran who served this country.”
“The numbers do not lie. In 2021, 52% of veterans relied on at least one VA benefit or service, and 6.2 million veterans used VA healthcare. And since the passing of the PACT Act in August 2022, nearly 740,000 new veterans have enrolled in VA’s benefits, including over 333,000 from the PACT Act population—veterans of Vietnam, the Gulf War, and the Post-9/11 conflicts. In just over two years since the PACT Act was enacted, the VA has provided critical health care and benefits to millions of veterans and survivors affected by toxic exposure.
In fact, the demand for VA healthcare is not decreasing; It is rising at an unprecedented rate. This is why cutting VA staffing to 2019 levels will be catastrophic.”
“Federal government employees are disproportionately likely to be veterans due to federal government hiring preferences…758,300 civilian federal government workers are veterans, about 25% of federal employees. Since there are about 7.3 million employed veterans, …one out of every 10 employed veterans works for the federal government.”
“Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed from its website information and educational materials about the history of black and female service members. Some of the content removed from the site was on veterans who had received the nation's highest military recognition, the Medal of Honor”
“On the cemetery's website, internal links that directed users to webpages with information about the "Notable Graves" of dozens of black, Hispanic and female veterans were missing on Friday. The pages contained short biographies about veterans such as Gen Colin L Powell, the first black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which is the highest rank in the military after the president. They also told the life stories of members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the country's first black military airmen.”
Project 2025 Cuts to Social Security
“In January 2025, 73 million people—more than 1 in 5 Americans—received benefits from the Social Security Administration (SSA). But the agency that gets those benefits into bank accounts to buy groceries and pay bills is now under attack, putting beneficiaries at risk of dangerous disruptions and delays. Recently, the SSA announced that it would cut approximately 7,000 jobs—a 12 percent reduction in the agency’s staffing. At the same time, the SSA is shutting down six of its 10 regional offices, while posts to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) website spark fears of upcoming field office closures around the country.
These assaults on the SSA threaten Americans’ ability to access the benefits they rely on to get by.”
“The loss of experienced employees who manage Social Security’s fragile and interdependent web of computer systems will likely leave the agency vulnerable to technical outages and, potentially, interrupt the benefit payments that are sent to more than 73 million retirees, people with disabilities and others…”
Project 2025 Cuts to Medicaid, Medicare
The article estimates the average Medicaid/Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) reductions in federal spending and enrollment by congressional district.
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“Medicaid provides health insurance primarily to people with low incomes, although it covers other groups including some older adults, pregnant women and people with disabilities. That includes about 72 million people.
In 2023, Medicaid covered nearly 4 in 10 children, including over 8 in 10 children in poverty, 1 in 6 adults, and almost half of adults in poverty, according to KFF. The program covers more than 1 in 4 adults with disabilities and provides coverage for 41% of all births in the U.S.”
“More than 25 million people throughout the country would lose access to Medicaid if Republicans were to enact a law cutting funding by one-third.”
”With Donald Trump and his biggest campaign donor, the billionaire Elon Musk, already cutting federal health agency funding and Republicans looking at cuts to spending on Medicaid coverage for low-income Americans, doctors and hospitals fear the Medicare payment cut to physicians will certainly lead to closures of physician practices, clinics and hospitals, particularly in rural areas.”
Project 2025 Cuts to SNAP, Head Start
“The budget resolution that the House plans to take up this week directs the House Agriculture Committee to cut programs in its jurisdiction by at least $230 billion through 2034, with these cuts expected to come largely or entirely from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and to be used to help pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest business owners and households.”
“But one thing is clear: lawmakers cannot cut $230 billion — or anything close to that amount — from SNAP without slashing benefits, restricting eligibility, or some combination of both.”
“Regardless of how Republican lawmakers enact a cut of this magnitude, this would slash more than 20 percent from a program that helps more than 40 million people, including 1 in 5 children, afford groceries.”
“The United States Department of Agriculture pulled $1 billion in funding for two programs that help feed school children and the poor, Politico reported, marking the latest cruel cut President Donald Trump and co-President Elon Musk have made in their quest to cut the federal budget.
According to Politico, the USDA cut $660 million from the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program, which gave schools funding to purchase food from local farmers and food producers. “
“The rest of the cuts come from the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program, which according to the USDA provides "funding for state, tribal and territorial governments to purchase foods produced within the state or within 400 miles of the delivery destination to help support local, regional and underserved producers." “
“They are correct. "Mandate for Leadership 2025: The Conservative Promise," a document outlining Project 2025's goals, explicitly recommends eliminating the Head Start program, so we have rated this claim as true. “
“The $750 million in proposed cuts to Head Start and Early Head Start…would have a devastating impact…roughly 80,000 children would lose access to the life changing services of Head Start.”
Project 2025 Cuts to Education, Title 1
“The Trump administration is working toward its promise of eliminating the U.S. Department of Education. On Tuesday evening, the department released a statement saying it would cut nearly 50% of the department's workforce.”
The Department of Education, created in 1979, develops and enforces federal education laws; funds special-education programs; administers financial aid programs; and conducts research on schools, students, and educational issues.
The Department of Education does NOT set or enforce curriculum or determine state education standards.
“Title I supports low-income students and nearly 2 in 3 public schools…..Since its inception, Title I has been a critical program to address chronic funding and opportunity gaps between students experiencing high poverty and their more affluent peers.”
“More than half of the nation’s public schools serve a high concentration of low-income students, with 63 percent of traditional public schools and 62 percent of public charter schools in the 2021-22 school year identifying as Title I-eligible.”
“During the 2023-2024 school year, every state in the country reported a teacher shortage in one or more subject areas.”
“Project 2025 would decimate more than 180,000 teacher positions and negatively affect the academic outcomes of 2.8 million vulnerable students across the country.”
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17 Republican states are suing to declare Section 504 unconstitutional. Approximately 8.5 million public school students across the U.S. have a 504 Plan.
504 plans are common in all 50 states. Like an Individualized Education Program or IEP, a 504 plan puts in place a specialized program and supports to help students with special needs succeed and ensures that they will not be discriminated against in classes or activities.
504 plans address a wide variety of needs, including visual impairment, diabetes, heart disease, epilepsy, depression, and ADHD. Section 504 is meant to guarantee that these students cannot be discriminated against and that they will get the supports they need as they receive a free and appropriate public education.
Project 2025 Cuts to Climate, Environmental & Health Protections
“The agencies that implemented the rules, which limit methane emissions from the oil and gas sector and set efficiency standards for water heaters, expected them to prevent tens of millions of tons of climate pollution in coming decades if left in place.”
“The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration.
Citibank revealed in a court filing Wednesday that it was told to freeze the groups’ bank accounts at the FBI’s request. The reason? The FBI alleges that the groups are involved in “possible criminal violations,” including “conspiracy to defraud the United States.”
The FBI has told Citibank that recipients of EPA climate grants are being considered as potentially liable for fraud. That is, the Trump administration wants to criminalize work on climate science and impacts.
The Appalachian Community Capital Corporation, the Coalition for Green Capital, and the DC Green Bank are just some of the nonprofits being targeted.”
“The Trump administration Wednesday declared an end to more than half a century of protections for the environment and public health, rolling back more than 30 regulations that reduced toxic vehicle and factory fumes; curbed runoff pollution into wetlands and waterways from agriculture, mining and petrochemicals; and limited greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels that are heating the planet and spurring extreme weather disasters.”
"He thinks he's going to be cutting 65 or so percent of people from Environmental," Mr. Trump said at his first Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, referring to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. "You had a lot of people who weren't doing their job. They were just obstructionists.""
“In what he called the “most consequential day of deregulation in American history,” the head of the Environmental Protection Agency announced a series of actions Wednesday to roll back landmark environmental regulations, including rules on pollution from coal-fired power plants, climate change and electric vehicles.
“We are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age,'' EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in an essay in The Wall Street Journal.”
“As former E.P.A. heads under both Republican and Democratic administrations, we fear that such cuts would render the agency incapable of protecting Americans from grave threats in our air, water and land.”
“From his first moments in office, Donald Trump has used the Presidency to stall and gut clean energy and attack climate science across the federal government. These actions have already hurt millions of people in every corner of the country, raising energy costs for working families, cutting good paying jobs, and polluting our communities. This amounts to a federal clean energy ban, all to fill the pockets of the billionaire oil executives that funded his campaign.”
“…states are fighting back. This year, in legislatures and governors’ offices across the country, we have already seen champions announce ambitious new plans and seek to “Trump-proof” climate goals.”
Project 2025 Cuts to Parks and Our Public Lands
“President Trump signed executive orders to increase lumber production across national forests and other public lands in the U.S., but wants to sidestep endangered species protections and other environmental regulations. Wildlife species reliant on undisturbed forests could face significant habitat loss, while expedited environmental reviews may reduce oversight on ecological impacts.”
“Logging can make native forests more flammable and lead to greater fire severity for decades, while ‘mechanical thinning’ can also increase fire risk. The key contributor to increased bushfires and resultant damage is climate change.”
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“People with love in their hearts, wanting to come together and say we need to stop the Trump administration from harming our kids,” says Suzanne Hume, Educational Director and Founder of CleanEarth4Kids.org. “Cutting Social Security, Medicare … We can’t have these cuts.”
“After an afternoon of standing in the rain, protesters lined up outside Springfield's Historic City Hall on Tuesday afternoon to advocate for protecting their freedoms, the environment, futures of the nation's children, Social Security, workers rights and human rights, said Suzanne Hume, co-founder of Stop Project 2025 USA and founder and director of Clean Earth 4 Kids. Hume is a Springfield native.”
“We’re out here today protesting, trying to make America stand up for what is right and decent,” said protester Bryce Lockwood.
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