Trump denies knowing about Project 2025, his allies’ sweeping plan to transform the US government

[libertybele]

Total U.S. Liabilities (as of Sep 2023)

$128,200,000,000,000 ($128.2 trillion)

Liability per Taxpayer

$986,913 (129.9 MM taxpayers)

Liability per Person

$381,547 (336MM people)

https://www.mainstreeteconomics.org/

What an absolute disaster...and a grave that we keep digging deeper and deeper.

[DB]

I'm told over and over that the only solution is to vote for more of the same...

[American Girl]

Excerpt from the article:
Donald Trump has distanced himself from Project 2025, a massive proposed overhaul of the federal government!

“I know nothing about Project 2025,” Trump posted on his social media website. “I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”

The 922-page plan outlines a dramatic expansion of presidential power and a plan to fire as many as 50,000 government workers to replace them with Trump loyalists. President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign has worked to draw more attention to the agenda, particularly as Biden tries to keep fellow Democrats on board after his disastrous debate.




I wonder if there are any FEC filings for this “company?”

Joe Biden had to buy the URL for Project 2025 to show people that Trump is involved, lol

https://www.rightjournalism.com/breaking-domain-joe-biden-is-sharing-trumpsproject2025-com-was-just-created-on-6-26-2024-by-a-company-registered-in-delaware-deep-investigation-reveals-more-screenshot/

[mountaineer]

FYI

Project 2025
@Prjct2025
MYTHS VS. FACTS ABOUT PROJECT 2025

We are not affiliated with former President Trump. We are a coalition of more than 110 conservative groups advocating policy and personnel recommendations.

1. End no fault divorce: FALSE

Divorce is not mentioned in our policy handbook, Mandate for Leadership.

2. Complete ban on abortions without exceptions: FALSE

Mandate for Leadership calls for the government to comply with laws that prevent federal funding of abortion. It also calls for federal support for alternatives to abortion, including adoption.

3. Ban contraceptives: FALSE

Mandate for Leadership says nothing about banning or restricting contraception.

4. Additional tax breaks for corporations and the 1%: MISLEADING

Mandate for Leadership calls for LOWER taxes for ALL Americans, to stimulate economic growth and put more money in Americans’ pockets.

5. Higher taxes for the working class: FALSE

Mandate for Leadership calls for LOWER taxes for ALL Americans. Individuals spend their money in more productive ways than the government does.

6. Elimination of unions and worker protections: FALSE

Mandate for Leadership presents different ideas about a conservative labor policy. It calls for combatting the excesses of the Deep State’s bloated federal employee unions, which have ensured that federal employees keep their jobs even if they engage in illegal behavior or perform their jobs poorly.

7. Raise the retirement age: FALSE

Raising the retirement age is nowhere advocated in Mandate for Leadership.

8. Cut Social Security: FALSE

Mandate for Leadership does not advocate cutting Social Security.

9. End Affordable Care Act: FALSE

Mandate for Leadership offers policy suggestions to curb the abuses of the Affordable Care Act.

10. Raise prescription drug prices: FALSE

Mandate for Leadership offers proposals to lower drug prices through competition and innovation.

11. Eliminate the Department of Education: TRUE

Mandate for Leadership calls for an end to the Department of Education. Since the Department was created, educational outcomes have not improved, and the American school system has increasingly fallen behind other countries. Giving more control back to state and local governments and expanding school choice would improve education outcomes for all Americans, especially underprivileged communities. Some functions of the Department would be moved to other departments including Labor, Justice, and Commerce.

12. Use public, taxpayer money for private religious schools: TRUE

Americans are able to use taxpayer money to choose where they shop for groceries, attain housing, and obtain higher education. Religious schools often outperform public schools, and families should have the choice to send their children to these schools.

13. Teach Christian religious beliefs in public schools: FALSE

Mandate for Leadership advocates for all educational opportunities, and for parental rights in education.

14. End free and discounted school lunch programs: FALSE

Mandate for Leadership advocates that the Food and Nutrition Service be moved from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Health and Human Services. Mandate condemns the Biden administration’s decision to threaten schools that do not comply with radical transgender policies by taking away their funding for school meals for needy students. Additionally, Mandate supports prioritizing school meal programs for those students who are truly needy, not creating an entitlement for almost all students regardless of family income levels.

15. End civil rights and DEI protections in government: MOSTLY FALSE

Mandate for Leadership calls for respecting the civil rights of all Americans, including those who have been censored by the government or had it weaponized against them. Mandate advocates for the end of divisive, race-based, anti-American propaganda in the federal workforce.

16. Ban African American and gender studies in all levels of education: FALSE

Mandate for Leadership does not mention African American studies or gender studies.

17. Ban books and curriculum about slavery: FALSE

Mandate for Leadership does not advocate for banning books or curriculum about slavery.

18. Ending climate protections: FALSE

Mandate for Leadership advocates policies that will produce economic growth through abundant, affordable energy. Famers, hunters, and fishers know how to protect our environment better than D.C. bureaucrats. The Biden administration’s relentless focus on climate has made America less competitive and wasted crucial taxpayer dollars.

19. Increase Arctic drilling: TRUE

The Arctic is of immense strategic importance to America. Mandate for Leadership advocates a strong pursuit of American interests in the region, through economic freedom, through ensuring free and open shipping lanes, and through the development of the vast energy resources of the Arctic.

20. Deregulate big business and the oil industry: MOSTLY TRUE

America needs energy that is plentiful and affordable. Mandate for Leadership calls for an all-of-the-above energy policy that would promote the development of our domestic energy supply, and for fewer burdensome regulations for ALL businesses.

21. Promote and expedite capital punishment: TRUE

The appropriateness of capital punishment divides Americans, and conservatives, of good will. Mandate for Leadership calls for the enforcement of the federal death penalty where appropriate and applicable, and recommends a future presidential administration pursue the death penalty for the most heinous crimes, including those involving violence and the sexual abuse of children, unless Congress says otherwise through legislation.

22. End marriage equality: FALSE

The legal recognition of same-sex marriage is not discussed in Mandate for Leadership. Mandate calls for the protection of faith-based grant recipients who maintain support for the traditional definition of marriage. Mandate also supports conscience protections for those who do not wish to participate in same-sex marriages.

23. Condemn single mothers while promoting only “traditional families”: FALSE

Mandate suggests that a future HHS Secretary replace the policies of the Biden administration that prioritize LGBTQ+ equality, subsidize single motherhood, disincentivize work, and penalize marriage with policies that instead encourage marriage, work, motherhood, fatherhood, and nuclear families.

24. Defund the FBI and Homeland Security: FALSE

Mandate for Leadership supports de-weaponizing the federal government, including the FBI. Mandate’s chapter on the Department of Homeland Security advocates the legislative creation of a standalone Cabinet-level agency with a focus on the border and immigration, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR), and the Office of Immigration Litigation (OIL). It also recommends that legislation be pursued to move other component parts of DHS to other agencies, including the Department of Transportation, the Department of Defense, the Department of the Treasury, and the FBI.

25. Use military to break up domestic protests: FALSE

The “protests” referenced in Mandate for Leadership are protests in Iran against its anti-American leadership; and protests of parents at school board meetings in opposition to critical race theory and COVID mandates. Both protests are referenced positively. Mandate also protests the FBI’s harassment of protesting parents and condemns the arrest by armed FBI agents of a man who had protested at an abortion clinic a year earlier.

26. Mass deportation of immigrants and incarceration in “camps”: MISLEADING

Mandate supports an orderly and lawful immigration system. It advocates that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of Removal Operations be primarily responsible for enforcing civil immigration regulations, including the removal of those who have violated our immigration laws. It also calls for additional resources to put an end to President Biden’s border crisis and enforce immigration laws.

27. End birthright citizenship: FALSE

There is no mention of ending birthright citizenship in Mandate for Leadership.

28. Ban Muslims from entering the country: FALSE

There is no mention of banning Muslims from entering the United States in Mandate for Leadership.

29. Eliminate federal agencies like the FDA, EPA, NOAA and more: FALSE

Mandate for Leadership’s plan would not eliminate the FDA or the EPA, and NOAA’s functions would be transferred to other agencies, the private sector, and states and territories.

30. Continue to pack the Supreme Court and lower courts with right-wing judges: FALSE

The only people calling for packing the judiciary are those on the Left, who do it every time the Supreme Court or a lower court makes decisions they don’t like.
2:00 PM · Jul 9, 2024

[Right_in_Virginia]

I'm told over and over that the only solution is to vote for more of the same...

Nonsense.

[jafo2010]

...for the next conservative president.

Well, that said, that leaves Trump out.  He is not conservative.  Running on the Republican ticket does not make him conservative, it merely makes him an opportunist that saw a way to win running as a Republican.  Trump is more RINO than straight laced conservative.  Time for folks to realize that.

[DefiantMassRINO]

 

Trump also paid Stormy Daniels $130,000 because he didn't have sex with her.

[Smokin Joe]

I have little problem with firing 50K federal workers (less than 5% of the Federal workforce) and likely 1/10 of the reduction that should happen under serious review of what is done and whether it stands up to Constitutional muster (as a job that even should exist).

The problem I have is replacing them...

Cleaning house might call for some new hires, granted, but firing 50K and hiring 50K isn't progress, it's just picking the flowers off the dandelions.
Eliminate the positions, and they are less likely to grow back.

[PeteS in CA]

Demonizing Project 2025 is currently a primary Dem talking point. Many conservative organizations are participating in it, https://www.project2025.org/about/advisory-board/ , but not the Trump campaign or any other Trump organization. That latter point is worth remembering, as the Dems are going full Straw-Man claiming the Projects proposals are Trump's.

Take any Dem claims about its agenda proposals with an Everest-sized block of salt. The claims are all but certain to be utterly false, grossly misrepresented, or ripped out of context. For reference, here is the Table of Contents page of their policy proposals, https://www.project2025.org/policy/ .

[NavyCanDo]

The RNC writes the Party Platform after much back and forth negotiations and compromise. It doesn't come from a 900 page book sold on Amazon.

[Hoodat]

Looks like they'll have to wait until 2028.  In the meantime, four more years of funding Democrat graft.  Might as well store away that Veto stamp.

[Kamaji]

Interesting that they have no interest in repealing Obamacare, now they just want to tinker around the edges of it.

[Hoodat]

Here is what Trump opposes:

p. 43

In its opening words, Article II of the U.S. Constitution makes it abundantly clear that “[t]he executive power shall be vested in a President of the United
States of America.”  That enormous power is not vested in departments or agencies, in staff or administrative bodies, in nongovernmental organizations or other equities and interests close to the government. The President must set and enforce a plan for the executive branch. Sadly, however, a President today assumes office to find a sprawling federal bureaucracy that all too often is carrying out its own policy plans and preferences—or, worse yet, the policy plans and preferences of a radical, supposedly “woke” faction of the country. 

The modern conservative President’s task is to limit, control, and direct the executive branch on behalf of the American people. This challenge is created and exacerbated by factors like Congress’s decades-long tendency to delegate its lawmaking power to agency bureaucracies, the pervasive notion of expert “independence” that protects so-called expert authorities from scrutiny, the presumed inability to hold career civil servants accountable for their performance, and the increasing reality that many agencies are not only too big and powerful, but also increasingly weaponized against the public and a President who is elected by the people and empowered by the Constitution to govern.

In Federalist No. 47, James Madison warned that “[t]he accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many,
and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”  Regrettably, that wise and cautionary note describes to a significant degree the modern executive branch, which—whether controlled by the bureaucracy or by the President—writes federal policy, enforces that policy, and often adjudicates whether that policy was properly drafted and enforced. The overall situation is constitutionally dire, unsustainably expensive, and in urgent need of repair.
 Nothing less than the survival of self-governance in America is at stake.

The great challenge confronting a conservative President is the existential need for aggressive use of the vast powers of the executive branch to return power — including power currently held by the executive branch—to the American people. Success in meeting that challenge will require a rare combination of boldness and self-denial:  boldness to bend or break the bureaucracy to the presidential will and self-denial to use the bureaucratic machine to send power away from Washington and back to America’s families, faith communities, local governments, and states.

Fortunately, a President who is willing to lead will find in the Executive Office of the President (EOP) the levers necessary to reverse this trend and impose a sound direction for the nation on the federal bureaucracy. The effectiveness of those EOP levers depends on the fundamental premise that it is the President’s agenda that should matter to the departments and agencies that operate under his constitutional authority and that, as a general matter, it is the President’s chosen advisers who have the best sense of the President’s aims and intentions, both with respect to the policies he intends to enact and with respect to the interests that must be secured to govern successfully on behalf of the American people. This chapter focuses on key features of and recommendations for several of the EOP’s important components.

[Bigun]

Here is what Trump opposes:

p. 43

I'm not so sure that is true but I sincerly hope to find out for sure.

[Hoodat]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

I know nothing about Project 2025.  I have no idea who is behind it.

No liberal would.

[libertybele]

I'm not so sure that is true but I sincerly hope to find out for sure.

Regardless, I think that the next 4 years are going to be quite a challenge.

[Bigun]

Regardless, I think that the next 4 years are going to be quite a challenge.

That's a given even if Calvin Coolidge was president again.

[LMAO]

Looks like they'll have to wait until 2028.  In the meantime, four more years of funding Democrat graft.  Might as well store away that Veto stamp.

Especially when both candidates believe in Modern Monetary Theory

Heads we lose. Tails we lose

[deb]

That's a given even if Calvin Coolidge was president again.

If only we could have Coolidge back. Or a Coolidge type. Sigh.

[LMAO]

Give me a Javier Milei type and I’ll vote for them eagerly and proudly

[deb]

Give me a Javier Milei type and I’ll vote for them eagerly and proudly

Are you not convinced that we have the very best our country has currently running for the office? 

[GtHawk]

Here is what Trump opposes:

p. 43

Who wrote that for Trump? Because I would bet dollars to donuts he doesn't understand our government  or the constitution enough to pen it.

[mountaineer]

If only we could have Coolidge back. Or a Coolidge type. Sigh.

Amen.

[banddag]

30. Continue to pack the Supreme Court and lower courts with right-wing judges: FALSE


Conservatives sure are a gullible bunch if they believe this nonsense.

How can anyone  believe this crap? Trump installed three conservative SC judges, brags about it  and said if he gets back in he will continue to do so.

How can anyone believe Trump would install a far left or even a left leaning judge?

[DefiantMassRINO]

RNC / Trump 2024 / Project 2025 = Make America Medieval Again


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2xlQaimsGg