On her X feed, Alex Cole, a Yale Law School graduate, summarizes Project 2025, the brainchild of the Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based conservative think tank.
Project 2025 explained by a Yale Law Graduate.pic.twitter.com/Bc1N9uMMpN
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) July 12, 2024
In addition to overhauling US taxes, the 900-plus pages in 30 chapters of the Project 2025 manifesto call for the breakup of the Department of Homeland Security and the elimination of the US Department of Education, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other federal agencies.
It calls for removing all federal funds from schools that issued a mask or vaccine mandate and eliminating the Head Start program, African American studies programs at every level of education, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) groups, same-sex marriage, other constitutionally-protected rights, and other programs. Furthermore, it calls for a federal ban on all abortions, regardless of need, and for the immediate reversal of the rule that allows transgender individuals to serve in the US military.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona participate in a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signing ceremony, Wednesday, May 24, 2023, at the Mary W Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. The NASA and Department of Education MOU is focused on strengthening the collaboration between the two agencies, including efforts that advance STEM education across the nation. (NASA HQ PHOTO/Flickr Creative Commons)Donald Trump has disavowed the Project 2025 manifesto, but he has long-standing ties to some key architects, NBC News reported. But a senior campaign official told Reuters that only policy statements in Agenda 47 should be taken seriously. The former president and presumptive Republican nominee for this year told Politico last year, though, that Project 2025 aligned well with Agenda 47, which is his plan for a second term.
The Republican Party released its party platform for 2024, and adoption is expected at the Republican National Convention next week in Milwaukee. In the preamble, it promises (in all caps) to cut federal funding for “ANY SCHOOL PUSHING CRITICAL RACE THEORY, RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY, AND OTHER INAPPROPRIATE RACIAL, SEXUAL, OR POLITICAL CONTENT” and promises to “KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS.” So while it’s a different document than Project 2025, the content isn’t much different when it comes to K-12 policy.
