Project 2025 Revisited, Part 2: Notable Quotes
As noted in Part 1, I spent time in November reviewing Project 2025's Mandate for Leadership and compiled a summary and quotes for my community. My hope is to share this information now to help make sense of the Trump presidency so far and to help us understand what might be coming in the future.
Many have credulously believed that Donald Trump did not know about Project 2025. What I'm hoping to convey with today's and tomorrow's quotes is that, regardless of what Trump knew or didn't know, we can see in the administration's actions a clear connection to many of the priorities of the Mandate for Leadership. This makes sense because the Trump administration is ideologically aligned with many of the folks and organizations who contributed to Project 2025.
Without further ado, please find below a selection of quotes from the Mandate for Leadership, bold text added by me for emphasis:
Administrative State 1. "When it comes to ensuring that freedom can flourish, nothing is more important than deconstructing the centralized administrative state."
Public Education 1. "The new Administration must end the prior Administration’s abuse of the agency’s payment pause and HEA loan forgiveness programs, including borrower defense to repayment, closed school discharge, and Public Service Loan Forgiveness."
2. "Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated."
Race 1. “Treat the participation in any critical race theory or DEI initiative, without objecting on constitutional or moral grounds, as per se grounds for termination of employment.”
Climate Change 1. “Climate-change research should be disbanded. … The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) should be broken up and downsized. … [The Office of Air and Radiation] … is the source of much of NOAA’s climate alarmism.”
Multiple Topics 1. "The noxious tenets of 'critical race theory' and 'gender ideology' should be excised from curricula in every public school in the country."
2. "The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors. This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion, gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists."
3. "Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered."
4. “The next Administration will face a significant challenge in unwinding policies and procedures that are used to advance radical gender, racial, and equity initiatives under the banner of science. Similarly, the Biden Administration’s climate fanaticism will need a whole-of-government unwinding.”
5. “No public education employee or contractor shall use a name to address a student other than the name listed on a student’s birth certificate, without the written permission of a student’s parents or guardians. No public education employee or contractor shall use a pronoun in addressing a student that is different from that student’s biological sex without the written permission of a student’s parents or guardians. No public institution may require an education employee or contractor to use a pronoun that does not match a person’s biological sex if contrary to the employee’s or contractor’s religious or moral convictions.”
6. “Families comprised of a married mother, father, and their children are the foundation of a well-ordered nation and healthy society. … The male–female dyad is essential to human nature and … every child has a right to a mother and father.”
