Continuing my review and summarizing of Project 2025, the GOP 2024 platform, and Trump’s Agenda 47.
1) Trump denies knowledge of Project 2025, a radical conservative Christian manifesto, yet many of his present and former advisors wrote the 900 page document which is a blueprint for the new GOP president starting from day one with massive, sweeping actions that will not only paralyze the government but will ensure chaos for years to come. It is the most detailed look at a future Trump presidency. Trump’s name is mentioned 268 times in the document, so it was certainly written with him in mind. Trump instituted 64% of the policy recommendations that were put out in the 2016 conservative mandate, a blueprint for the Trump administration and which was as right-wing and conservative as the current Project 2025.
2) Agenda 47 collects formal policies Trump plans to put into effect, many of which rely on executive orders and significant expansion of his executive powers. In 2023, Trump campaign officials stated that Project 2025 aligns well with Agenda 47.
A) restriction of Chinese ownership of US infrastructure
B) End the “Biden war” on US energy by eliminating every regulation that hampers domestic production, getting out of the Paris Agreement, and giving fast approval to every oil infrastructure project that comes before his administration
C) Baseline tariffs on most foreign goods, revoking Chinese Most Favored Nation trade status
D) Decrease trade deficits
E) Not bailing out failing banks, slashing regulations, and repealing Biden’s tax hikes to reduce inflation
F) The Trump Reciprocal Trade Act will tariff other countries’ imports at the same rate they tariff our exports. NB: The costs of these tariffs will be passed on to consumers and will cause more harm than good
G) Gut Biden’s Green New Deal policies and electric cars initiative, and terminate all emission regulations on cars, fossil fuels, etc
1—Cut federal funding for any school or program teaching critical race theory or gender ideology by removing the radicals who have infiltrated the Dept of Education.
2—Keep men out of women’s sports.
3—Create a new way to certify teachers based on their patriotism and give preferential treatment to schools that abolish teacher tenure, abolish DEI, and adopt direct election of school principals by parents.
4—Pursue federal civil rights cases against schools that engage in “equity” by taxing up to the entire amount of their endowment
5—Restore parental rights to control their child’s education; allow parents to hire and fire principals and teachers.
6—Bring back school prayer NB: This includes reading the Bible but doesn’t include any teachings of other religions
7—Allow teachers to carry concealed weapons at school
8—Immediate expulsion and sentencing to reform school of any student who harms another student or a teacher or use or possession of drugs at school
9—The US government will issue bachelor’s degrees to those who did not finish their degrees by creating a new educational institution aimed at competing with schools already in existence. NB: This is from the man who owes fines from the failure of his own for-profit college.
I) Reinterpret presidential powers so that he has greater control of the government in the White House
(the unitary executive theory).
1—Dismantle the “deep state” and revamp every aspect of the US government. NB: These policies could upset the balance of power between the three branches of the federal government and provoke a constitutional showdown by usurping congressional authority and cutting out any program he doesn’t like or whose proponents have angered him. This is a fascist plan
2—Prevent World War III and end the Russian invasion of Ukraine. NB: The fact that he has buddied up to Putin makes this highly unlikely.
3—Overhaul the entire US defense and intelligence bureaucracies
4—Ask Europe to refund the money we spend to rebuild the stockpiles we sent to Ukraine. NB: Good luck with that
J) Keep Medicare and Social Security intact. NB: Every single congressional Republican—and 43 Senate Republicans—sided with Big Pharma over the American people and blocked an amendment that would cap out-of-pocket insulin costs at $35 for millions of Americans on private insurance. Thus, Big Pharma and the rich get richer at the cost of the health and lives of the poor. In March 2024, the Republican Study committee which represents 100% of House Republican leadership and 80% of their members proposed yet another budget that would cut the following by $4.5 trillion over 1-0 years: Medicare (transition Medicare to a premium support system that would raise premiums for many seniors), Social Security ($1.5 trillion in cuts) , the Affordable Care Act, the Children’s Health Insurance Initiative and increase prescription drugs (removing $35 insulin), energy and housing costs while raising the retirements age plus forcing $5.5. trillion in tax cuts for the very rich.
1—Ban birthright citizenship
2—End welfare for illegal immigants
3—Massive deportation of immigrants
1—Build “Freedom Cities” on undeveloped federal land to lower cost of buying a home
2—Build vertical takeoff and landing vehicles
M) Shatter the left-wing censorship regime
1—Increase investment in police personnel, stop illegal drugs
2—Death penalty for drug dealers and human traffickers
3—Overhaul federal standards on disciplining minors
4—Concealed carry reciprocity
1—Abandon DEI, terminate any offices, staff, and initiatives connected to DEI
2—Focus on anti-white racism rather than discrimination against people of color
N) Transgender and LBGQI+ rights: Terminate all gender affirming care at any age and terminating federal funding for any hospital or healthcare provider that participates in it