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Project 2025

What is Project 2025?

Project 2025 is a federal policy agenda and blueprint for a radical restructuring of the executive branch authored and published by former (and now current) Trump administration officials in partnership with The Heritage Foundation, a longstanding conservative think tank that opposes abortion and reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, immigrants’ rights, and racial equity.

Project 2025’s largest publication, “Mandate For Leadership,” is a 900-page manual for reorganizing the entire federal government agency by agency to serve a conservative agenda, effectively erasing DECADES of progress for Americans.

Proposals from Project 2025, discussed in detail below, that they claim could be implemented through executive branch action alone — so without new legislation — include:

Below is a complete list of the goals of Project 2025, and how they plan to accomplish their extreme overhaul of our country as we know it. Click a goal to see more below:

Goal: Cut Wages, Create Unsafe Workplaces, and Destabilize Our Economy
Goal: Make It Harder for Americans To Make Ends Meet
Goal: Restrict Reproductive Rights and Access to Health Care
Goal: Enable Discrimination Across Society
Goal: Set Polluters Loose and Undo Climate Action
Goal: Make Education Unaffordable and Unwelcoming
Goal: Undermine Government’s Ability to Deliver for People
Goal: Undermine Business Growth and Innovation
Goal: Target Immigrants, Expand Executive Power

Goal: Cut Wages, Create Unsafe Workplaces, and Destabilize Our Economy:

Project 2025 would enable corporations to cut overtime pay, relax worker safety rules, allow workplace discrimination, and more:

  • Stop people from earning overtime pay.

Project 2025 wants the Department of Labor to make it harder for people to earn overtime pay.

In 2024, the Biden administration issued a policy that will make over four million workers newly eligible to qualify for overtime pay. The U.S. Department of Labor did this by raising the “overtime threshold,” which is the salary ceiling under which salaried workers still qualify automatically for overtime pay if they work more than 40 hours in a week, even though those workers are not paid hourly. Raising the overtime threshold increases the number of workers with guaranteed overtime protections. Currently, the threshold protects non-hourly workers who make up to $43,888 annually, and it’s set to rise again in 2025 to apply to people making up to $58,656.

Project 2025 doesn’t want to raise this threshold. Instead, Project 2025 proposes lowering the threshold and taking away overtime eligibility for millions of workers. This would leave at least four million working people in industries that pay annually but still at lower wages stuck working long hours without overtime pay — everything from hospitality to manufacturing, administrative roles, and more.

From page 592 of the Mandate of Leadership.

  • Cut funding for local job-creating programs.

Project 2025 proposes to destroy a program that plays a pivotal role in facilitating transformative economic growth for local economies.

The Economic Development Administration (EDA) was responsible for investing billions of ARP dollars into transformative infrastructure projects across the nation. According to their 2022 report, these investments resulted in 220,000 jobs and generated nearly $20 billion in private investment.

Project 2025 proposes that EDA grants “should be consolidated with other programs and/or eliminated,” which would undermine the ability of the federal government to invest in communities across the nation — with effects that could devastate working people, small businesses, and the overall health of our economy.

From page 664 of the Mandate for Leadership.

  • Manipulate data that businesses rely on to keep our economy functioning. 

By consolidating the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Census Bureau, and Bureau of Labor Statistics, Project 2025 would kneecap the data-collection capacities of these important agencies — with effects felt by working people across the nation.

Data compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is intentionally independent from partisan interests and is frequently relied on by the public, employers, researchers, and government organizations. According to BLS, they “measure employment, compensation, worker safety, productivity, and price movements. This information is used by jobseekers, workers, business leaders, and others to help them make sound decisions at work and at home.”

Project 2025, however, wants to consolidate the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and Census Bureau with BLS into one agency. While formal reorganization requires explicit delegation from Congress to go through, the Trump administration made an attempt in 2018 to bypass Congress and use other executive powers to do so. If an extremist were to occupy the executive branch again, Project 2025 would want them to go even further.

Politicizing BLS and reducing the data collection capacity of the agency by consolidating it into the Census Bureau would make it harder to know how our economy is doing, whether families’ paychecks are growing, and what steps we may need to take to make sure small businesses are thriving and people have enough in their bank accounts to make ends meet.

  • Weaken child labor protections.

Project 2025 would amend hazard regulations to allow employers to put young people in unsafe working conditions.

The authors of Project 2025 think that young people should be able to work in “inherently dangerous jobs,” in roles that are currently not permitted due to significant safety concerns that have long been established and enforced by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).

Project 2025 would change DOL policies and allow America’s youth to work these jobs, meaning young people entering the labor force out of economic necessity could be subjected to more dangerous work because they need the income more than others — and cannot access a safer job or get paid as well.

From page 595 of the Mandate for Leadership:

Goal: Make It Harder for Americans To Make Ends Meet

A strong democracy is one where people have the resources they need to thrive, not worry about how they will make ends meet. Project 2025 proposals would only make daily life harder for people – with fewer people able to access food assistance and affordable early education, less support for veterans with disabilities, and cuts to support for farmers.

  • Restrict access to food assistance

Project 2025 would make it harder for people to access food assistance by adding ineffective requirements and reevaluating important programs.

According to research from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), 86% of all Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits go to households that include a child, elderly person, or person with disabilities — and ~92% of all SNAP benefits go to households with income at or below the federal poverty line.

The Thrifty Food Plan plays an important role in ensuring recipients of food assistance are able to access food that composes a balanced and nutritious diet. In tandem, the Biden administration has increased food assistance outlays to account for increased costs associated with more nutritious foods.

Project 2025 wants to reverse course and reimpose ineffective work requirements — which recent studies have shown do not actually increase employment but do still drive down the number of people who use food assistance — onto SNAP and reevaluate the Thrifty Food Plan.

From pages 299-300 of the Mandate for Leadership.

  • Eliminate the Head Start program.

Project 2025 would destroy a program that is critical to uplifting children across the nation from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.

Head Start is a critical program that helps over one million children across the nation become ready for school by providing them with mental, emotional, and social support programming. This program provides targeted assistance to low-income children as an important method to bridge inequities and ensure that all children receive a solid foundation as they embark on their educational journey.

Project 2025 proposes to eliminate the program. Without Head Start, families who are already struggling financially could experience even greater economic burdens as they would have to spend more on childcare and education.

From page 482 of the Mandate for Leadership.

  • Limit which disabilities qualify veterans for benefits.

The authors of Project 2025 think that too many veterans qualify for disability benefits.

Disability benefits are often critical lifelines for veterans who became disabled as a result of their military service — and can be the difference between a veteran being able to put food on the table or not.

Project 2025 proposes to have the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs cut costs by having fewer health conditions qualify veterans for disability benefits — a proposal could greatly restrict disabled veterans’ access to life-sustaining benefits.

From pages 649 – 650 of the Mandate for Leadership.

  • Remove safety nets for farmers.

Project 2025 thinks that farmers are receiving too much assistance.

The people who put food on our tables and ensure our communities get fed are often subject to the whims of unpredictable weather patterns and market conditions. This means that while some years a farmer may be doing great, the next they could be on the brink of economic failure. That’s where safety nets come in.

Project 2025 wants to restrict safety nets for farmers to ‘unusual situations’ — even though we know that the difficult conditions farmers experience are not unusual but common. A restriction of assistance to farmers would disparately impact low-income farmers and those without extensive assets to fall back on when things go awry.

From page 297 of the Mandate for Leadership.

  • Eliminate funding for key public transportation projects.

Despite its transformational investments in communities across the U.S., the Capital Investment Grants (CIG) program is a Project 2025 target for elimination.

The CIG program plays an important role in awarding federal grants to local communities in order to fund infrastructure projects. After the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law was passed in 2021, CIG was responsible for awarding billions of dollars for key public transportation projects across the country.

Project 2025 wants to eliminate CIG, which could make it much harder for Americans without cars to get to work and travel around town — to work or just to be with family and friends.

From page 635 of the Mandate for Leadership.

Goal: Restrict Reproductive Rights and Access to Health Care

Despite the majority of Americans supporting comprehensive health care and reproductive freedom, Project 2025 would prefer a far different reality. Their attacks would undermine Medicare, keep prescription drug prices high, and restrict access to reproductive care.

  • Keep the cost of lifesaving medication too high.

Project 2025 would undo Medicare’s new ability to negotiate lower prescription prices for seniors.

Medicare’s new ability to negotiate lower prescription drug prices for seniors, established through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), will be transformative for millions of seniors in the United States.

According to the Center for American Progress, these negotiations are targeting some of the most expensive drugs frequently used by seniors, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in drug costs each year. These negotiations are also critical for advancing health equity, given that many of the prescriptions targeted by the negotiations treat conditions disparately experienced by people who have historically experienced marginalization because of their race or gender.

While Project 2025’s plan is to specifically instruct Congress to repeal this part of the IRA, they could also easily advise the Department of Justice (DOJ) to stop defending Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices in courts, where the program currently faces numerous challenges.

Project 2025’s attacks on Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices would negatively impact millions of  elderly Americans, particularly elderly people of color and those with low incomes.

From page 465 of the Mandate for Leadership.

  • End medication abortion use, or make it incredibly difficult to access.

Project 2025 would revoke approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), criminalize mailing medication abortion, or even enlist the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of their anti-abortion efforts.

Over two decades of medical practice show that mifepristone — medication abortion — is safe and effective. In fact, just last year, nearly two-thirds of all pregnant people relied on medication abortion for their abortion care.  This is one of the last lifelines for millions of pregnant people across the United States, as many state governments are ramping up attacks.

The anti-abortion extremists behind Project 2025, not content with merely overturning Roe v. Wade, want to attack access to medication abortion nationwide by any means necessary. 

a. Project 2025 would weaponize the long-dormant Comstock Act to try and make the delivery of medication abortion by mail illegal.

Originally passed in the 19th century to restrict the types of things that could be mailed, the Comstock Act is, today, in District Court Judge Robert Chambers’ own words: a “widely abrogated 19th century statute.”

Despite the DOJ, the courts, and Congress already making clear that the Comstock Act does not apply to legal abortion care, Project 2025 plans to weaponize the DOJ and resurrect this Act to ban nationwide medication abortion access.

From page 562 of the Mandate for Leadership:

b. Project 2025 would have the FDA reverse approval of this safe and effective medication. 

Reversing federal approval of medication abortion could deprive people of essential health care, even in states where abortion remains legal. In states where abortion is banned or restricted, this would further subject people to the whims of state legislatures, many of which have actively pushed or enacted abortion restrictions since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

From page 458 of the Mandate for Leadership:

c. Project 2025 would further undermine medication abortion by mail by reimposing unnecessary and burdensome requirements that mifepristone be dispensed in person and by a doctor. 

Post-Dobbs, the FDA has played an important role by allowing the distribution of mifepristone by mail and at certain pharmacies. This has allowed increased access to care, given that not everyone has the privilege of convenient in-person doctor access. If these plans were implemented, it will become harder for everyone to access abortion care, particularly low-income pregnant people and those in rural communities.

From page 459 of the Mandate for Leadership:

d. If all else fails, Project 2025 would turn to the EPA to apply restrictive regulations to medication abortion. 

Project 2025 wants an anti-democratic president to direct the EPA to classify medication abortion as containing ‘forever chemicals’ — which are subject to stricter regulations. If the EPA were to classify medication abortion as a “forever chemical,” it would stifle the approval and distribution of medication abortion.

From Politico’s ‘Anti-abortion forces plan for a Trump return’:

  • Push people towards private Medicare plans that worsen health outcomes.

Under the guise of allowing greater choice, Project 2025 would push policies that favor private, worse-performing alternatives to Medicare.

While many of Project 2025’s plans for Medicare require congressional action, they also encourage a future administration to use all possible levers, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), to alter this critical program however they can.

Several of their proposals would push people towards private Medicare alternatives, which are not real alternatives at all — with reports showing that “Medicare Advantage plans threaten rural hospitals and patients” and misled people into signing up for them. While Project 2025 may pitch these Medicare ‘reforms’ as encouraging consumer choice, in reality they will leave seniors worse off across the country — putting the health of many of the 33 million people enrolled in traditional Medicare at risk.

From page 463 of the Mandate for Leadership:

  • Make it easier for extremists to access personal information about patients’ reproductive care.

Project 2025 would remove protections the Biden administration put in place post-‘Dobbs’ to protect the personal information of people who receive reproductive care.

In the immediate aftermath of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the Biden administration issued HIPAA guidance  to “ensure doctors and other medical providers and health plans know that, with limited exceptions, they are not required – and in many cases, are not permitted – to disclose patients’ private information, including to law enforcement.” The administration later finalized a rule to shield the medical records of patients from criminal investigations if they cross state lines to seek an abortion where it is legal.

Even as extremists in Texas actively try to use the courts to access information about people receiving abortions out of state, Project 2025 claims that the Biden administration’s privacy guidance is “fear mongering” and would have a future administration withdraw it. As more states move to pass increasingly severe efforts to criminalize abortion, this would put medical providers and all pregnant people at increased risk.

From page 497 of the Mandate for Leadership:

Goal: Enable Discrimination Across Society

Threatened by decades of progress in advancing civil rights and equality for all, the authors of Project 2025 want to create a country that allows for more discrimination where we live, study, work, and play — and roll back hard-fought victories by our movements for progress.

  • Embolden racial discrimination in everything from housing to education to employment.

Project 2025 proposes that the president should remove a key tool that the federal government uses to enforce civil rights protections.

Project 2025 proposes that the federal government stop the long-standing use of “disparate impact” in assessing discrimination by ending its use in discrimination cases and even bringing lawsuits that challenge the standard’s constitutionality. 

The disparate impact standard has long been used in determining discrimination, under Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. It is important for evaluating when ‘facially neutral’ programs have disparate impacts on certain groups of people. The Civil Rights Division of the DOJ determines disparate impact as, “does the adverse effect of the policy or practice fall disproportionately on a race, color, or national origin group?”

This standard provides an important remedy for DOJ and others to bring civil rights cases when groups of people have their civil rights violated in areas such as employment discrimination and fair housing, so discontinuing its use will make it harder for the federal government to enforce civil rights protections in everything from housing to education to employment.

Disparate impact standards have long been ruled constitutional by the United States Supreme Court, so Project 2025’s attempts are baseless.

From page 583 of the Mandate for Leadership, as well as page 72:

  • Make it harder for historically under-resourced communities to access Medicaid, Head Start, and other government programs.

Population counts can be essential to groups receiving appropriations and resources from the federal government like Medicaid, Head Start, community mental health programs, and much more — so Project 2025’s plans to undercount or undermine the accuracy of these counts would hurt communities that have been economically marginalized.

The special interests behind Project 2025 want to reverse the longstanding body of work by civil rights activists who have encouraged the federal government to collect more sophisticated data when it comes to racial and ethnic groups, which has helped ensure communities that have been historically under-resourced because of their racial demographics receive proper allocations of resources.

As recently as March 2024, the Biden administration issued a revision to Statistical Directive No.15, which governs “standards for maintaining, collecting, and presenting federal data on race and ethnicity.” The revision is for more accurate and useful race and ethnicity data collection across various agencies of the U.S. federal government.

Project 2025 would advise a future administration to hamstring these revisions by instructing the White House Office of Management and Budget to reverse them and ensure that other federal agencies are not aiding in the collection of more accurate data. This would leave historically underrepresented communities at a disadvantage when it comes to accessing critical programs we rely on every day — from Medicaid to Head Start.

From page 680 of the Mandate for Leadership:

  • Undermine gender equity across the government.

Project 2025 would eliminate the White House Gender Policy Council, which is key to promoting contraception access, gender-based violence prevention, and women’s health equity.

Under the Biden administration, the White House Gender Policy Council has led efforts to increase access to contraception, published the National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence,  and begun groundbreaking research into how women’s health is studied across the country. Project 2025 would immediately disband the Council and prioritize coordinating efforts that push for “promoting life” and emphasize a narrow vision of what defines a “family.”

From page 62 of the Mandate for Leadership.

  • Allow more discrimination against LGBTQ+ youth in adoption and foster care agencies.

Project 2025 would make it easier for state and child welfare agencies — which are charged by the public to provide appropriate care for children — to cite religious exemptions as a way to promote bigotry.

In 2022, more than 368,000 children were enrolled in foster care in the U.S. Project 2025 would instruct the Department of Health and Human Services to repeal a 2016 regulation that provides additional protections for foster youth, related to sexual orientation and gender identity.

Enabling adoption and foster care agencies to subject vulnerable children to the whims of extreme religious beliefs would be detrimental to the physical, mental, and emotional health of fostered/adopted youth, especially LGBTQ+ youth, who are already dealing with intense adversities.

From page 477 of the Mandate for Leadership.

  • Put Black communities and others that have historically borne the brunt of health impacts from pollution and other environmental harms at increased risk.

Project 2025 proposes to eliminate the EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights.

EPA’s newly-created Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights is the agency’s dedicated office for ensuring that environmental and public health policies are crafted and implemented in ways that ensure no communities are left behind or disproportionately harmed.

Eliminating this office would put the communities that have historically borne the brunt of harms from pollution, climate change, and other hazards — which are too often Black and brown communities — at increased risk.

From page 421 of the Mandate for Leadership.

  • Enable discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

By misinterpreting Supreme Court precedent and allowing more religious exemptions, Project 2025 would roll back protections against discrimination against LGBTQ+ people and others in the workplace.

LGBTQ+ Americans have had to fight for protections under the law and in recent years we have witnessed important gains, including the Supreme Court’s confirmation of federal protections in the workplace, which logically extend to other areas like health care and schools. Yet, Project 2025 wants to reverse this progress.

Project 2025 plans to restrict the application of a critical 2020 Supreme Court case called Bostock v. Clayton County that assures workplace protections for LGBTQ+ people through making clear that discrimination against LGBTQ+ people is a form of sex discrimination prohibited by our federal civil rights laws. Project 2025 would try to enable greater workplace discrimination through allowing employers to impose their religious or moral beliefs on their employees.

From pages 584 and 586 of the Mandate for Leadership.

Additionally, the Biden administration has helped to ensure protections from gender identity discrimination across many aspects of our lives, including “health care, housing, education, credit and lending services, and community safety programs.”

Project 2025, however, would roll back and severely limit those protections and leave already-vulnerable people at increased risk for discrimination when trying to rent an apartment, go to school, and more.

From page 584 of the Mandate for Leadership:

Goal: Set Polluters Loose and Undo Climate Action

We’ve waited decades for meaningful and robust federal action to combat climate change and protect people from the harms of pollution. Project 2025 couldn’t care less about these threats — and now they want to destroy our hard-fought gains.

  • Make our air dirtier and worsen climate change

Project 2025 would make it even harder for the EPA to take action against climate change by attacking the “Endangerment Finding.”

Much of what the EPA does is tied to the Endangerment Finding, which according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) “requires the EPA to take action under the Clean Air Act to curb emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and four other heat-trapping air pollutants from vehicles, power plants, and other industries.”

Project 2025, however, wants to establish a system to ‘update’ the 2009 Endangerment Finding. According to NRDC, ‘updating’ the Endangerment Finding means restricting the federal government’s mandate to combat climate change in order to advance the public health and welfare of the American people and our lands.

If Project 2025 were successful in getting the federal government to ‘update’ the Endangerment Finding, it could become much harder for the EPA, under the Clean Air Act, to take measures to combat greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, and other harmful effects of climate change.

From page 425 of the Mandate for Leadership.

  • Cut off weather, ocean, and climate data by disbanding NOAA

Project 2025 would disband the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which provides critical weather data and insightful scientific research.

The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) plays a critical role in helping us understand the effects of human behavior on the world’s oceans and atmosphere. NOAA issues “daily weather forecasts,” “severe storm warnings,” and more. It also monitors the climate, manages fisheries, restores coastal environments, and supports marine commerce. According to NOAA, the agency’s “products and services support economic vitality and affect more than one-third of America’s gross domestic product.”

Additionally, NOAA’s reports have made important discoveries about the effects of climate change. NOAA’s expertise is frequently relied on by other federal agencies to “understand how they can respond to and adapt to climate change.”

The proposal to disband NOAA would leave federal agencies unequipped to combat climate change, not to mention deprive scientists, businesses, and the public of key data.

From page 664 of the Mandate for Leadership:

  • Transfer environmental funding away from mission-based entities to state regulators who, in many cases, do not support sustainable policies

Project 2025 seeks to undo progress made through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) by any means necessary.

The IRA creates ambitious and expansive investment in climate action and infrastructure development, and is a top target of Project 2025. Even without new legislation, Project 2025 advocates to shift climate-related IRA funds away from mission-based organizations with subject matter expertise and toward state regulatory entities. This would, in our estimation, allow state leaders not committed to climate sustainability (or those who deny climate change altogether) to misuse funds in a way that would set back climate action.

From page 424 of the Mandate for Leadership.

  • Expand offshore oil and natural gas drilling on public lands and waters

Project 2025 would push the Department of the Interior to allow oil and natural gas lease sales “to the maximum extent permitted.”

The groups behind the Mandate for Leadership want to “conduct offshore oil and natural gas lease sales to the maximum extent permitted.”

This section of the Mandate for Leadership was written by William Perry Pendley, a former Trump administration official who had to recuse himself from dozens of matters before the Bureau of Land Management while he was leading it, due to flagrant conflicts of interest as the former president of a special interest organization that called for the widespread transfer of federal public lands to private holders. Not only that, Pendley has referred to climate science as ‘junk science’ and likened the existence of climate change to unicorns.

This proposal would allow fossil fuel companies to drill on more public lands and waters, undoing progress made by the current administration to decrease this harmful practice.

From page 523 of the Mandate for Leadership:

Goal: Make Education Unaffordable and Unwelcoming

Our public schools are foundational to our democracy. When special interests undermine public schools, they undermine the ability of students from all backgrounds to learn, feel safe in their community, and develop skills and knowledge that enable students to thrive. If Project 2025 has their way, our public schools could be stripped of funding, protections for students, and high-quality curricula.

  • Cut federal loan programs that help parents of college students, graduate students, and immigrants afford higher education

Project 2025 would roll back federal student loan programs that are critical to ensuring higher education is not reserved for only the wealthy and well-connected.

As the cost of higher education soars in the country, accessible and stable student loans are a critical way to ensure that people from all backgrounds can access higher education.

The special interests behind Project 2025 want to kneecap the federal government’s provision of student loans — taking away the ability of parents of college students to take out Parent PLUS loans, graduate students to take out Graduate PLUS loans, and undocumented immigrants to take out federal loans entirely. This would devastate the futures of millions of college students.

They would also deny loan access to students at schools that provide in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants. That means students in 25 states and Washington D.C. will not be able to access student loans.

From pages 167 and 354 of the Mandate for Leadership.

  • Make public schools even more dangerous for LGBTQ+ students

Project 2025 would have the Secretary of Education remove a host of protections for LGBTQ+ students in schools.

Public schools are already dangerous for LGBTQ+ students across the nation, especially LGBTQ+ students of color. Project 2025 would make matters even worse by directing a future Secretary of Education to rescind the Biden administration’s expanded Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students, and reinstate the regressive rules previously imposed by the Trump administration. Project 2025 emphasizes that any definition of ‘sex’ under Title IX should mean only biological sex assigned at birth.

These actions threaten to put transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming students at risk, particularly when their gender identity doesn’t correspond with their sex assigned at birth.

From pages 333 and 334 of the Mandate for Leadership:

  • Push ideology onto funding for international business programs

Project 2025 wants to dictate what students learn in higher education by disproportionately funding programs that push an ideological agenda that they agree with.

In trying to dictate what people can and cannot learn, the special interest authors behind Project 2025 want to direct funding to international business programs that teach their preferred subjects, with nearly half (at minimum) of Department of Education funding going to these programs. These programs are geared towards providing students a better understanding of markets across the world, in all different forms.

From page 356 of the Mandate for Leadership.

  • Make it easier for charter schools to discriminate against LGBTQ+ students

Project 2025 would loosen data collection requirements for charter schools, undoing recent progress made by the Biden administration which has ensured that data collection better includes transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming students.

Data collection that better includes people across gender identities and sexual orientations is important for ensuring LGBTQ+ students’ civil rights are protected.

During the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has required all charter schools to enhance the accuracy of student demographic data collection by requiring that schools provide  “nonbinary” as an option for self-selection.

Additionally, in 2021 OCR instructed charter schools to retire collection of data that presents purely binary depictions of the composition of school sports teams — meaning that data demographics of these teams were relegated to strictly male and female — at the exclusion of nonbinary and gender nonconforming students.

Project 2025 would advise the Department of Education to rescind these changes and issue a new Civil Rights Data Collection instructive that “will collect data directly relevant to OCR’s [authority].” In other words, that would mean only the data that Project 2025’s authors think are valid — which excludes LGBTQ+ students. Without this data, it will be harder to know where LGBTQ+ students are experiencing discrimination, allowing it to fester and harm people across the country.

From page 332 of the Mandate for Leadership:

Goal: Undermine Government’s Ability to Deliver for People

Civil servants are federal employees who work and live in all 50 states — the more than 2 million people who keep our air clean, water safe, consumers protected, and mail delivered. Attacks on the nation’s civil service are attacks on the government’s ability to work for the people.

  • Replace non-partisan federal employees with partisan loyalists

Project 2025 would have a future president reissue the Trump administration’s Schedule F executive order to make it easier to fire federal employees.

Civil servants deliver our mail, keep our air and water clean, and protect consumers from abuse.

President Trump’s Executive Order 13957 (Schedule F) attempted to remove critical protections for millions of these federal employees so it would be easier for him and his cronies to fire them. If Schedule F were to be reinstated, these functions could be in the hands of partisan loyalists instead of qualified experts.

Firing civil servants at will simply because they’re not hyperpartisan or extreme enough would be a disservice to the millions of Americans who depend on federal workers and the services they deliver every day.

Democracy Forward submitted a letter on behalf of 27 organizations in support of the Biden administration’s final rule, in addition to other supportive comments, that proactively creates additional protections for the nation’s civil service — and provides an important safeguard against a potential anti-democratic administration.

From pages 80 and 81 of the Mandate for Leadership:

  • Force career experts out of government by relocating federal agencies

While the vast majority of civil servants already live and work outside of Washington, D.C., Project 2025 still proposes to relocate D.C.-based offices in an effort to box out long-serving, nonpartisan experts.

Of the 2.2 million federal employees, most already do not work in Washington, D.C. Still, we know that many of our nation’s foremost experts in their respective fields are situated in Washington, D.C., serving the American people every day at federal agencies.

In 2019, the Trump administration relocated the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to Colorado, resulting in 77% of the bureau’s employees resigning from their positions.

If federal agencies are relocated without thoughtful consideration and public input, critical agencies could lose major sects of their labor force, limiting the ability of the federal government to deliver for the people it is meant to serve.

From page 535 of the Mandate for Leadership, as well as page 524:

  • Administer ideologically biased or discriminatory tests for federal workers

Project 2025 would issue problematic civil service tests for prospective federal employees.

The special interests behind Project 2025 want to create their own pipeline for important roles within our federal government, and they have already created a personnel database for those who would like to be considered for positions during a future administration. Registration for this database includes a questionnaire which evaluates candidates through ideologically biased questions.

They would also utilize legislative or regulatory processes — including through the Office of Personnel Management — to reinstate the usage of general intelligence tests, which have not been in use since the Carter administration. At the time, civil rights groups contended that the general intelligence exam (the Professional and Administration Career Exam, or PACE) used to hire for certain agency positions was discriminatory. After a class action lawsuit alleging employment discrimination led to a consent decree, Carter administration officials abolished the use of the exam for hiring.

Judging prospective candidates for federal employment in ideological or discriminatory ways is a dangerous way to govern. People across the U.S. depend on federal employees every day, and replacing experts with partisan loyalists would be a tremendous disservice.

From page xiv of the Mandate for Leadership:

  • Meddle with national security by altering security clearances

Project 2025 would remove civil servants’ security clearances and politicize the granting of clearances.

Security clearances are typically revoked according to a formal process that does provide some due process rights for those whose clearances are revoked. Project 2025, however, would encourage a future administration to “remove IC employees” under vague criteria that risk increased politicization.

In addition to revoking clearances, Project 2025 would empower the Director of National Intelligence and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency to expedite the issuance of security clearances to those deemed necessary to meet the administration’s “mission needs.”

Expediting the issuance of security clearances paves the way for more unqualified and inept leaders to be charged with our nation’s most sensitive national security matters. Take Jared Kushner: when two national expert security specialists refused to issue him a clearance (due to concerns of foreign influence over him), the Trump administration overruled their expertise and gave him one anyway.

From page 213 of the Mandate for Leadership:

Goal: Undermine Business Growth and Innovation

Project 2025 poses an extreme threat to the strength and stability of the American workforce and the American economy. By risking the health of American businesses and our workforce, Project 2025 threatens all of us who rely on a thriving, robust economy – including to protect our retirement investments, our children’s college funds, and to afford the cost of groceries.

That’s not all. Project 2025 also attacks the core tenets of our democracy. The backsliding of democracy has harmful consequences for people and communities, but it’s also bad for business. Globally, there is a strong correlation between economies that support human rights and democracy and conditions that are good for businesses to innovate, thrive, and flourish.

Simply put, democracy is the most important economic issue of them all – and Project 2025 is going after that, too.

  • Deny opportunities for qualified workers

Project 2025 would limit immigration into the U.S., leaving critical sectors like farming and construction without enough workers.

The first Trump administration imposed highly restrictive immigration policies – but Project 2025 wants to go even further. It proposes suspending or limiting who is eligible for H-2A and H-2B temporary worker visas, which are heavily relied on to fill jobs in the agricultural, construction, hospitality, and forestry sectors.

Project 2025 also seeks to terminate the legal status of 500,000 Dreamers. Without legal status, Dreamers will be unable to fill critical positions in the workforce. And Project 2025 also recommends drastically expanding a process called expedited removal, which allows low-level immigration officers to remove certain people from the U.S., sometimes without a hearing. That would shrink our workforce even further at a time when many industries are already struggling to hire.

From pages 138, 142, 145, and 611 of the Mandate for Leadership.

  • Weaken innovation and the American workforce by gutting public education

A strong and qualified workforce depends on access to quality education. High quality education breeds business innovation and growth. Project 2025 would erode public education and diminish educational opportunity.

Studies prove public education has a range of social and economic benefits. Project 2025 seeks to undermine access to quality education in the United States in significant ways. It would eliminate Title I, the $18 billion federal fund that supports schools with high populations of students coming from low-income backgrounds. 

Project 2025 also advocates for eliminating the Department of Education, private models of education (through vouchers), and loosening accountability for federal funding for special education.

From pages 319 – 360 of the Mandate for Leadership.

  • Make it harder for businesses to attract and maintain a diverse workforce

Greater diversity and inclusion in the workforce is good for business. So are anti-discrimination protections. Project 2025 will hinder businesses’ ability to seek out a diverse workforce.

Project 2025 takes issue with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives across the board – including in the boardroom and in the break room. It proposes ending the collection of data on discrimination by race and gender, making it harder to find ongoing patterns of prejudice. It would strip the words “diversity, equity, and inclusion” from every federal regulation, policy, and program. This also includes government contracts and grants, meaning the businesses the government works with to carry out its services would not need to represent the communities they serve. 

Project 2025 would also dismantle federal government DEI offices. And it wants to enable businesses to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity for transgender and gender non-conforming people. Additionally, it recommends treating past participation in critical race theory or DEI initiatives as grounds for termination for federal employees.

Project 2025 would allow the next Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute all state and local governments, higher education institutions, and private employers with DEI initiatives, diminishing efforts to counter and reduce discrimination.

Cumulatively, businesses would be less able to hire and retain a diverse workforce.

From pages 4, 5, 103, 258, 352, 580 – 585, and 708 of the Mandate for Leadership.

  • Threaten America’s monetary stability

Keeping prices stable and inflation rates low preserves the value of money over time. Project 2025’s proposals risk dramatic swings in the valuation of our currency, harming both consumers and the economy.

Project 2025 proposes abolishing the Federal Reserve, consideration of a “free banking” system, and eliminating or reducing the role of the Federal Reserve as a lender of last resort. The Federal Reserve has played an important and independent role in stabilizing the value of the dollar. Eliminating or politicizing the Federal Reserve could lead to inflation or stagflation.

From pages 736 – 737 of the Mandate for Leadership.

  • Restrict trade, increase the price of goods, and limit foreign investment in the name of “protectionism.”

Project 2025’s menu of policy options includes a call for an anti-democratic president to take a protectionist approach to trade, which restricts trade and increases the price of goods.

Business thrives when people have money in their pockets. Protectionist approaches to trade can cost Americans: a 10% universal tariff (which President Trump has spoken favorably about) imports would cost the typical U.S. family $1,500. Moreover, fair trade policies like the ones in Project 2025 limit foreign investment and trade, all of which can hurt businesses’ bottom line.

From pages 765 – 795 of the Mandate for Leadership.

  • Eradicate or manipulate data sources businesses rely on

A key function of government is collection and maintenance of large national data sources that provide information regarding trends in our nation on everything from the weather to the workforce.

Many of these data sources are critical for economic forecasting and for businesses to be able to make smart decisions about products to invest in, untapped markets, and more. Project 2025 would halt government’s collection of wage and labor data (such as EEO-1 data regarding workforce demographics), which are needed for accurate economic forecasting. Without this, businesses will be forced to make major decisions in the dark. 

From page 583 of the Mandate for Leadership.

Goal: Target Immigrants, Expand Executive Power

Despite the majority of Americans supporting a pathway to citizenship, an orderly and functional asylum system, and a welcoming approach to immigration, Project 2025 lays out a plan to aggressively expand executive power and shred America’s immigration system. Project 2025 would cut off asylum at the border, slash access to legal immigration pathways, use local resources to carry out mass deportations and mass detention, and hurt immigrant kids and families. It is a dark, cruel vision for America, targeted at immigrants and affecting all of us.

Here’s what you need to know about Project 2025’s extreme and deeply unpopular Day One plans to attack our immigrant neighbors, friends, and family members—plans that a far-right president would implement through executive action and federal agencies alone.

  • Project 2025 Harms Asylum Seekers and Children at the Border

The Trump administration spent four years trying everything they could think of – much of it illegal – to deny people fleeing persecution access to the U.S. asylum system. Project 2025 would reinstate those policies, including “Remain in Mexico” and various regulatory bars to asylum (pp. 145, 151), leaving thousands of migrants stranded at the U.S.-Mexico border, vulnerable to abuse, kidnapping, rape, and extortion. Project 2025 purports to give the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary full, unfettered discretion to suspend all immigration laws when they alone decide there is a “mass migration event” – discretion which could easily be abused (p. 152). U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) horseback-mounted patrols, notorious for abusing Haitian migrants on the banks of the Rio Grande, would be revived (p. 139).

  • Project 2025 Cancels Immigrants’ Legal Status to Facilitate Deportations

Millions of immigrants in the U.S. have various types of immigration status that Project 2025 would revoke, cancel, or eliminate, making them all deportable. Project 2025 advocates ending visa programs for victims of trafficking (T visas) and for victims of crime who assist law enforcement (U visas) (pp. 141, 150). This right-wing agenda would also cancel Temporary Protected Status for over 800,000 people whose home countries are currently unsafe to return to (p. 150).

  • Project 2025 Uses Local Resources to Carry Out Harmful Mass Deportations and Detention

DHS – despite having the nation’s largest law enforcement budget – does not have sufficient resources to deport the “millions” of immigrants the far right has targeted. Project 2025 requires local law enforcement agencies to hold migrants for DHS or lose their federal funding (p. 137). It also mandates “total information-sharing,” giving the federal government access to state databases (p. 138). Project 2025 encourages more use of the 287(g) program, which deputizes local law enforcement to engage in immigration law enforcement – destroying productive relationships with the community in the process (pp. 141, 153). By expanding expedited removal (p. 142) and detention (pp. 140-41, 151) and authorizing tent camps (pp. 140, 151), Project 2025 would carry out a harmful mass deportation campaign that would violate immigrants’ rights and upend daily life across this country.

  • Project 2025 Hurts Immigrant Kids and Families

The Project 2025 immigration agenda is particularly cruel to immigrant children and families, including mixed-status families where some people have citizenship or immigration status and some do not. Project 2025 advocates for ending the Flores settlement agreement in order to detain children in jail-like conditions (p. 148). Mixed-status families would be barred from federally subsidized housing (p. 167). College students who are not citizens or green card holders would not be awarded student loans – and Project 2025 would bar all students from loans if they attend a school that offers in-state tuition to undocumented students (p. 167). Over the long term, Project 2025 would reject our country’s historic commitment to family unity in the immigration system, favoring instead the small “nuclear” family and highly-educated immigrants from rich countries over broad family reunification (p. 145).

Project 2025’s immigration agenda also doubles down on its overall attack on civil servants and the separation of powers to consolidate authority in the Executive branch. For example, the DHS chapter advocates for placing ideologues in high-ranking “Acting” positions throughout the agency from Day One, without the required hearings and approval by the Senate, in order to push a far-right agenda without Congressional involvement (p. 136). 

In addition to Project 2025, it is clear that there are additional plans for a future far-right administration to target and harm immigrants, including invoking the Insurrection Act to use the military for immigration enforcement, deporting people 14 years old and above without due process under the Alien Enemies Act, and reinstating the Muslim Ban. There is also significant concern that an anti-immigrant administration would deploy Customs and Border Protection roving patrols and set up checkpoints within 100 miles of the border – essentially using CBP as the Executive branch’s personal anti-immigrant police force in most major U.S. cities and urban areas.

Project 2025 is Already Underway in the Courts

Far-right extremists are already working to impose some of the most unpopular proposals in Project 2025 through court cases across the country. If a far-right president was empowered to politicize the Department of Justice (DOJ), it could refuse to defend the freedoms, protections, and programs under attack in the cases below, ensuring that these aspects of Project 2025 are enshrined into law.

Here are just some of the Project 2025 goals that right-wing extremists are pushing to achieve in courtrooms across the country, providing a glide path to implementing their dangerous playbook:

  • Restrict Access To Medication Abortion Nationwide

Even though the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this term that the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM) does not have standing in their case against the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), access to mifepristone remains at risk as the case, FDA v. AHM*, continues before Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, and anti-abortion attorneys general in Idaho, Missouri, and Kansas continue to pursue this same case against the safe, effective medication.

(Aligns with Mandate for Leadership (MFL) page 458, and others.)

  • Take Away Overtime Pay

There is currently a lawsuit* underway in which corporations and lobbying groups are requesting a federal court get rid of a U.S. Department of Labor rule which expands overtime pay for 4.3 million workers.

(MFL page 592.)

  • Stop Medicare From Negotiating Lower Drug Prices

Medicare now has the authority to negotiate the price of some of the most expensive prescription drugs thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). However, drugmakers and lobbyists have filed a number of pending lawsuits* across the country in an attempt to block the cost-lowering program.

(MFL page 465.)

  • Restrict Access To Birth Control

In March 2024, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld* a Texas law that requires parental consent for minors to obtain contraception, even though federal law allows teens to confidentially obtain birth control through Title X. Texas filed a similar, follow-up lawsuit in late July 2024.

(MFL pages 483 – 484)

  • End Student Debt Repayment Plans

The Biden administration’s latest student loan repayment plan is being challenged by attorneys general from right-wing states who have filed suit, arguing that the plan is an example of federal overreach.

(MFL pages 353-354)

  • Cut Access To Affordable Health Care

 In Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra,* challengers allege that portions of the Affordable Care Act that require insurance companies to cover preventive services without a copay are illegal, in an action that could affect over 150 million people in the U.S.—especially women and women of color. The issue has been sent back to the district court, but the federal government has indicated it will seek review now in the Supreme Court.

(MFL pages 483 – 484)

Project 2025 is Already Underway in the the States

Far-right extremists are already working to impose some of the most unpopular proposals in Project 2025 in states across the country. Even as some try to distance themselves from Project 2025’s proposals or to question its practicability in light of current backlash, it is clear that the movement is deeply tied to the core tenets of the project. Other far-right actors in state legislatures and state courts have been successfully implementing those proposals for years, and they continue to do so today. Importantly, these extremist actors are laying the groundwork for Project 2025, by using the states as a testing ground for implementing and normalizing their far-right playbook.

The kind of America that could exist if a far-right president implemented Project 2025 can be hard to imagine, but they are already real to many people across the country. Here are just a few of Project 2025’s goals that have come to fruition in America today that preview this anti-democratic and regressive future:

  • Ignoring the Constitution

Underlying much of Project 2025 is a contempt for the system of checks and balances at the core of our constitutional system of government. Worryingly, we have already seen this contempt for our constitutional system play out in various states across the country.

  • Utah: Governor Spencer Cox signed the “Utah Constitutional Sovereignty Act” to allow the state legislature to essentially overrule a federal law in violation of the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. 
  • Texas: For years, Governor Greg Abbott has executed his own border policies, including Operation Lone star, in contravention of the federal government’s long-recognized constitutional authority to make and implement immigration policy for the United States.

Missouri: In 2021, Governor Mike Parson signed the “Second Amendment Preservation Act” into law, asserting that certain longstanding, valid federal laws relating to firearms “shall not be recognized by this state” and “shall be specifically rejected by this state.” H.B. 85, § 1.430. This sought to invalidate federal laws in violation of the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, as federal courts have ruled.

  • Abusing Military Force and State Violence

Reporting indicates that Project 2025 has plans for the president to invoke the Insurrection Act in order to deploy the military domestically, actions that would be a shocking departure from the norms and traditions of our nation but have already been previewed at the state level.

  • Florida: Governor Ron DeSantis signed a law in 2022 creating a state militia called the Florida State Guard solely under the governor’s command. DeSantis has already abused this force by sending it to assist Texas with its illegal border operations.

States Send National Guard Troops To Texas: In 2024 alone, 12 states sent National Guard troops to assist TX with its illegal border operations: AR, GA, IA, ID, IN, MO, MT, NH, NE, TE, SD and UT.

  • Attacking Civil Servants

A fundamental principle underlying Project 2025 is removing any checks to the president’s authority within the executive branch. Far-right actors seek to accomplish this through a variety of means, including by purging the nation’s nonpartisan civil service. These actors tried and failed to effectuate this purging during the last administration through the former president’s so-called Schedule F Executive Order that would have made many civil servants’ employment at-will.

  • Florida: One of the architects of Schedule F, which failed at the federal level, has advocated for the expansion of at-will civil service employment in Florida state government.

Texas and Georgia: The movement to make civil servant at-will employees long predates the current movement involving Schedule F. Civil servants in Texas and Georgia are almost entirely all at-will, with civil service “reforms” in those states being effectuated in 1985 and 1996, respectively.

  • Weaponizing Government

Project 2025 does not seek to centralize power within the executive branch as an end to itself, but in order to enable the president and his allies to weaponize government against their political opponents. The most blatant example of this in Project 2025 is the plan to end the independence of the Department of Justice, but the far right’s ultimate objective is broader: to empower the president to weaponize all levers of state power against political adversaries.

  • Texas: In 2021, Governor Abbott in Texas threatened to defund the state legislature as retaliation for not passing a restrictive election bill. In 2024, Governor Abbott’s education commissioner took over Houston’s nearly 200,000-student public school district.

Florida: In 2023, Governor DeSantis suspended a county prosecutor for political purposes and punished Disney for opposing the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law. Indeed, the kinds of anti-democratic policies at the heart of Project 2025 are already being tested and normalized at the state level.

  • Dismantling Public Education

A fundamental component of Project 2025 is to dismantle public education in America, including by expanding voucher programs, empowering charter schools, censoring curriculum, and outright shuttering public schools. This work has long been underway in states across the country.

  • Vouchers: In 2023, 12 states expanded voucher programs and seven created new ones. Enrollment in charter schools rose from about “2.1 million students in fall 2011 to nearly 3.7 million in fall 2021.”
  • Book Bans: In the last three years, 42 states have experienced book bans and 16 states have passed “divisive concepts” legislation limiting what can be learned and taught.

School Closures: During the last school year, almost 70 school districts declared school closures, with the closures particularly affecting low-income students and students of color. These state-level policies serve as a preview of what’s to come if a far-right president implements Project 2025.

  • Banning Abortion and Monitoring Women

Project 2025’s plans to restrict reproductive freedoms would enable the tracking of abortions nationwide (“abortion surveillance”), ban medication abortion by reversing FDA’s approval of mifepristone, and even weaponize the Comstock Act to ban abortion nationwide.

  • Banning or Limiting Medication Abortion Access: This work is already underway across the country with 14 states almost completely banning medication abortion, including Indiana, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Mississippi. Louisiana has even passed a law making medication abortion drugs “controlled, dangerous substances.” 
  • Ban Abortion Locally: Far-right actors have concocted legal strategies to ban abortion in towns and cities even in states where abortion is protected, including in New Mexico and Illinois. 
  • Prohibit Travel to Receive Reproductive Care: Far-right actors have sought to prohibit those living in places that do not allow abortion from traveling to a state where they are allowed to obtain one.

Comstock: The far-right plan is to ban abortion nationwide even without the help of a far-right president. Part and parcel of this plan has been an effort at the local level to try and force the Supreme Court to rule on the applicability of Comstock, by passing local abortion bans based on the 19th century law.

  • Attacking Civil Rights

A fundamental objective of Project 2025 is reversing recent civil rights advances, including long standing protections for people of color, hard-won rights for LGBTQ+ individuals, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs both inside and outside of the federal government. For years, states across the country have served as testing grounds for these kinds of actions that Project 2025 would like to implement on the federal level.

  • Restrict DEI Initiatives: In the 2024 legislative session alone, state legislators in over 30 states have introduced more than 100 bills to regulate or restrict DEI initiatives. To date, TN, TX and UT have passed anti-DEI bills, with such bills having also advanced in at least one chamber in several other states.

Attack LGBTQ+ rights: As of May 2024, almost 40% of trans youth between the ages of 13-17 live in one of the 25 states that have banned gender-affirming care, about 40% live in one of 27 states with sports participation bans, and another 40% live in one of 31 states that have proposed or enacted a gender-affirming pronoun ban.

  • Targeting Immigrants to Consolidate Power

Project 2025 seeks to radically decrease immigration and deport millions of immigrants who are already here. But it is essential to understand that these policies are not really about immigration: they are about consolidating power.

For years, the far right has targeted immigrants as a scare tactic to push voters to accept the need for a strong-man authoritarian leader who can “fix” the “problem.” They have pointed to the supposed “threat” of immigration to distract the public and the media from their unpopular policy positions and from actual threats like climate change, gun violence, and domestic terrorism. And they have invoked a so-called “migrant invasion” to lay the groundwork to challenge the 2024 presidential election and eventually to expand the powers of the executive through the Alien Enemies Act or the Insurrection Act. This same anti-immigrant campaign for authoritarian ends is playing out in the states now. 

Louisiana: This year, Governor Jeff Landry, issued an Executive Order entitled “Identifying, Quantifying, and Mitigating the Adverse Effects of Illegal Immigration.” The order requires that state law enforcement maintain a public list of arrested immigrants, encouraging vigilante justice and threatening some of our communities that have been historically made most vulnerable without due process of law.

The threats from Project 2025 do not end here.

These examples only begin to catalog the people and communities who are at risk of being harmed as Trump begins to implement Project 2025’s proposals.

Businesses and industry across the country could be harmed not just from the lack of data collection discussed above, but also from proposals to politicize the Federal Reserve or to restrict free trade.

Our country’s national security itself, too, is threatened by proposals to concentrate military decision making, further undermine our intelligence agencies, or promote isolationist policies.

Do not sit by and just let this happen. Get involved in local politics. Educate yourself as much as possible. Spread the word to anyone who will listen.

We beat the Nazis once, we can do it again.