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    What is Project 2025? 10 things you need to know about the policy plan

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    During the 2024 presidential campaign, you may have heard of “Project 2025,” a conservative federal policy guide. Trump administration will probably try to implement it.

    920-page document titled “Leadership Authority”” has a variety of ideas about how he plans to shape major institutions in the country.

    throughout Trump’s campaign belittled The importance of Project 2025. During a debate with Vice President Kamala Harris on September 10, Trump said, “I have nothing to do with Project 2025. I didn’t read it. I don’t want to read this knowingly. “I won’t read it.”

    Here’s what you need to know about Project 2025:

    What is Project 2025?

    Project 2025 is a “transition to the presidency project” published by the USA. Heritage FoundationAn extremely conservative think tank.

    According to the American Civil Liberties Union, the plan covers a series of policies and structural changes aimed at implementing a conservative agenda on issues such as immigration, health care, education and federal regulations.

    For example, in the first part of the document, titled “Taking the reins of government”, it is stated that the immigration laws for the country have been restructured.

    “International organizations and agreements that erode our Constitution, the rule of law, or popular sovereignty should not be reformed: They should be abandoned. Illegal immigration should be ended, not eased; the border should be sealed, not reprioritized.”

    Who is Heritage Foundation?

    Founded in 1973, the Heritage Foundation is a nonprofit public policy research institute located in Washington, DC.

    What are the recommendations in the Project 2025 plan?

    There is much to uncover in the Project 2025 proposal. Some legal experts argue that many of the policy proposals are unconstitutional.

    according to ACLU, civilrights.organd according to the BBC, here are the 10 takeaways the plan hopes to achieve if implemented:

    • Banning critical race theory: Censorship of discussions Race, gender and oppression at school and other academia.
    • mass deportations: Implementation of policies that increase deportations and raids targeting immigrant communities, revoke birthright citizenship, separate families, and dismantle the country’s asylum system.
    • Banning access to abortion: Restricting access to abortion nationwide by revoking the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a key abortion drug, and reactivating the 19th-century Comstock Act, which prohibited abortion-related drugs, equipment, or supplies from being shipped through the U.S. Postal Service.
    • Centralization of executive power: Project 2025 aims to consolidate executive power by restructuring federal agencies to report more directly to the president.
    • Climate policy: The document envisions a reduction in federal funding for renewable energy research and investment. He is also advocating for policy change to support the oil and gas industries under the next president.
    • Technology: The proposed regulations aim to ban pornography and impose harsh penalties on technology and telecommunications companies that facilitate access to such content. If violations are detected, these companies may face closure.
    • Internal Security: Project 2025 proposes disbanding the Department of Homeland Security and integrating its functions with other agencies’ immigration enforcement units to establish a border police agency.
    • Publicly supported journalism: He plans to cut taxpayer funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which helps fund NPR and PBS.
    • LGBTQ+ protections: Removing protections for LGBTQ+ individuals, e.g. Gender Policy CouncilA work of the Biden administration that promotes equality.
    • Economic and Trade Policy with China: Project 2025 advocates cutting ties with China by blocking partnerships and restricting access to Chinese-owned apps like TikTok.

    What did Trump say about the 2025 Project?

    The vast majority of writers and editors working on Project 2025 – 31 out of 38 – Has connections to Trump or his previous administration. These include: Chris MillerTrump’s former acting secretary of defense Ken Cuccinelliacting secretary of internal security and Peter Navarroformer White House aide Sentenced to prison for defying subpoenas From the committee investigating Trump’s efforts to steal the election.

    Paul Dans, Trump’s former chief of staff for the US Office of Personnel Management. Director of Project 2025. Trump advisor Stephen Miller and spokesperson Karoline Leavitt appeared in the video the project prepared for the “Presidential Academy of Management.”

    Trump claimed in July that he was walking away from the project. Real Social post “I don’t know anything about Project 2025.” He also said he disagreed with some of the things said about the plan, calling them “absolutely ridiculous and awful.”

    Representatives of the Trump campaign did not respond to USA TODAY’s request for comment. The Heritage Foundation also did not respond to a request for comment.

    — USA TODAY reporter Cybele Mayes-Osterman contributed to this report.

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