Project 2025: The Republican Blueprint for America

LAST MONTH'S MEETING:  PROJECT 2025 Part 2 (Policies) RECAP

Defines family strictly as a married man and woman with children, allowing adoption agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ+ and unmarried couples (p.451, 477-478 of Project 2025).

Maintains a patriarchal view of family roles, emphasizing father as breadwinner and mother as nurturer, encouraging funding for in-home familial care over daycare (p.478-481, 486 of Project 2025).

Severely restricts reproductive freedoms by defunding Planned Parenthood, banning chemical abortion drugs, prohibiting abortion travel funding, and eliminating contraception coverage mandates on moral grounds (multiple pages).

Proposes eliminating the Federal Department of Education, shifting funding and policy control entirely to states, and privatizing student loans while cutting education programs like Head Start (p.319-354, 482). Many saw the actions last week of the DOE starting to negate Masters degrees in Nursing, in Education, in Business Administration, Accountants and others as no longer “Professional Careers” and therefore ineligible for loan forgiveness and tuition support. 

Enables widespread discrimination against LGBTQ+ people in adoption, healthcare, military service, schools, workplaces, and allows religious exemptions to nondiscrimination laws (p.103, 334, 451, 584-586 of Project 2025).

Eliminates diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across government, including shutting down offices and making participation grounds for employment termination (p.462, 708).

Weakens equality enforcement by dismantling the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s regulatory power and invalidating disparate impact discrimination theory (p.583-587).

Cuts Medicaid and healthcare access by imposing stricter eligibility, work requirements, repealing ACA mandates, and terminating public funding for reproductive healthcare (pp. 455-471).

Restricts federally assisted housing eligibility, increasing work requirements, selling public housing to private developers, and ending Housing First policies (pp. 509-512).

Aggressively enforces immigration restrictions by militarizing border control, targeting sanctuary cities, reducing visa caps, eliminating protections for asylum seekers and unaccompanied children (p.138-178).

Dismantles environmental protections by withdrawing from climate agreements, promoting fossil fuel production, repealing landmark environmental acts, and weakening endangered species protections (pp. 257, 308, 521-532).

Changes wage and labor protections by allowing flexible overtime rules, limiting employee benefits deductions, and promoting younger ages for employment, as well as anti-Union provisions (pp. 587, 599-600, 697).

Proposes significant tax reforms including fewer brackets and lower rates, eliminating farmer subsidies and disaster relief funding (pp. 304-307, 696-698).

Alters military and education policy by requiring secondary school students to take military entrance exams and giving military chaplains expanded religious protections (pp. 102-103, 109).

Overall, Project 2025 is an assault on our democracy: it targets voting rights, freedom of speech, separation of church and state, and advances an agenda centered on “Christian nationalism,” social conservatism, reduced government oversight, and benefiting wealthy interests at the expense of marginalized groups and public welfare programs.

Coming soon to our ISD website - A condensed version of the Project 2025 slide presentation by Mary Lee Jenkins and the disinformation team.