If the ideology of Project 2025 was ever fully implemented our society would be destroyed and every American would be worse off as would our Country.
As it stands now we have a president who lied to us about Project 2025 and who is doing his best to implement as many of its proposals as possible.
The basic Project 2025 philosophy
1. Shrink the federal administrative state
Project 2025 views the permanent federal bureaucracy as having accumulated too much independent power. Its goal is to dismantle or substantially reduce the “administrative state” and return more authority to elected officials, states, and individuals.
This is one of its most fundamental ideas.
2. Give the president much greater control over the executive branch
It argues that the elected president should have greater ability to direct federal agencies and personnel rather than having career bureaucrats effectively determine policy.
That’s why Project 2025 isn’t merely a list of conservative policies. It also contains a personnel database, training program and implementation playbook designed to have thousands of conservative officials ready to take government positions immediately.
So effectively they want to replace career federal employees they don’t like with career federal employees they do like.
Does any of that give you cause for concern? It does me.
1. In a society of 340+ plus human beings more authority given to 50 different states means 50 different was of treating people especially when it comes to healthcare and essential social services. Is that fair?
Authority to individuals? In other words – keep your money and do for yourself, there is no need for an organized response to human needs because all 340 million of us are quite equal in ability and capable of fending for ourselves. Look around and see how well that works in practice.
2. Giving more authority to one person seems like a very bad idea which is clearly being demonstrated today. We have a president trying to control our healthcare, our children’s health, degrade our environment and even telling our navy how to build aircraft carriers… via executive order.
Trump has issued well over 100 executive orders in his second term through August 2026.
We have a leader obsessed with status, power and grandiosity. A person who seeks statues and images of himself on public buildings. A malignant narcissist who seeks to belittle our judiciary, manipulate and control the press and other media.
A man who surrounds himself not with the best qualified, skilled or competent, but with sycophants who align with the Project 2025 ideology and who will do his bidding to gain their own power.
How trustworthy does this sound?
September 10, 2024 presidential debate with Kamala Harris: “I have nothing to do with Project 2025. I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it, purposely. I’m not going to read it.” He added that some ideas were good and some bad, but insisted it made no difference because he had nothing to do with it.
October 2, 2025 (Truth Social, as president): Announced a meeting with OMB Director Russ Vought (a key Project 2025 architect) by calling him “he of PROJECT 2025 Fame” to discuss cutting “Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM,” and whether cuts would be temporary or permanent. He framed a government shutdown as an “unprecedented opportunity” given by Democrats.
His campaign also issued statements rejecting any association, and Project 2025’s director stepped down amid the controversy.
Trump appointed several Project 2025 contributors or authors to key roles (including Vought at OMB). Independent analyses have noted substantial overlap between early second-term executive actions/policies and Project 2025 recommendations (e.g., on civil service changes, DEI, immigration, education, and energy), though the White House has at times denied using the document as a formal blueprint.
In short: Strong public distancing and claims of ignorance/disagreement during the campaign; more open name-checking and personnel alignment once in office.
In other words he lied about his knowledge of Project 2025 and has and is using much of what it wants to be the way our government works … including consolidating power and control.
A snake in the grass if there ever was one.
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I especially agree with the paragraph beginning “Authority to individuals?” I know people who seem to believe that for those who are less capable of fending for themselves, it’s their own fault and too bad. Not my problem. That old book The Tragedy of American Compassion, if I recall its message correctly, posited that during times when governmental safety nets were cut, private organizations and people stepped up. But I think the safety nets should stay, especially Head Start, WIC and SNAP. They would be hard to replace and defenseless poor children would suffer.
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So, you think we should maintain the status quo, or the status quo ante before the idiot ass Trump (2016)?
You think we should continue to run ~$2 Trillion in annual deficits, even though our national debt has reached $40 Trillion, and we face funding deficits for Social Security (OASI) of $30+ Trillion today (exhaustion in 2032) – much larger if funded over decades to come, (much more by other estimates), and a funding deficit for Medicare (HI only, exhaustion in 2033) of $4+ Trillion today?
You think we should adopt more policies like Health Reform and the added dollop of subsidies for public exchange coverage that ended 12/31/25, so that more people are dependent on deficit spending entitlements – sending the bill to generations too young to vote and generations yet unborn?
You think the 60+ year old “War on Poverty”, including pre-Trump II versions of Head Start, WIC and SNAP, as well as Medicaid, should be continued?
See: https://budget.house.gov/press-release/60-year-anniversary-of-the-war-on-poverty_-are-we-winning-or-losing
Written by Republicans, blaming Democrats for deficits resulting from ever increasing spending, Republicans need to look in the mirror.
However, the reports conclusions are accurate – federal government actions over the past 20+ years, starting with President George W. Bush (Medicare Modernization), through President Obama (Health Reform), the idiot ass President Trump (both terms) and President Biden (“Inflation Reduction Act”, multiemployer pension bailout, Social Security Fairness Act, etc.), have made more Americans dependent on government transfers and new entitlements funded by deficit spending, and failures to sync taxation/funding with spending.
Is Project 2025 the right answer? Probably not.
Has Trump, in either term, done anything that truly changed the trajectory we are on of ever increasing spending via deficit spending? No.
Is maintaining the status quo antecedent before Trump (2016) the right answer? Nope – we still faced Social Security and Medicare Trust Fund exhaustion, and, our national debt had almost doubled during the Obama Administration from ~$10.6T to ~$19.9T
Did it get worse, much worse, during the Trump and Biden Administration’s? Yes, certainly, actions that increased spending far exceeded the ever increasing tax revenue generated by the American economy.
Do we have a taxing or a spending problem? Spending, obviously. Especially spending designed to buy votes – both Republicans and Democrats.
In FY 2001, we had $1.99 Trillion in revenue (receipts) and $1.86 Trillion in actual spending (outlays) resulting in a budget surplus of $127 Billion.
In FY 2025, we had $5.23 Trillion in revenue and $7.01 Trillion in spending, resulting in a budget deficit of $1.79 trillion.
Today’s revenues are 2.6x what they were 25 years ago, but, today’s spending is 3.77x what they were 25 years ago!
This is a classic case of Stein’s Law: “If Something Cannot Go On Forever, It Will Stop.”
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You may have misunderstood my comment. I said nothing about increasing spending on programs. I recall that under the Clinton administration, work requirements were instituted for those receiving cash benefits (with exceptions for mothers with newborns and those with disabilities). In the location where I served as a public health nurse and had access to the names and addresses of everyone on the “welfare rolls,” the very thick printout shrank incredibly. Many of the women I served were proud of their new jobs. which were things like being bus monitors and hospital laundry workers. The dire predictions that people would starve if their benefits depended upon a work requirement were completely unfounded. That change was a good thing for everyone involved. And please don’t jump to the conclusion that I am or ever was a fan of the Clintons, her or him. I am not. But sometimes we have to give credit where credit is due. The quick development of the Covid vaccine is another example. It might have saved my husband’s life if he hadn’t been infected in the early weeks. Maybe it ultimately saved mine. Idk.
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rnlinda
Unfortunately, for the past ~30 years, Congress has been eroding the goals of Clinton’s reform, designed to “End Welfare As We Know It.” Prior to the idiot ass Trump changes that were part of the One Big Beautiful Bill, we had entitlement spending that looked a lot like pre-1996 activity – where Congress measured success (such as enrollment in taxpayer subsidized health coverage) by the number enrolled in Medicaid and public exchange coverage, not so much measured by those enrolled in employer-sponsored coverage.
Best to you,
BenefitJack
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And all his disciples with the $25.00 red hats ALL bought into the “ waste, abuse, and fraud façade all to implement parts of project 2025.
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