Understanding Project 2025 and Why You Should Care

Project 2025 is a proposed presidential transition project written by conservative strategists including the previous President’s staff. The plan includes overhauling vital government agencies and eliminating protections in key areas such as health care, education, the environment and civil rights.

Here are just a few things that will be negatively impacted or completely eliminated by this plan:

  • The U.S. Department of Justice

  • The U.S. Department of Education

  • The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (they warn us about storms and other critical weather events)

  • The Federal Headstart Program

  • The Affordable Care Act

  • Reproductive Care

  • African American Studies and Other Cultural Educational Programs

For example, under the Department of Defense strategy titled: Eliminate politicization, reestablish trust and accountability, and restore faith to the force, the plan is to:

“Eliminate…divisive critical race theory programs and abolish newly established diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and staff.”

As you can see, this is too important to ignore. To learn more about how Black communities would be impacted if Project 2025 were to be implemented, take a look at these trusted news sources below or read it for yourself here.

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  • While the document contains dozens of controversial proposals, arguably the biggest one is to shut down the Department of Education, an institution created in 1867, not long after the end of the Civil War. The theory, according to the blueprint, is to eliminate red tape so that families will be “free to choose from a diverse set of school options and learning environments.” 

    But the plan also would wipe out the Ed Department’s Office of Civil Rights, a sub-agency that enforces civil rights laws and investigates schools accused of engaging in discrimination. Although it’s been 70 years since the Supreme Court outlawed separate-but-equal education in public schools, OCR is not lacking for work: in 2023, it handled more than 19,000 complaints last year, roughly 1,000 more cases than in 2022. Read more here

  • Project 2025 calls for shifting the attention of the U.S. Department of Justice to quashing the supposed menace of “anti-white racism” by abolishing affirmative action policies. The policy agenda also calls for the next Republican administration to use the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division to “prosecute all state and local governments, institutions of higher education, corporations, and any other private employers” with affirmative action or DEI policies. And it demands that “voter registration fraud and unlawful ballot correction” be investigated by the DOJ’s Criminal Division instead of by its Civil Rights Division. Read more here

  • Project 2025, a 922-page playbook of controversial policy proposals intended to guide the next conservative administration, is gaining attention as the presidential election campaigns heat up.

    Project 2025 has been authored by at least two dozen members of Donald Trump's administration and allies, organized by conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation and is backed by more than 100 additional groups. Read here

  • The foundation wants to end another key federal program: Head Start, which offers free early childhood education, health and nutrition services to children from low-income families.

    • That would eliminate services for the families of roughly 800,000 children, two-thirds of whom are Black, Hispanic or Latino.

    • It seeks to limit the number of children who can qualify for free school meal programs while also calling for Republicans to block any effort to implement universal free school meal programs.

    Read more here

  • “If we’re not outraged, then we’re not awake,” said Maya Wiley, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. She spoke during a Tuesday panel hosted by the Center for American Progress about the myriad ways Project 2025 will “dismantle American democracy.”

    Panelists decried numerous policy proposals in the Heritage Foundation plan, including further restricting abortion care, eliminating worker protection rights and undoing decades-long programs to advance civil rights.

    Read more here