Project 2025
Project 2025 is a 920-page manual on how to turn the American democracy into a conservative, authoritarian nation, weaponizing the presidency to dismantle the system of checks and balances and replacing all federal agencies with conservative loyalists. The plan would eliminate many personal freedoms, roll back vital safety nets, increase taxes on the middle class, and exert presidential power over the entire nation with minimal pushback.
The project outlines four pillars to execute the creation of a conservative, authoritarian regime:
The policy manual that has been published
A hiring database for conservative loyalists to replace federal government employees
An online educational tool of conservative advisors on how to use the government to further a conservative agenda
An unpublished, 180-day playbook outlining a complete overhaul of federal agencies to execute their extremist aspirations.
Project 2025 seeks to exert presidential control over federal agencies, including agencies meant to be independent from the branch, and weaponizing agencies like the FBI and DOJ to carry out their agenda. The current Supreme Court has already shown willingness to follow an extremist, conservative blueprint, meaning Congress is the only check left on a potential future where Project 2025 prevails.
H.Res.1386 carefully lays out the harmful measures Project 2025 advocates for.
How Does Project 2025 Impact The FL-20 Community?
Housing
Opposes changing zoning laws to encourage the construction of multifamily dwelling units and other affordable housing developments
Allows the existing supply of affordable/public housing to be sold off to private developers
Promotes shorter duration mortgages by increasing mortgage insurance premiums on loans lasting longer than 20 years
Weakens the Fair Housing Act
Abolishes the Supportive Housing program which provides long-term housing vouchers and intensive case management to those who are chronically homeless
Blocks the federal government from tracking racial disparities and discrimination in housing1
Leaves enforcement of federal fair housing laws to states and localities, which can leave some communities vulnerable to unfair treatment due to the anti-civil rights positions of some states and cities
Drastically limits the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) rental aid programs by
Reducing investments in housing assistance
Making it more difficult to obtain housing assistance
Ending house subsidies to low-income households who meet all requirements
Healthcare
Removes the FDA approval of mifepristone and other abortion pills
Makes it more difficult for individuals to access contraception, including the wholesale ban of Ella (ulipristal acetate)
Creates an abortion surveillance data collection system to monitor women who try to get an abortion
Threatens access to assisted reproductive technology (ART) and in vitro fertilization (IVF)
Privatizes Medicare and force beneficiaries into private Medicare Advantage plans as the default option
Repeals the Affordable Care Act
Repeals the Inflation Reduction Act – including the drug price negotiations
Purges the number of people on state Medicaid rolls and make it more difficult to enroll in Medicaid
Cuts the Head Start program
Allows Department of Health and Human Services to discriminate against patients based on their gender identity or sexual orientation
The Economy
Raises the retirement age and cuts Social Security benefits by roughly 13%
Increases taxes on working families2
Cuts the Head Start program, making it harder for low-income workers to keep a job without affordable childcare
Makes it more difficult to form a union, a key asset in raising worker wages
Education
Eliminates the U.S. Department of Education, including Title 1, which provides funds to support schools serving low-income communities
Bans Black history from school curricula and punishes students who attempt to provide accurate information on Black history
Ends the Head Start program, which provides education, health care, nutrition, and family services for children in poverty3
Implements a student loan borrowing plan that would increase payments for all borrowers in the income-driven repayment (IDR) plan4
Allows parents to sue schools over content that offends them
Requires teachers to out gay or transgender students
Veterans
Makes it more difficult for veterans to apply for and obtain disability benefits by reducing the number of medical conditions a veteran can claim to qualify
Abolishes the Supportive Housing program which could result in 81,400 veterans losing housing
Abolishes the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency responsible for protecting veterans from scams
Calls for a 75 percent reduction in the federal workforce over 4 years — Veterans make up 30% of the federal workforce
Civil Rights
Rolls back anti-discrimination regulations and protections in the workplace for women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people
Promotes heterosexual marriage as ideal
Funds and protects adoption agencies that discriminate against LGBTQ+ couples
Ends anti-discrimination housing rules, making it easier for landlords and real estate agents to discriminate based on race
Eliminates diversity and inclusion programs in schools
Calls for investigation on entities that have DEI initiatives
Decreases funding for students with disabilities
Requires teachers to out gay or transgender students
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WASHINGTON, DC ─ Today, Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) released the following statement regarding the passage of the Republicans’ One Big Ugly Bill.