Stop Calling It A “Shutdown.”
What’s happening to the U.S. Government IS NOT a shutdown. What’s happening is the Trump administration is executing the recommendations in Project 2025...
What’s happening to the U.S. Government IS NOT a shutdown.
What’s happening is a deliberately orchestrated and planned takedown of the Federal government, aided by a complicit corporate media machine, and as politicized Supreme Court.
Read Project 2025
What’s happening is the Trump administration is executing the recommendations in Project 2025.
Project 2025’s stated goal is to:
“go to work on Day One to deconstruct the administrative state.”
That’s precisely what is happening. The administrative state of the United States of America is being deconstructed.
Project 2025 Attacks Workers
Project 2025 suggests Congress ban public sector unions entirely. It sees them as being incompatible with constitutional government. The plan also suggests Congress waive state and local governments from complying with federal labor laws like the National Labor Relations Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act. Project 2025 also threatens Private sector unions by seeking to end Private sector labor agreements and repealing Davis-Bacon wage requirements.
Project 2025 Attacks Healthcare
Project 2025 calls for ending the federal government’s ability to negotiate drug prices, repealing the $35 per month cap on insulin costs for seniors on Medicare, and ending Medicare’s $2,000 per year cap on out-of-pocket drug costs that begins in 2025. We’re seeing this happen as the administration distracts from this happening by announcing lower costs on highly profitable weight loss medications.
Project 2025 advocates setting a lifetime cap on Medicaid coverage. Suggestions include imposing a 36 month limit. This would harm millions of Medicaid beneficiaries as well as health care facilities and Medicaid providers serving patients including nurses, home care providers, emergency medical personnel and physicians.
Project 2025 also encourages the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to encourage states to adopt work incentives for able-bodied individuals receiving Medicaid.
The plan also recommends eliminating merit staffing requirements for the Wagner-Peyser Employment Service and unemployment insurance workers, which would allow merit staffers to more easily be replaced by lower paid private contractors with no worker benefits.
Project 2025 Attacks “Head Start”
Project 2025 calls for the complete elimination of the Head Start program,
which serves more than 833,000 children living in poverty. Eliminating Head Start would drive up child care costs for all, since it would take away child care services when the demand already far exceeds availability.
On the other hand, Progressive policies like the Free Childcare initiative promised by Zohran Mamdani, the newly elected mayor of New York City, would lower childcare costs, improve child health outcomes, and reduce child poverty.
Project 2025 Attacks Education
Project 2025 calls for dismantling the Department of Education to facilitate what it calls school choice and increased parental control over schools. Much of this has been done, and we are waiting to see the impact across the nation.
Project 2025 Attacks Student Debt Relief
Project 2025 seeks to eliminate the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
enacted during the George W. Bush administration, phase out the income driven repayment program in favor of unregulated private collection practices, and end the Biden-Harris SAVE initiative. Essentially making student debt an inescapable financial prison for millions of Americans.
Project 2025 Attacks Immigration Reform
Project 2025 calls for dismantling the Department of Homeland
Security, consolidating other immigration agencies, increasing fees for immigrants and allowing a fast-track option for higher fees (which favors the wealthy & privileged). The project seeks to end laws against apprehending migrants in sensitive places like schools, playgrounds and churches, and suggests using active-duty military personnel and the National Guard in arrest operations on the border. The project also calls for building a wall on the Mexican border.
The Trump administration has expanded upon these proposals by launching arrest operations in Democratic cities.
Project 2025 Attacks The Economy
Project 2025 proposes massive cuts to both corporate and personal income
taxes. Eliminating taxes effectively defunds government. Which means no available funding to address public needs at scale.
The plan also suggests the next administration should consider abolishing the Federal Reserve and returning to the gold-backed currency standard.
Project 2025 Attacks Climate Protections
Project 2025 calls for cutting federal money for renewable energy and increasing
energy production and security. The plan also suggests the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, a part of the Department of Commerce, be downsized due to stop their efforts to raise alarms and promote actions to address climate change.
Project 2025 Attacks Reproductive Rights
The word “abortion” appears 199 times in the report, reflecting its extreme focus on this issue.
Project 2025 proposes that the abortion drug Mifepristone be removed from the market entirely or limited to the first seven weeks of pregnancy. It calls on the Department of Justice to enforce the Comstock Act, which, some argue, bans the mailing of abortion drugs.
It also calls for the federal government to penalize states that require abortion coverage in private insurance by reducing their Medicaid funding by up to 10%. They also call on CMS to disqualify any provider of elective abortions from Medicaid.
And, the plan recommends that the next president replace the Biden administration’s Reproductive Healthcare Access Task Force with a “Pro-Life Task Force.”
Project 2025 Attacks Gender Identity
Project 2025 calls on the Department of Health and Human Services to
declare that “men and women are biological realities and married men and women are the ideal, natural family.”
Project 2025 Promotes Authoritarian Rule
Project 2025 calls for Trump to place the entire federal bureaucracy under the direct control of the president, including agencies that historically acted with
considerable independence such as the Department of Justice.
The blueprint proposes the elimination of civil service protections for thousands of government employees who could then be replaced by political appointees who are beholden to the executive. Project 2025 claims this policy, known as the unitary executive theory, would streamline decision-making, ensuring a more efficient government. It would. But that’s not democracy!
This is happening.
And the 4 real and most important questions are:
- What’s been broken?
- What did it do and who was affected?
- What do we want to do now, and for who?
- What will we do and in what order?
It’s important in this moment not to simply seek to undo what’s been done, but to examine what we want to do now. So that we may move forward based upon a new and current vision for our future. And so that we craft rules that bind us towards our vision.
It's important in this moment that we only:
- Elect representatives who openly seek to represent us.
- Elect representatives who ask us what we need, and listen.
- Elect representatives who are committed to focus on and promote our common needs (and avoid catering to niche wants and desires.)
- Elect representatives who openly share their agenda and a platform.
- Elect representatives who openly share their party affiliations.
- Elect representatives who only take our money, so we know they work for us.
This is a pivotal moment in the history of our entire world.
And stop calling it a “Shutdown.” It’s not.
