It’s just a few days before we start the year 2025.
The first 180 days of TFG’s presidency has been aspirationally roadmapped by The Heritage Foundation in its Project 2025 policy initiative:
See also:
Project 2025 (also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project [3]) is a political initiative published in April 2022 by the American conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation. The project aims to promote conservative and right-wing policies to reshape the federal government of the United States and consolidate executive power, originally under the premise that Donald Trump would win the 2024 presidential election.[4][5][6]
Project 2025 is the ninth iteration of the Mandate for Leadership series, published since 1981. The project asserts a controversial interpretation of the unitary executive theory, according to which the entire executive branch is under the complete control of the U.S. president.[7][8][9] It proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of federal civil service workers as political appointees in order to replace them with people loyal to the president.[10] Proponents of the project argue it would dismantle what they view as a vast, unaccountable, and mostly liberal governmental bureaucracy.[11] The project also seeks to infuse the government and society with conservative Christian values.[12][13] Critics have characterized Project 2025 as an authoritarian, Christian nationalist plan to steer the U.S. toward autocracy.[12][14][15][16] Legal experts have said it would undermine the rule of law,[17] separation of powers,[5] separation of church and state,[18] and civil liberties.[5][17][19] …
In setting up this thread, my hope is to track what is happening IRL not just during the 180 days claimed to be outlined in The Heritage Foundation’s documentation, but what else is being done in the name of their project for only (one hopes) the next four years.
Some grist:
here’s Texas Progressive Rep. Greg Casar in an exchange with Project 2025 anti-immigrant bigot Mark Krikorian during a recent congressional hearing:
and also:
This isn’t exactly a palate cleanser, but I laugh to keep from crying:
