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20/07/24 09:32 AM IST

Project 2025

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  • Mr. Trump, who survived an assassination attempt, recently came under fire for a controversial policy roadmap called ‘Project 2025’, penned by some of his allies and ex-employees of his administration.
Project 2025
  • Project 2025, termed as a ‘Presidential Transition project’ talks of how to reshape US’ governing policy with a conservative agenda, personnel, training and a roadmap for the first 180 days of the presidency.
  • While the project has been in the making since 2023, it has recently gained traction after Mr. Biden declared “Project 2025 will destroy America” in early July, and has continued to attack Mr. Trump over it.
Policy
  • Under its policy agenda, Project 2025 quotes a book named ‘Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise’ which will aid the next ‘conservative President’ taking office in January 2025 to ‘deconstruct the Administrative State’ and ‘save America’.
  • Detailing its plans for various government departments like Defence, Education, Commerce, Trade, Justice, Homeland Security, Health, Energy, Environment and the bureaucracy, the project makes several dramatic suggestions:
  • Give the President direct supervision of bureaucrats without congressional approval, more power over Justice department.
  • Eliminate a federal department of Education and send funds to States to structure courses, infrastructure, and syllabi, among other items.
  • Promote oil, gas and nuclear-based energy sources, end energy efficiency standards, green subsidies and stop focus on climate change.
  • Reduce union rights and make membership optional.
  • Reduce the Environmental Protection Agency’s mandate to only regulation, taking away its policymaking powers.
  • Restrict the use of abortion pills, promote ‘stable, man-woman married, nuclear families’, ban pornography.
  • Place the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the supervision of a politically-appointed leader like the Assistant Attorney General, and dismantle Homeland Security.
  • Overhaul of foreign policy regarding Mexico, Russia, China, Iran, and Korea; make immigration and visa policies more stringent. 
Governance of the project
  • The initiative, which was first commissioned in 2023, is spearheaded by The Heritage Foundation – an influential wight-wing think tank which has been guiding conservative policies since the Reagan Administration.
  • In its latest ‘Mandate for Leadership’, it claims that the Trump Administration followed almost two-thirds of its goals within its first year.
  • Apart from the Foundation, there are about 100 conservative organizations involved in the project such as Alabama Policy Institute, American Cornerstone Institute, Center for Military Readiness, Gun Owners Foundation, Hillsdale College, James Madison Institute, National Rifle Association, and Project 21, to name a few.
Significance
  • A recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court maintaining that presidents enjoyed broad immunity from prosecution for their actions while in office has raised concerns of abuse of power.
  • With Project 2025 recommending higher presidential authority, politicising bureaucracy and make sweeping policy changes without Congressional approval, many fear that such changes, if implemented under a second term Trump administration, would be dangerous for the U.S.
Source- The Hindu

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