Project 2025’s Impact on Middle and Lower-Income Earners

 

Project 2025, led by the Heritage Foundation and supported by over 100 conservative organizations, aims to implement a comprehensive right-wing agenda through the executive branch, bypassing the need for new legislation. This project is designed to support a future conservative administration (read, Donald Trump), in enacting rapid and significant policy changes.

Before we get too far along into this examination, we need to make one thing clear about this 944 page downloadable PDF file from the Heritage Foundation: despite Trump’s claims to the contrary, his ties to the mandate are close and unmistakable. (Hillyard & Marguez, 2024.).

The document outlines a planned takeover of the Federal Government from the executive office downward.  

For lower and middle-class Americans, the implications of Project 2025 are substantial and potentially harmful. The proposed changes include:

1. Economic Impact: Project 2025 plans to cut overtime protections for millions of workers, which would reduce their take-home pay. It also aims to stop efforts to lower prescription drug prices and limit access to food assistance programs, affecting over 40 million people who rely on this support monthly. Additionally, it could eliminate programs like Head Start, which provides early education to over a million children annually. (CAP ,2024). (Democracy Forward, 2023.). (Accountable, 2024).

2. Social Safety Nets: The project proposes to cut various social safety net programs, including those established by the American Rescue Plan, which have created or saved hundreds of thousands of jobs. There are also plans to push more people from Medicare into less favorable private options and restrict access to reproductive health care and services. (Democracy Forward, 2024).

3. Civil Rights: Project 2025 includes measures to roll back civil rights protections, targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, and restricting LGBTQ+ rights in health care, education, and workplaces. This rollback could lead to increased discrimination and reduced protections for vulnerable communities. (Democracy Forward, 2024.). (Accountable, 2024).

4. Government and Democracy: A key aspect of Project 2025 is to consolidate power within the executive branch, reducing checks and balances. Critics argue that this approach mirrors authoritarian regimes and poses a threat to personal freedoms and democratic norms. The project’s policies are broadly unpopular, with many Americans opposing its economic and social agendas. (Accountable, 2024).

Project 2025 represents a significant shift towards more conservative policies that could negatively impact lower and middle-class Americans' financial stability, healthcare access, and civil rights.

Full Disclosure: This post was written using artificial intelligence, however claims made were fact-checked for accuracy and backed up using the references below and throughout.

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References:

Hillyard & Marguez. (2024). Trump disavows Project 2025. Retrieved July 13, 2024, from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/project-2025-trump-heritage-foundation-what-know-rcna161338

Center for American Progress (July 8, 2024). Project 2025, the plan to seize power. Retrieved from https://www.americanprogress.org/article/project-2025-the-plan-to-seize-power-by-gutting-americas-system-of-checks-and-balances

Democracy Forward. (2023). The people’s guide to project 2025. Retrieved July 13, 2024, from https://democracyforward.org/the-peoples-guide-to-project-2025/

Accountable (July 9, 2024). New poll Americans find project 2025 as an authoritarian power grab. Retrieved July 13, 2024, from https://accountable.us/new-poll-americans-see-project-2025-as-authoritarian-power-grab/

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