Republicans have tried to repeal FDR’s New Deal for over 90 years, and they think that now is the time to privatize Social Security, replace Medicare with for-profit Medicare Advantage, and eliminate benefits earned by the veterans who keep our country safe.
Despite Donald Trump’s claim that he has nothing to do with the project, that he’s “never read it,” “knows nothing about it,” “hasn’t heard of the people behind it,” the Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership was sponsored, written, and promoted by more than 240 people who were involved with, or part of, his administration—including six cabinet secretaries, former chief of staff Mark Meadows, top adviser Stephen Miller, and several lawyers who tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Trump knows nothing about a lot of things, but he knows ALL about Project 2025!
Many newspapers, journals, and think tank reports have focused on different aspects of Project 2025. In the words of Rolling Stone magazine, its “… goals include disbanding federal agencies, privatizing others, and expanding presidential control over the executive branch. These proposals align closely with Trump’s official campaign plan, Agenda 47, which was recently adopted as the Republican Party’s national platform.”
Thus Trump’s attempts to distance himself from Project 2025 are a dishonest attempt to do damage control in his campaign to regain the presidency.
Social Security
For nearly 40 years it has been a Republican dream to place Social Security funds in the hands of Wall Street investors. In an echo of previous doom-saying, Project 2025 ideologues insist that because not enough money is coming into the system, SS funds will run out in 15 or 20 years.
The rational solution, given the growth in population and national wealth, is to increase the money coming into the fund….
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