Former President Donald Trump denies ties to extremist government blueprint project 2025, A policy roadmap for the second Trump administration drafted by a consortium of conservative organizations led by the Heritage Foundation. BNew data shows he was a huge fan of the policies of far-right groups when he first entered the White House.
An analysis by the American Bridge 21st Century Super PAC identified 87 policies proposed by the Heritage Foundation that President Trump adopted. In 2018, conservative think tanks announced President Trump has already accepted and implemented 64% of the proposals.
“President Trump is a conservative president. He has adopted and advanced many of these recommendations and accomplished many of them,” said Heritage Foundation Director Thomas Binion. he told Fox Business. “Yes, they are conservative and yes, they are good for the country,” he added.
Heritage Foundation representatives like to brag about how they successfully persuaded Mr. Trump. withdraw from the Paris climate agreementabolish net neutralityincreases military spending when talking about the group’s victories during the Trump administration. Here are 11 more of their questionable wins.
1. President Trump cut child nutrition programs.
In the group’s 2018 Blueprint for Balance, the Heritage Foundation Recommended President Trump says he will “defund national school lunch standards and community eligibility requirements.”
The Trump administration’s 2019 budget proposal calls for $1.7 billion in cuts to federal child nutrition programs over 10 years. According to Food Research Activity CenterThis reduction “reduces the number of schools eligible to implement the Community Eligibility Provision. It significantly reduces the administrative work of administering school nutrition programs for high-poverty schools and school districts, This is a highly successful option that increases student participation in lunch.”
2. Trump banned transgender people from the military.
The Heritage Foundation’s Blueprint for the New Administration: The President’s Priorities states that the military should “shape military personnel policy based on military readiness, not societal challenges.” “The President should rescind the transgender policy decision announced on June 30, 2016, and reinstate previous policies allowing individuals with gender dysphoria to serve in office,” the document reads. It’s dark.
In April 2019, President Trump created a huge controversy by banning transgender people from serving in the military. confusion and chaos.
“The current ban prohibits conversion of military recruits and also allows the military to discharge currently serving soldiers if they do not indicate their birth gender,” Axios said. reported. “This policy battle began before President Trump took office.”
3. President Trump eliminated subsidies to prevent violence against women.
In its 2017 Blueprint, the Heritage Foundation prompted The president has decided to cut funding for a federal program that helps 7 million women a year escape domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
“Recommendation: Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Grants,” the Heritage Foundation wrote. “This proposal will save $83 million in fiscal year 2018.”
President Trump’s budget proposal for 2016-2017 Contains Reduce such subsidies by $2 million.
“These programs provide technical support and training to community groups serving victims; provide cooperation between law enforcement and justice agencies; assist indigenous and tribal communities affected by violence; Address sexual assault on college campuses. Ensure access to transitional housing. Identify and prevent gender bias. provide access to a hotline,” the Center for American Progress wrote. “While women of all backgrounds can experience violence, low-income women and women of color are more likely to experience violence. disproportionately Affected. “
This aligns with new Project 2025 goals, including dissolving the Gender Policy Council established by President Joe Biden. This bill proposes to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion programs across the federal government and includes We are working to remove terms such as consideration and abortion from all federal rules and regulations. , reproductive health, reproductive rights.
4. Trump cut the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department.
At the request of the Heritage Foundation, President Trump cut funding to the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division; Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights. President Trump’s 2017 budget planned to eliminate 10% of the workforce from critical jobs. civil rights Offices throughout the federal government.
This is in line with the Project 2025 blueprint; The Justice Department’s investigation will be transferred from the Civil Rights Division to the Criminal Division.
“Otherwise, voter registration fraud and illegal ballot corrections will remain federal election violations that will never be properly investigated or prosecuted,” Project 2025 states.
5. President Trump rescinded Obama-era orders to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prohibited any government agency from regulating emissions.
In its 2016 “Blueprint for a New Administration: The President’s Priorities,” the Heritage Foundation suggested that President Trump “rescind the executive order.” [Obama administration’s] Executive orders on global warming and green energy will be mandatory for federal agencies. ” The 2017 blueprint recommended that “Congress should prohibit any agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.” This proposal is not expected to result in any reductions in 2018. ”
Shortly after Trump took office in 2017, his administration removed the climate change page from the White House website, saying it would “refocus the EPA on its essential mission of protecting the environment” and “make America First Energy.” A new page has been published suggesting the plan. our air and water,” he suggested, abandoning greenhouse gas regulations.
On March 28, 2017, President Trump canceled President Barack Obama’s executive order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce energy use by federal agencies.
Project 2025 proposes eliminating nearly all federal regulations on carbon emissions. Experts say this will wreak havoc on an already fragile climate that is at a tipping point.
6. President Trump weakened some efficiency standards for home appliances.
Heritage Foundation 2016 Blueprint said“We urge Congress to refrain from developing new energy efficiency standards for home appliances and repeal the energy conservation standards set forth in the Energy Policy and Conservation Act.”
According to a New York Times analysis, over the course of the Trump administration, weakened standards Dishwashers, water heaters, washers and dryers, and other household appliances that use environmentally friendly “energy-saving thresholds” are eligible.
7. President Trump ended cost-sharing relief payments to Affordable Care Act recipients.
According to the Heritage Foundation, Blueprint for 2016“The new president, through the Treasury Department, should direct the IRS to immediately suspend Obamacare cost-sharing payments in accordance with the law.”
Cost-sharing benefits refer to grants and subsidies for out-of-pocket expenses. medical expenses. These include financial assistance such as copays, deductibles, and out-of-pocket maximums for doctor visits. The lower your income, the more you qualify for cost-sharing benefits.
President Trump repealed the ACA’s cost-sharing program in 2017.
CNBC called This is a bombshell statement that could see premiums skyrocket and many insurers exit the market.The decision to end billions of dollars’ worth of so-called cost-sharing reduction payments comes after President The decision came after months of threats.
8. Trump cut hundreds of millions of dollars in spending to the United Nations relief agency for Palestinian refugees.
The Heritage Foundation’s 2018 Blueprint for Balance states that “restoring the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to its original purpose would save $179 million in fiscal year 2018.” It is being
In 2018, the Trump administration withheld $65 million of $120 million in aid contributions to UNRWA. According to daily news egyptState Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert made it clear that the Trump administration “felt that other countries should contribute more significantly to UNRWA and ‘do their best to provide additional funding.'”
9. The Trump administration withdrew from the World Health Organization during the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the Heritage Foundation’s 2016 Blueprint for a New Administration: Presidential Priorities, the organization prompted President Trump will “review U.S. participation in all international organizations.”
In 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, President Trump abandoned the World Health Organization.
“The Trump administration has formally notified the United Nations that the United States will withdraw from the World Health Organization.” I wrote The New York Times reported that “the move would cut off one of the biggest sources of funding from the main World Health Organization in the midst of a pandemic.”
This left the United States with the worst pandemic response of any developed democracy, resulting in mass casualties and forcing it to withdraw. millions of Americans with disabilities After that.
10. The Trump administration sought to cut funding to PBS and NPR.
a 2018 The Balance Blueprint recommendation “removes federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). This proposal would save $486 million in fiscal year 2018.”
of new york times According to a 2017 report, “The White House Budget Office has created a target list of programs that President Trump could eliminate to reduce domestic spending, including the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Legal Services Association, AmeriCorps, It also includes long-standing conservative targets such as the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities. ”
trump went after them Also In 2018.
project 2025 It proposes ending government funding for nonpartisan media funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, such as National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service.
11. President Trump’s budget prohibited federal funding to organizations that provide abortion care.
According to the Heritage Foundation’s Blueprint for the New Administration, the Trump administration is being asked to “decouple funding for women’s health and abortion. We should help states maintain the integrity of their Medicaid systems by clarifying their authority to disqualify them from receiving reimbursement.”
President Trump’s 2021 budget “Federal funds protect the rights to life and conscience. This budget prioritizes the value of human life by ensuring that federal funds do not support abortion. The budget also protects conscience rights, prohibits coercion in health care, and prohibits private parties from receiving federal funding, such as Title X family planning and Medicaid programs. These protections ensure that the government continues to protect rights of conscience and freedom of religion.”
This again reminds me of Project 2025. The Reproductive Rights Center believes that implementing the plan’s recommendations will “Destroying abortion care” By ending medication abortions, denying lifesaving abortion care, prosecuting doctors, harassing patients, and building surveillance systems.
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