25 Things to KNow About Project 2025

MAGA’s Fascist Playbook for a New Trump Term

1. Project 2025 is a 900-page playbook for Republicans next year if they gain power, and it’s focused on attacking our rights, giving handouts to billionaires and corporations, and undermining your vote.

2. Project 2025 would ban public-sector unions and allow states to ban labor unions entirely, ending your right to organize in the workplace.

3. Government services that keep us safe would be gone, including basics like weather alerts that warn us of dangerous storms and clean air and water programs.

4. Trump’s Project 2025 would ban medication abortion, effectively ending access to abortion for millions of Americans. 

5. The plan says that any books, movies, and TV shows that include LGBTQ+ content or characters are pornographic.

6. It calls for a total and complete ban on porn.

7. They plan to dissolve the Department of Education entirely and end enforcement of laws guaranteeing special education programs for students.

8. Project 2025 strips protections away from women and LGBTQ people in education and the workplace, putting millions at risk of targeting and worse.

9. Project 2025 gives states the right to ignore overtime, minimum wage, and child labor laws.

10. It would end all student loan forgiveness programs, including for public service, and some folks would see their loan payments double.

11. Project 2025 eliminates laws that protect against racial discrimination in housing, the labor market, and schools, ending protections that have been in place for decades.

12. The MAGA plan wants to make you pay new taxes on your employer-provided health insurance coverage and sharply raises taxes on middle-class working families.

13. Project 2025 strips away access to sex education for students, instead instructing federal programs to teach abstinence-only approaches.

14. Project 2025 implements what’s called the ‘unitary executive’ model – it puts the entire government, all three branches, under the control of one person: the President.

15. Social Security, Medicare, and nutrition assistance programs are all targeted for big cuts or elimination.

16. They want to get rid of price caps on life-saving drugs like insulin and asthma inhalers.

17. Project 2025 calls for cutting or eliminating social safety net programs, raising taxes on the middle class, and giving huge tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy.

18. Under Project 2025’s plan, Trump would have the legal right to fire any civil servant or government employee who he thought wasn’t sufficiently loyal to MAGA. 

19. Adoption and foster care agencies would be legally allowed to discriminate against gay or non-Christian families looking to adopt.

20. They want to eliminate the Head Start program, which serves over a million families annually.

21. Project 2025 calls for raising the eligibility age for Social Security, effectively reducing benefits by tens of thousands of dollars per person.

22. They want to end oil and gas drilling restrictions, including on our public lands.

23. Project 2025’s plan would eliminate HIPAA privacy protections for abortion, helping creepy Republican zealots in anti-abortion states to track and target those who leave the state to access care.

24. There’s a huge overlap between Trump staffers and the creators and co-sponsors of the plan – CNN has identified over 140 different people who worked for Trump and also played a role in creating or endorsing the transition plan.

25. Trump has repeatedly praised both the Heritage Foundation and the authors of the Project 2025 playbook and said that “they’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do” if he’s re-elected.