Project 2025 if Trump were to win

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

November 20, 2024
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
NOV 21

Remember how American voters so hated Project 2025, the playbook for a second Trump term written by the Heritage Foundation and other right-wing institutions, that Trump said he had nothing to do with it, and then one of its key architects, Russell Vought, told undercover filmmakers that Trump was only running away from the project as political cover?

It appears Vought was right and the story that Trump had nothing to do with Project 2025 was, indeed, just political cover. Ed O’Keefe and Major Garrett of CBS News reported today that two sources close to the Trump transition team have told them that they expect Trump to name Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

Vought wrote the section of Project 2025 that covers the presidency, calling for “aggressive use of the vast powers of the executive branch” to “bend or break the bureaucracy to the presidential will” and identifying the OMB as the means of enforcing the president’s agenda. Vought was Trump’s OMB director during the end of his first term and tried to remove the civil service protections that have been in place since 1883 to protect federal workers from being fired for political reasons. That plan, known as Schedule F, would have affected about 88% of the federal workforce.

One of the first things Biden did when he took office was to rescind Trump’s executive order making that shift.

Like that earlier attempt, Project 2025 leans heavily on the idea that “personnel is policy,” and that idea illuminates the choices the Trump team is making. Trump has refused to sign the official documents required by the 2022 Presidential Transition Act. Those documents mandate ethics commitments and require the incoming president to disclose private donations. They also limit those donations. Without the paperwork, Trump appointees cannot start the process of getting security clearances through the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the team says it is planning to do its own vetting of its candidates instead.

Claiming they have a mandate, Trump’s people have said they are launching “a hostile takeover” of the American government “on behalf of the American people.” But as voting numbers continue to come in, Trump’s majority has fallen below 50% of voters, meaning that more voters chose someone else than chose Trump on November 5. These results are far from being in “mandate” territory

That sounds terrific!!! Vought will do a great job Thank you for sharing!!!

[Anonymous]

Trump is going to make the Handmaid’s Tale a reality for every woman in America!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

November 20, 2024
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
NOV 21

Remember how American voters so hated Project 2025, the playbook for a second Trump term written by the Heritage Foundation and other right-wing institutions, that Trump said he had nothing to do with it, and then one of its key architects, Russell Vought, told undercover filmmakers that Trump was only running away from the project as political cover?

It appears Vought was right and the story that Trump had nothing to do with Project 2025 was, indeed, just political cover. Ed O’Keefe and Major Garrett of CBS News reported today that two sources close to the Trump transition team have told them that they expect Trump to name Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

Vought wrote the section of Project 2025 that covers the presidency, calling for “aggressive use of the vast powers of the executive branch” to “bend or break the bureaucracy to the presidential will” and identifying the OMB as the means of enforcing the president’s agenda. Vought was Trump’s OMB director during the end of his first term and tried to remove the civil service protections that have been in place since 1883 to protect federal workers from being fired for political reasons. That plan, known as Schedule F, would have affected about 88% of the federal workforce.

One of the first things Biden did when he took office was to rescind Trump’s executive order making that shift.

Like that earlier attempt, Project 2025 leans heavily on the idea that “personnel is policy,” and that idea illuminates the choices the Trump team is making. Trump has refused to sign the official documents required by the 2022 Presidential Transition Act. Those documents mandate ethics commitments and require the incoming president to disclose private donations. They also limit those donations. Without the paperwork, Trump appointees cannot start the process of getting security clearances through the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the team says it is planning to do its own vetting of its candidates instead.

Claiming they have a mandate, Trump’s people have said they are launching “a hostile takeover” of the American government “on behalf of the American people.” But as voting numbers continue to come in, Trump’s majority has fallen below 50% of voters, meaning that more voters chose someone else than chose Trump on November 5. These results are far from being in “mandate” territory

That sounds terrific!!! Vought will do a great job Thank you for sharing!!!

Glad you, Putin, and MAGA extremists are delighted with this march towards fascism …

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump is going to make the Handmaid’s Tale a reality for every woman in America!

I was just thinking about this clip

[Anonymous]

Actually, this is more accurate

[Anonymous]

Unions are going to be broken. I am here for all those Trumpy teamsters who were so happy about their union opposing Harris. they will lose overtime and eventually lose their jobs to autonomous trucks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unions are going to be broken. I am here for all those Trumpy teamsters who were so happy about their union opposing Harris. they will lose overtime and eventually lose their jobs to autonomous trucks.

First showdown, the dock strike.

Also, can't wait for SOB to lose his shirt.

[Anonymous]

Well, apparently Trump lied.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually, this is more accurate

Exactly that, and be sure of it happening by the end of January 2025.

[Anonymous]

It’s truly disturbing. With all its flaws America has been a symbol of democracy and Trump, and every person that voted him in, have marred that

[Anonymous]

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2024/11/trump-tap-schedule-f-architect-promising-widespread-federal-layoffs-head-omb/401228/

Think of the people who can be let go:
-doctors at NIH
-NOAA and FEMA
-Park service rangers
-food safety experts
-drug testers and researchers
-traffic engineers
-all of the people in development like dams and electric plants who support third world countries
-health experts
-diplomats
-air traffic controllers
-port supervisors

The brain drain in the government will bring our country to a halt...which of course, is the point. My question...how does this help the average american voter who supported Trump?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2024/11/trump-tap-schedule-f-architect-promising-widespread-federal-layoffs-head-omb/401228/

Think of the people who can be let go:
-doctors at NIH
-NOAA and FEMA
-Park service rangers
-food safety experts
-drug testers and researchers
-traffic engineers
-all of the people in development like dams and electric plants who support third world countries
-health experts
-diplomats
-air traffic controllers
-port supervisors

The brain drain in the government will bring our country to a halt...which of course, is the point. My question...how does this help the average american voter who supported Trump?

They were not voting on facts/logic.

[Anonymous]

Looks like the Trump administration will be using the project 25 personnel database after all:

Trump Looks to Project 2025 for Staffing Help

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team “is turning to Project 2025 to help staff the next administration,” NBC News reports.

“Already, transition officials are taking suggestions for potential hires from the extensive personnel database created by Project 2025.

“While Project 2025’s massive book of conservative policy recommendations received most of the attention from Democrats, a central part of the effort was putting together a database that officials had framed as a conservative LinkedIn to help staff an incoming Republican administration.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like the Trump administration will be using the project 25 personnel database after all:

Trump Looks to Project 2025 for Staffing Help

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team “is turning to Project 2025 to help staff the next administration,” NBC News reports.

“Already, transition officials are taking suggestions for potential hires from the extensive personnel database created by Project 2025.

“While Project 2025’s massive book of conservative policy recommendations received most of the attention from Democrats, a central part of the effort was putting together a database that officials had framed as a conservative LinkedIn to help staff an incoming Republican administration.”

Of course it is.

But where are the self-righteous posters who kept insisting that Trump had nothing to do with project 2025?

[Anonymous]

Having worked for a Trump appointee in the last administration, all I can do is offer thoughts and prayers for what is to come.