By Ashlee Banks
Special to the AFRO
Congressional Democrats warn that if former President Donald Trump is reelected, he will enact the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, also known as Project 2025.
(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
The Heritage Foundation created a multi-million-dollar initiative that aims to promote right-wing and conservative policy to reshape the U.S. federal government. It operates as a blueprint to help Trump ease back into the White House. The roadmap would ensure that within the first 180 days that Trump is in office, he will reorganize government agencies to fit his conservative vision, for example, eliminating both the Department of Education and the Department of Justice. Project 2025 would also replace current federal employees with Trump loyalists to ensure Trump-led policies are enacted into law.
In recent months U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) has been vocal about the risks of this initiative.
“Project 2025 is nothing but a White supremacist manifesto to how they can delete anybody that ain’t old, White and male,” said the Texas lawmaker. “It’s about attacking diversity, equity and inclusion. It’s about attacking those that don’t want to bow down to the orange Jesus and decide that they’re going to be his loyalists and do whatever they want him to do.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said that Project 2025 is “dangerous.”
“ dastardly and diabolical,” said Jeffries. “It will end American life as we know it, period, full stop.”
However, House Republicans believe that congressional Democrats are engaging in political theater by speaking out against the Heritage Foundation’s initiative.
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said that Biden is a bigger “threat” to the U.S. than Project 2025.
“I think the biggest concern if President Biden stays in office is that he’s going to continue to keep our borders ripped wide open,” said Greene. “Inflation is going to continue to be high where people can can hardly afford to even have hope of buying a home. Senior citizens in my district are having to choose between paying rent and being able to afford their medications.”
The conservative lawmaker added, “I think the true threat to democracy is President Biden.”
U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) said voters should not be concerned with Project 2025.
“This is the typical gaslighting that happens when you start getting close to campaigns,” said Donalds. “Every think tank organization has a plan or writes out policy sets for a myriad of things to happen here on Capitol Hill or throughout the executive branch. Heritage Foundation is no different than that. But, that doesn’t mean that’s what the Trump administration is going to do.”
He added that Trump will follow the political plan set forth by the Republican National Convention, not the Heritage Foundation.
“ talks about what he’s gonna do, and what the American people should take stock in is that when President Trump says he’s going to do something he does it,” added Donalds.
In recent weeks, Trump has made efforts to distance himself from Project 2025, despite Democratic efforts to link him to the conservative initiative.
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