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Do you bear in mind how Donald Trump claimed that he’d by no means even heard of Venture 2025? Do you bear in mind how loudly and vehemently he denied the accusations, pretending that they have been fully ridiculous and that they have been full fabrications and false assaults?
I do.
I bear in mind writing how we knew Trump’s dedication to Venture 2025 as a result of he’d already carried the right-wing’s water as soon as with Venture 2017 and its proposals to repeal Obamacare, minimize the Non permanent Help for Needy Households (TANF) Program, remove scholar debt forgiveness, minimize catastrophe reduction funding, remove the Social Safety Belief Fund and extra whereas creating new tax cuts for the wealthy. I wrote how Trump had carried out greater than 60% of its suggestions throughout his first yr in workplace and the way we might count on the identical with Venture 2025.
Effectively, right here we’re. It’s only a month into the brand new Trump administration and he’s already carried out a 3rd of Venture 2025.
Trump’s orders to drag out of the Paris Local weather Accords, remove our inexperienced vitality and drill within the Alaskan wilderness have been all Venture 2025 suggestions. His assaults on federal staff are straight out of the Venture 2025 playbook. Leaving the World Well being Group and reducing USAID have been Venture 2025 proposals earlier than they have been Trump headlines. Venture 2025 argued for utilizing America’s army as an anti-immigration pressure, and on his first day, Trump signed an government order to deploy the Nationwide Guard on the southern border and suspended the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.
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From attacking range applications to ignoring federal judges, Trump’s dedication to the Venture 2025 agenda is so full, he’s even appointed two of its prime authors, Russell Vought and Brendan Carr, to run the Workplace of Administration and Finances and the Federal Communications Fee.
A lot for “I by no means learn it” and “I don’t know who’s behind it.”
So, what’s subsequent? Effectively, Venture 2025 requires eliminating FEMA, bypassing Congress, filling the FBI with brokers loyal to Trump as an alternative of the Structure and invoking martial legislation. That being stated, Venture 2025 doesn’t have any actual technique to curb inflation, elevate wages or decrease the price of groceries. Possibly that explains why the value of eggs retains going up however Trump hasn’t completed something about it. It’s simply not within the script.
Antjuan Seawright is a Democratic political strategist, founder and CEO of Blueprint Technique LLC and a senior visiting fellow at Third Method. Observe him on X, previously referred to as Twitter @antjuansea.
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