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Media outlets are now starting to pay more attention to the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, which would radically reshape the country in many ways. Donald Trump claims he knows nothing about it. He's lying. Many of his closest advisers have been helping write the 900-page document. It is not a pie-in-the-sky plan. It is a concrete plan that a Republican Congress and president could enact into a series of laws to completely change the country to be in line with conservatives' wishes. One of the biggest items is concentrating power in the president by taking it away from Congress and the federal agencies and replacing tens of thousands of federal civil servants with presidential appointees. It would also ban mifepristone and forbid people from traveling from states where abortion is illegal to states where it is legal. But the plan also gets into the weeds, like making the creation or distribution of pornography a felony. And it suggests defining "pornography" as more than dirty photos and movies—for example, discussions of transgenderism or homosexuality could be considered pornography. We better get a jump on this, and register Electoral-Vote.xxx before someone else does.
One of the many areas the plan addresses is public education. The plan would devastate it. Among other proposals, Project 2025 would abolish the U.S. Department of Education, student loans would be privatized, and some parents' views would be prioritized over educators' views. It would also create and fund alternatives to the public schools, including charter schools, religious schools, and other schools, which would take funds away from, and compete with, public schools. This would be done by giving parents education vouchers that they could spend at the school of their choice. It would also end "wasteful" programs, like providing kids with free breakfasts and lunches. The long-term goal is to get the federal government out of the education business altogether. It would be up to the states, and, where the states approved, the local government.
The plan would take an axe to Title I, which funds schools in low-income areas. For 10 years, the funds would be given to states as block grants, with no strings attached. If a state wanted to use the money to build tennis courts and hockey rinks at schools in wealthy areas, that would be up to them. After 10 years, the federal funding would stop altogether. (V)