As with its original Reaganite mission, Heritage proposes again to take a meat axe to government in defense of privilege, but now with greater fear and urgency. Many critics of Project 2025 focus on specific initiatives, and predictions of damage to people, institutions, and Democracy itself. I propose to give you an overview of the intended damage in Heritage’s own words. Then we can prioritize them for GOTV purposes, our most immediate need, and discuss how to get the word out. Winning the Presidency and both Houses of Congress means that we can take all of this screaming as a guide for what we should do more of instead.
I suggest tackling gerrymandering and voter suppression (“election integrity” bogosity from the allied “Honest Elections Project”) with the greatest urgency, because all else depends on voting, but YMMV.
So here we go.
I cannot explain why Heritage makes no mention of the Social Security Administration in this version of its plan, but these Wrong-Wingers make no secret of their plan to raise the retirement age to 70 and otherwise steal from workers who paid into the system all their working lives.
I have not sorted these. They are in the order they turned up in searching the plan document, starting with The Promise to America chapter, and then the word “abolish”. Everything in this list is a direct quotation from the Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership Presidential Transition Project document.
And, of course, cut taxes and increase military spending.
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Abolishing the existing Office of Domestic Climate Policy.
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Abolishing the Gender Policy Council would eliminate central promotion of abortion (“health services”); comprehensive sexuality education (“education”); and the new woke gender ideology, which has as a principal tenet “gender affirming care” and “sex-change” surgeries on minors.
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Eliminate Marxist indoctrination and divisive critical race theory programs and abolish newly established diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and staff.
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Dismantle the administrative state
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The federal Department of Education should be eliminated.
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End the practice of acting like the federal student loan portfolio is a campaign fund to curry political support and votes.
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The new Administration must end abuses in the loan forgiveness programs.
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Delete the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation,and piece of legislation that exists.
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Pornography should be outlawed.
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A conservative President must move swiftly to do away with these vast abuses of presidential power and remove the career and political bureaucrats who fuel it.
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Fire supposedly “un-fireable” federal bureaucrats;
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Shutter wasteful and corrupt bureaus and offices;
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Muzzle woke propaganda at every level of government;
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End the Left’s social experimentation with the military.
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FBI’s separate Office of General Counsel (with “approximately 300 attorneys”), separate Office of Legislative Affairs, and separate Office of Public Affairs should all be abolished.
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NIH Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, which pushes such unlawful actions, should be abolished.
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So-called evidence-based lists should be abolished.
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Abolish the Biological Resources Division of the U. S. Geological Survey
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Eliminating “the destructive Trump–Biden tariffs”.
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“Effectively abolish” the Federal Reserve and replace it with “free banking,” whereby “neither interest rates nor the supply of money” would be “controlled by government.” Free banking would produce a “stable and sound” currency and a “strong”financial system, “while allowing lending to flourish.”
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The Department of Commerce—Thus,in the 1990s, calls emerged to abolish the department and either spinoff, zero-out, or consolidate its functions among other entities.
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Advisory Committees—Upon entering office, all such committees should be reviewed regarding whether they are required by statute and abolished if they are not.
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Abolish the National Advisory Committee and reevaluate all other committees.—The Census Bureau National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations (NAC) was established by the Obama Administration in 2012 and rechartered by the Biden Administration in 2022. The committee is a hotbed for left-wing activists intent upon injecting racial and social-justice theory into the governing philosophy of the Census Bureau. The NAC should immediately be abolished by the incoming Administration.
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The Economic Development Administration—Abolish EDA and reallocate its funding to other overlapping federal grant programs.
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The Export–Import Bank should be abolished.
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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) should be abolished.
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Offices at financial regulators that promote racist policies (usually in the name of “diversity, equity, and inclusion”) should be abolished, and regulations that require appointments on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex, or sexual orientation should be eliminated. Equal protection of the law, equal opportunity, and individual merit should govern regulatory decisions.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—Congress should abolish the CFPB.
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Eliminate critical race theory and other radical ideologies in executive agencies.
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The President should eliminate the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC), which is cochaired by the OSTP, OMB, and CEA, and by executive order should end the use of SCC analysis.
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Eliminate all administrative proceedings (APs) within the SEC except for stop orders related to defective registration statements.
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Significantly reduce or eliminate the issuance of visas to Chinese students or researchers to prevent espionage and information harvesting.
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Compel the closure of all Confucius Institutes in the U. S., which serve as propaganda arms of the CCP.
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Small Business Administration—President Ronald Reagan cut the SBA’s budget by more than 30 percent, and his annual budgets regularly proposed to eliminate the agency altogether.
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Eliminate “full employment” from the Fed’s mandate, requiring it to focus on price stability alone.
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Congress should eliminate the U. S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA).
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The next Administration should eliminate the Climate Hub Office and withdraw from climate change agreements that are inimical to the prosperity of the United States.
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The Administration should eliminate the 25-member Treasury Advisory Committee on Racial Equity.
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Under the Biden Administration, the Treasury Department has appointed a Counselor for Racial Equity, established an Advisory Committee on Racial Equity, and created an office for Diversity, Equity,Inclusion, and Accessibility. All these should be eliminated.
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Treasury plays a role in funding the conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It should work to end the conservatorships and move toward privatization of these massive housing finance agencies. This would restore a sustainable housing finance market with a robust private mortgage market that does not rely on explicit or implicit taxpayer guarantees.
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FannieMae and Freddie Mac (both GSEs) must he wound down in an orderly manner.
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The Common Securitization Platform should be privatized and broadly available.
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The Ensuring Accurate and Complete Abortion Data Reporting Act of 2023 would amend title XIX of the Social Security Act and Public Health Service Act to improve the CDC’s abortion reporting mechanisms by requiring states, as a condition of federal Medicaid payments for family planning services, to report streamlined variables in a timely manner.
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The CDC should immediately end its collection of data on gender identity, which legitimizes the unscientific notion that men can become women (and vice versa) and encourages the phenomenon of ever-multiplying subjective identities.
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The Treasury should work with Congress to simplify the tax code by enacting a simple two-rate individual tax system of 15 percent and 30 percent that eliminates most deductions, credits and exclusions. The 30 percent bracket should begin at or near the Social Security wage base to ensure the combined income and payroll tax structure acts as a nearly flat tax on wage income beyond the standard deduction. The corporate income tax rate should be reduced to 18 percent. The corporate income tax is the most damaging tax in the U.S. tax system, and its primary economic burden falls on workers because capital is more mobile than labor.
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Capital gains and qualified dividends should be taxed at 15 percent. Thus, the combined corporate income tax combined with the capital gains or qualified dividends tax rate would be roughly equal to the top individual income tax rate.18 The system should allow immediate expensing for capital expenditures and index capital gains taxes for inflation.
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Under the Biden Administration, the Treasury Department has appointed a Counselor for Racial Equity, established an Advisory Committee on Racial Equity, and created an office for Diversity, Equity,Inclusion, and Accessibility. All these should be eliminated.
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The avowed purpose of these [“Equity”] initiatives is to implement policies that deliberately favor some races or ethnicities over others. The casual acceptance and rapid spread of racist policy making in the federal government must be forcefully opposed and reversed. The next conservative Administration should take affirmative steps to expose and eradicate the practice of critical race theory and diversity.
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The Administration should eliminate the 25-member Treasury Advisory Committee on Racial Equity.
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The next conservative Administration should withdraw the U.S. from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change74 and the Paris Agreement.
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Elected officials must clamp down on the Fed’s incorporation of environmental, social, and governance factors into its mandate.
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Illegal immigration should be ended, not mitigated.
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The next Administration should abandon this change redefining “sex”to mean “sexual orientation and gender identity” in Title IX immediately across all departments.
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The National Security Council “should rigorously review all general and flag officer promotions to prioritize the core roles and responsibilities of the military over social engineering and non-defense related matters, including climate change, critical race theory, manufactured extremism, and other polarizing policies that weaken our armed forces and discourage our nation’s finest men and women from enlisting.”
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Divest [Marine Corps] systems to implement the Force Design 2030 transformation
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Eliminate the “weaponization” by select Members of Congress that has prevented billions of dollars of arms sales from moving into formal congressional notification.
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Eliminate Marxist indoctrination and divisive critical race theory programs and abolish newly established diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and staff.
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Reduce the number of generals.
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End USCYBERCOM’s participation in federal efforts to “fortify” U.S. elections to eliminate the perception that DOD is engaging in partisan politics.
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Break the paradigm of cyber authorities held at the strategic level.
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Dismantle the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) be privatized.
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Reinstate servicemembers to active duty who were discharged for not receiving the COVID vaccine, restore their appropriate rank, and provide back pay.
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Stop using the Army as a test bed for social evolution
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Eliminate T and U visas. [trafficking in persons (T visa) and certain qualifying crimes (U visa)]
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Order ICE to stop closing out pending immigration cases and apply the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) as written by Congress.
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All ICE memoranda identifying “sensitive zones” where ICE personnel are prohibited from operating should be rescinded.
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Repeal Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations
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The diversity visa lottery should be repealed, chain migration should be ended
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End parole abuse
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Congress should eliminate the particular social group protected ground as vague and overbroad
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Congress should unequivocally authorize state and local law enforcement to participate in immigration and border security actions in compliance with Arizona v. United States.
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Restrict prosecutorial discretion to eliminate it as a “catch-all” excuse for limiting immigration enforcement.
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Review and repeal any internal agency memo that is inconsistent with the priorities described in this chapter.
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DHS should not be in the business of handing out federal tax dollars: These grants should be terminated.
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OGC should advise principals as to how DHS can execute its missions within the law instead of advising principals as to why they cannot execute regulations, policies, and programs.
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OPS should absorb a very small number of tactical intelligence professionals from I&A [Office of Intelligence and Analysis] as the rest of I&A is shut down.
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OIDO.The Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman should be eliminated.
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Ambassadors in countries where U. S. policy or posture would substantially change under the new Administration, as well as any who have evinced hostility toward the incoming Administration or its agenda, should be recalled immediately.
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The priority should be to put in place new ambassadors who support the President’s agenda among political appointees, foreign service officers, and civil service personnel, with no predetermined percentage among these categories. Political ambassadors with strong personal relationships with the President should be prioritized for key strategic posts such as Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United Nations, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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The Biden State Department not only approves but also enforces treaties that have not been ratified by the U. S. Senate. This practice must be thoroughly reviewed—and most likely jettisoned.
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strip the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) of taxpayer funding.
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The aid industry claims that climate change causes poverty, which is false…
USAID should cease its war on fossil fuels in the developing world and support the responsible management of oil and gas reserves as the quickest way to end wrenching poverty
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The next conservative Administration should immediately implement language on key policy topics as standard provisions in all grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts. These provisions should include language on implementing the Policy on Protecting Life [fetuses, or even fertilized ova] in Foreign Assistance, imposing conditions on funding to multilateral organizations, and increasing accountability and transparency.
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The Food and Nutrition Service that administers the food and nutrition programs would be eliminated.
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All other programs at OESE [Office of Elementary and Secondary Education] should be block-granted or eliminated.
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The new Administration must take immediate steps to rescind the new requirements and lessen the federal restrictions on charter schools.
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The new Administration must quickly move to rescind these changes, whichadd a new “nonbinary” sex category to OCR’S data collection
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endthe abuse of FSA’s loan forgiveness programs
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Allow States to Opt Out of Federal Education Programs.
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The DOE Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED); Office of State and Community Energy Programs; ARPA-E; Office of Grid Deployment (OGD); and DOE Loan Program should be eliminated or reformed.
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Eliminate carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) programs.
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Increase energy security and supply through fossil fuels.
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End the focus on climate change and green subsidies.
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Eliminate energy efficiency standards for appliances.
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Eliminate EERE [The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy].
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End grid planning and focus instead on reliability [code for more fossil carbon burning].
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GDO [TheGrid Deployment Office] should emphasize grid reliability, not renewables expansion.
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Eliminate GDO
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End DOE/GDO’s role in grid planning for the benefit of renewable developers.
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End market distortions and stop shifting technology and development risksto taxpayers.
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Government should not be picking winners and losers and 😂👉should not be subsidizing the private sector👈😂
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Eliminate OCED [Office of Clean Energy Demonstration].
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Should seek to sunset DOE’s loan authority through Congress and eventually eliminate the Loan Program Office.
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Eliminate ARPA-E.
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Eliminate the Clean Energy Corps
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Revise reserve margins. [But ignore the contributions of energy storage systems.]
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EIA forecasts should be based on current laws and regulations and should not be used to promote favored policies.
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Some think that EIA should be privatized.
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Support the responsible development of Alaska’s energy assets
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Restart Yucca Mountain.
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[Late additions] Reject ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
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Divest non-nuclear activities from NNSA laboratories
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Recognize the interdependence of electric generation and natural gas.
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Limit the impact of subsidized renewables on price formation. Subsidizedrenewable resources are undermining electric reliability.
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Congress should repeal subsidies for generation resources.
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Require renewable generators to provide intra-day backup by dispatchable on-demand generation so that bids by intermittent resources into RTOs equate fairly with far more valuable on-demand dispatchable resources; [because storage doesn’t count to them]
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Eliminate capacity markets where intermittent resources participate and instead establish “reliability” markets where dispatchable on-demand resources participate. [because storage doesn’t count to them]
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End undue discrimination that allows subsidized resources to distort price formation in RTOs. [Subsidized—like fossil fuels?]
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Socializing [grid expansion] costs is a form of subsidy for generators. Prevent socializing costs for customers who do not benefit [from reducing prices across the entire grid].
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FERCshould recommit itself to the NGA’s purpose of providing the American people with access to affordable and reliable natural gas. Limit its NGA decision-making on natural gas pipeline certificates to the question of whether there is a need for the natural gas. [There isn’t.]
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FERC should not use environmental issues like climate change as a reason to stop LNG projects. [Never mind that they are guaranteed to lose money, now that we have passed Peak Gas in the US and Europe.]
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Set clear radiation exposure and protection standards by eliminating ALARA (“as low as reasonably achievable”) as a regulatory principle and setting clear standards according to radiological risk and dose rather than arbitrary objectives. [There is no risk-free dose.]
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EPA’s structure and mission should be greatly circumscribed to reflect the principles of cooperative federalism and limited government.
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Use enforcement to ensure compliance, not to achieve extrastatutory objectives.
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Review the grants program to ensure that taxpayer funds go to organizations focused on tangible environmental improvements free from [Left-Wing, Soshulist] political affiliation. [Conservative entanglements are fine.]
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Reset science advisory boards to expand opportunities for a diversity of scientific [and pseudo-scientific] viewpoints free of potential [Soshulist] conflicts of interest.
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Day One Executive Order. To initiate the review and reorganization, a Day One executive order should be drafted for the incoming President with explicit language requiring reconsideration of the agency’s structure with reference to fulfilling its mission to create a better environmental tomorrow with clean air, safe water, healthy soil, and thriving communities. [See you in court.]
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Revise guidance documents that control regulations such as the social cost of carbon.
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Obey Congress’s direction in CAA § 32116 to “conduct continuing evaluations” of the employment and plant-closure effects of air regulations.
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To the extent that the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)18 remains in place,ensure to the maximum extent possible that grants and funding are provided to state regulatory entities and not to nonprofits.
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Remove any regulations or requirements that confer on third parties any authorities that have been provided to EPA, such as the oil and gas supplemental, which created a Super-Emitter Response Program that allows third parties to act as EPA enforcers.
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Regional haze rules should be revised to prevent subsequent “planning periods” from being abused to compel the shutdown of disfavored facilities.
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Review Biden-era regulations to ensure that they do not “overcontrol”upwind states in violation of the statute as construed by the U. S.Supreme Court.
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Reverse the program’s 2022 expansion beyond power plants.
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Remove the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) for any source category that is not currently being regulated.
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Repeal Biden Administration implementing regulations for the AIM Act that are unnecessarily stringent and costly.
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Refrain from granting petitions from opportunistic manufacturers to add new restrictions that further skew the market toward costlier refrigerants and equipment.
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Review the existing “ramp rate” for car standards to ensure that it is actually achievable. Include life cycle emissions of electric vehicles and consider all of their environmental impacts.
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Restore the position that California’s waiver applies only toCalifornia-specific issues like ground-level ozone, not global climate issues.
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Ensure that other states can adopt California’s standards only for traditional/criteria pollutants, not greenhouse gases.
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Stop the use of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to increase standards on airplanes.
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Reconsider the Cleaner Trucks Initiative to balance the goal of driving down emissions without creating significant costs or complex burdens on the industry.
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Restore the position that EPA cannot regulate a new pollutant from an already regulated source category without making predicate findings for that new pollutant.
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Revisitthe designation of PFAS chemicals as “hazardous substances”under CERCLA.
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Expand and fully stand up the Office of Mountains, Deserts and Plains to support innovative approaches to the cleaning up of abandoned mines. [Good]
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Eliminate the [EPA] Office of Emergency Management and reassign its functions.
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Ensure that decision-making is risk-based rather than defaulting to precautionary, hazard-based approaches like the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS).
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Ensure that risk evaluations and risk management rules presume that workplaces are following all OSHA requirements, including requirements for personal protective equipment (PPE).
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ESA reform for pesticides is necessary. When approving pesticides, FIFRA allows for cost-benefit balancing, recognizing that pesticides are effective precisely because they harm pests. However, the ESA does not allow for any consideration of the beneficial effects of pesticides.
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Notify Congress that EPA will not conduct any ongoing or planned science activity for which there is not clear and current congressional authorization.
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Call for the public to identify areas where EPA has inconsistently assessed risk, failed to use the best science, or participated in research misconduct.
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Eliminate the use of unauthorized regulatory inputs like the social cost of carbon, black box and proprietary models, and unrealistic climate scenarios, including those based on Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP)
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Suspend and review the activities of EPA advisory bodies, many of which have not been authorized by Congress or lack independence, balance, and geographic and viewpoint diversity. [Code for not enough Red State input]
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Retract delegations for key science and risk-assessment decisions from Assistant Administrators, regional offices, and career officials.
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Eliminate the use of Title 42 hiring authority that allows ORD to spend millions in taxpayer dollars for salaries of certain employees above the civil service scale.
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Announce plans to streamline and reform EPA’s poorly coordinated and managed laboratory structure.
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A top priority should be the immediate and consistent rejection of all EPAORD and science activities that have not been authorized by Congress.
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Several ORD offices and programs, many of which constitute unaccountable efforts to use scientific determinations to drive regulatory, enforcement, and legal decisions, should be eliminated.
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Key EPA advisory committees were purged of balanced perspectives, geographic diversity, important regulatory and private-sector experience, and state, local, and tribal expertise.
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EPA regulations lack relevant scientific perspectives, increasing the risks of economic fallout and a failure of cooperative federalism. EPA also has repeatedly disregarded legal requirements regarding the role of these advisory committees and the scope of scientific advice on key regulations.
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Instead of allowing these efforts to be misused for scaremongering risk communications and enforcement activities, EPA should embrace so-called citizen science and deputize the public to subject the agency’s science to greater scrutiny. [But see point 132, above.]
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[Second addendum] Shift responsibility for evaluating misconduct away from its Office of Scientific Integrity, which has been overseen by environmental activists, and toward an independent body.
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Work (including with Congress) to provide incentives similar to those under the False Claims Act for the public to identify scientific flaws and research misconduct, thereby saving taxpayers from having to bear the costs involved in expending unnecessary resources.
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Reject precautionary default models and uncertainty factors.
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EPA’s heavy reliance on default assumptions like its low-dose, linear non-threshold model bake orders of magnitude of risk into key regulatory inputs and drive flawed and opaque decisions.
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Prohibit peer review activities for unaccountable third parties that lack independence or application of these same principles to nongovernmental peer review bodies.
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Add teeth to long-standing executive orders, memoranda, recommenda-tions, and other policies to require that EPA regulations are based on transparent, reproducible science as well as that the data and publications resulting from taxpayer-funded activities are made immediately available to the public.
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Reject funds for programs that have not been authorized by Congress (like IRIS) as well as peer review activities that have not been authorized by Congress.
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Revisit and repeal or reform outdated environmental statutes. A high priority should be the repeal or reform of the Global Change Research Act of 1990, which has been misused for political purposes.
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Use the Congressional Review Act for Congress to disapprove of EPA regulations and other quasi-regulatory actions and prohibit “substantially similar” actions in the future.
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Repeal Inflation Reduction Act programs providing grants for environmental science activities.
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EPA grantmaking—discretionary and otherwise—is driven by ideology instead of need. As a result, grant funds produce little to no meaningful improvements in the environment and public health and instead fund questionably relevant projects at elite, private academic institutions that invariably produce radical environmental research.
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A more conservative EPA that aligns with the policies outlined in this chapter will lead to a better environmental future without unintended consequences.
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Improved transparency will serve as an important check to ensure that the agency’s mission is not distorted or co-opted for political gain.
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Make Medicare Advantage the default enrollment option. [Privatize.]
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Give beneficiaries direct control of how they spend Medicare dollars.[Privatize.]
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Repeal harmful health policies enacted under the Obama and Biden Administrations such as the Medicare Shared Savings Program and Inflation Reduction Act.
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Medicare Part D Reform. This “negotiation” program should be repealed.
- [Medicaid] Add targeted time limits or lifetime caps on benefits t disincentivize permanent dependence.
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Strengthen hospital price transparency.
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Two of the first actions of a pro-life Administration should be for HHS to withdraw the Medicaid guidance and for DOJ OLC to withdraw and disavow its interpretation of the Hyde Amendment.
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Prohibit Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funds.
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Prohibit abortion travel funding.
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Propose rulemaking to interpret the Medicaid statute to disqualify providers of elective abortion from the Medicaid program.
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Congress should pass the Protecting Life and Taxpayers Act, which would accomplish the goal of defunding abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood.
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Abortion is not health care, and states should be free to devise and implement programs that prioritize qualified providers that are not entangled with the abortion industry.
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Withdraw Medicaid funds for states that require abortion insurance or that discriminate in violation of the Weldon Amendment. The Weldon Amendment51 declares that no HHS funding may go to a state or local government that discriminates against pro-life health entities or insurers.
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HHS/CMS should withdraw appropriated funding, up to and including 10 percent of Medicaid funds, from states that require abortion insurance coverage.
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California has announced that it will discriminate against pharmacies that do not carry chemical abortion drugs outside of California. California’s discrimination takes the form of cutting state contracts with such pharmacies and clearly violates the Weldon Amendment. The violation should likewise face the penalties discussed above.
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Rewrite the ACA abortion separate payment regulation.
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HHS should reinstate a Trump Administration regulation and enforce what the plain text of Section 1303 requires. That regulation should be further improved by requiring CMS to ensure that consumers pay truly separate charges for abortion coverage.
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Reverse distorted pro-abortion “interpretations” added to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.
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Audit Hyde Amendment compliance. HHS should undertake a full audit to determine compliance or noncompliance with the Hyde amendment and similar funding restrictions in HHS programs. This audit should include a full review of the Biden Administration’s post-Dobbs executive actions to promote abortion. It should also encompass a review of Medicaid managed care plans in pro-abortion states.
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CMS should repromulgate its 2016 decision that CMS could not issue a National Coverage Determination (NCD) regarding “gender reassignment surgery” for Medicare beneficiaries. In doing so, CMS should acknowledge the growing body of evidence that such interventions are dangerous.
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Announce nonenforcement of the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate on Medicaid and Medicare hospitals.
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Revoke corresponding guidance and regulations.
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Refrain from imposing general COVID-19 mask mandates on healthcare facilities or personnel.
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Sex is redefined: “Discrimination on the basis of sex includes, butis not limited to, discrimination on the basis of sex stereotypes; sex characteristics, including intersex traits; pregnancy or related conditions; sexual orientation; and gender identity.”59 In other words, the department proposes to interpret Section 1557 as if it created special privileges for new classes of people, defined in ways that are highly ideological and unscientific. The redefinition of sex to cover gender identity and sexual orientation and pregnancy to cover abortion should be reversed in all HHS and CMS programs as was done under the Trump Administration.
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Low-income families who rely on CHIP should not be coerced, pressured, or otherwise encouraged to embrace this ideologically motivated sexualization of their children.
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With the disease being endemic and constantly mutating, vaccines and universal masking in health care facilities do not have appreciable benefits in reducing COVID-19 transmission.
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CMS should pay damages to all medical professionals who were dismissed directly because of the CMS vaccine mandate.
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CMS should ensure that Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) proponents receive these grants and are given every opportunity to prove their effectiveness. [which is known to be less than 0.]
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In addition, certain provisions should be employed so that these programs do not serve as advocacy tools to promote sex, promote prostitution, or provide a funnel effect for abortion facilities and school field trips to clinics, or for similar purposes.
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Any lists with “approved curriculum” or so-called evidence-based lists should be abolished.
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HHS should repeal the unnecessary 2016 regulation that imposes nonstatutory sexual orientation and gender identity nondiscrimination conditions on agency grants and return to the policy of maximizing the options for placing vulnerable children in their forever homes.
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Congress should pass the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act to ensure that providers and organizations cannot be subjected to discrimination for providing adoption and foster care services based on their beliefs about marriage.
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ORR staff and care providers should never be allowed to facilitate abortions for unaccompanied children in its custody, including by transporting minors across state lines from pro-life states to abortion-friendly states. Pregnant, unaccompanied girls in ORR custody should be treated with dignity, not trafficked across state lines to be victimized by the abortion industry. ORR should withdraw its policy of allowing elective abortions for children in ORR care and issue a new policy of instructing care providers not to allow girls to be transported for elective abortions. HHS OGC and the White House should insist that DOJ fight to defend that policy.
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Allow child welfare funding to be used for marriage and relationship education.
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Implementa pro-fatherhood messaging campaign.
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Eliminate the Head Start program.
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HHS ACL should survey their programs to ensure that they are supporting vulnerable persons of age or disability and are not facilitating or encouraging participation in PAS. [Physician-Assisted Suicide]
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Restore Trump religious and moral exemptions to the contraceptive mandate (also a CMS rule).
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Expand inclusion of fertility awareness–based methods and supplies to family planning in the women’s preventive services mandate.
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Eliminate men’s preventive services from the women’s preventive services mandate.
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Eliminate the week-after-pill from the contraceptive mandate as a potential abortifacient.
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Withdraw Ryan White guidance allowing funds to pay for cross-sex transition support.
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Ensure that training for medical professionals (doctors, nurses, etc.) and doulas is not being used for abortion training.
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Prioritize funding for home-based childcare, not universal day care.
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Investigate, expose, and remediate any instances in which HHS violated people’s rights by colluding with Big Tech to censor dissenting opinions during COVID, or colluding with abortion advocates and LGBT advocates to violate conscience-protection laws and the Hyde Amendment.
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TheOffice of the Secretary should eliminate the HHS Reproductive Healthcare Access Task Force and install a pro-life task force.
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The Secretary should proudly state that men and women are biological realities that are crucial to the advancement of life sciences and medical care.
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The OASH should withdraw all recommendations of and support for cross-sex medical interventions and “gender-affirming care.”
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Title X activity can be conducted alongside abortion activity without strict physical and financial separation. The regulation also requires grantees to refer for abortions despite sincere moral or religious objections. This effectively bans otherwise qualified pro-life grantees from participating in the program. HHS should rescind the Biden Administration’s regulation and reinstate the Trump Administration regulation for the program.
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Rescind efforts to curtail OCR authority over conscience and religious freedom.
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Encourage DOJ to repeal OLC memos allowing abortion funding despite Hyde and memos allowing federal enclave immunity to perform abortions despite the Assimilative Crimes Act.
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Rescind legal analyses [regarding abortion]
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OGA should have a clear and consistent voice for the Administration’s pro-life and pro-family priorities in all international engagements.
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Congress should pass the Conscience Protection Act so that victims can pursue redress through courts without having to depend exclusively on OCR.
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A draft OCR RFRA and religious freedom rule from the Trump Administration should be issued and finalized.
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Remove all guidance threatening states that protect minors from genital mutilation.
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Issue a general statement of policy specifying that it will not enforce any prohibition on sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in the Section 1557 regulation.
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Announce its intention to enforce disability rights laws to protect children born prematurely, children with disabilities, and children born alive after abortions. [Abortions result in dead fetuses, not live children.]
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Reissue and finalize a disability regulation that prohibited discriminatory application of assisted suicide and denial of life-saving treatments for disabled newborns.
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OCR should withdraw its pharmacy abortion mandate guidance.
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OCR should withdraw its HIPAA guidance on abortion.
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Dr. Ben Carson wrote: “Reset HUD. This effort should specifically include a broad reversal of the Biden Administration’s persistent implementation of corrosive progressive ideologies across the department’s programs. End progressive policies.”
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Reverse HUD’s mission creep.
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The President should issue an executive order making the HUD Secretary a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U. S., which will gain broader oversight authorities to address foreign threats,particularly from China with oversight of foreign ownership of real estate.
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The Secretary should initiate a HUD task force consisting of politically appointed personnel to identify and reverse all actions taken by the Biden Administration to advance progressive ideology.
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Immediately end the Biden Administration’s Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity (PAVE) policies and reverse any Biden Administration actions that threaten to undermine the integrity of real estate appraisals.
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Repeal climate change initiatives and spending in the department’s budget request.
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Repeal the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation.
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Eliminate the new Housing Supply Fund.
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Prohibit noncitizens, including all mixed-status families, from living in all federally assisted housing.
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President Joe Biden’s DOI, as is well documented, abandoned all pretense of complying with federal law regarding federally owned oil and gas resources.
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Immediately reinstate the following Trump DOI secretarial orders: lSO 3348: Concerning the Federal Coal Moratorium; lSO 3349: American Energy Independence; lSO 3350: America-First Offshore Energy Strategy; lSO 3351: Strengthening the Department of the Interior’s Energy Portfolio; lSO 3352: National Petroleum Reserve—Alaska; and many more
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[Blah blah blah—Drill, baby, drill!]
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Rescind the Biden rules and reinstate the Trump rules regarding Endangered Species Act rules.
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Reinstate President Trump’s plan for opening most of the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska to leasing and development.
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Review all major active FBI investigations and activities and terminate any that are unlawful. [as determined by lying Republicans]
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Prohibit the FBI from combating the spread of so-called misinformation and disinformation by Americans who are not tied to any plausible criminal activity.
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The FBI has absolutely no business policing speech, whether in the public square, in print, or online.
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[Lies, damned lies, and The Big Lie]
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Targeting Violent and Career Criminals, Not Parents.
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Enforce the death penalty where appropriate and applicable.
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Secure the border, which is the key entry point for many criminal organizations.
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PURSUING A NATIONAL SECURITY AGENDA AIMED AT EXTERNAL STATE AND NON-STATE ACTORS, NOT U. S. CITIZENS EXERCISING THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
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The Russia collusion hoax will need to be tackled, exposed, and addressed head-on.
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Promptly and Properly Eliminating Lawless Policies, Investigations, and
Cases, Including All Existing Consent Decrees.
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An egregious example of the need for such a review is provided by the department’s use of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances(FACE) Act to harass pro-life demonstrators.
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Engaging in Zealous Advocacy for and Defense of the Constitution and Lawful Administration Regulations and Policies.
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Ensure the assignment of sufficient political appointees throughout the department. [DOJ]
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Reverse the DEI Revolution in Labor Policy.
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Eliminate Racial Classifications and Critical Race Theory Trainings.
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Congress should eliminate disparate impact as a valid theory of discrimination for race and other bases under Title VII and other laws. Disparities do not (and should not legally) imply discrimination per se.
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Pass a law requiring equal (or greater) benefits for pro-life support for mothers and clarifying abortion exclusions.
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Keep anti-life “benefits” out of benefit plans.
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Congress and DOL should clarify that ERISA does not preempt states’ power to restrict abortion, surrogacy, or other anti-life “benefits.”
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EEOC should disclaim its regulatory pretensions.
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Disclaim power to enter into consent decrees.
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Reorient enforcement priorities. EEOC should reorient its enforcement priorities toward claims of failure to accommodate disability, religion, and pregnancy (but not abortion).
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Congress should discard “card check” as the basis of union recognition and mandate the secret ballot exclusively.
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Remove ESG [Environmental, Social, Governance] considerations from ERISA.
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Cap and phase down the H-2A visa program.
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Transforming the [Transportation] department to address the varied needs of all Americans more effectively remains a central challenge.
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DOT has pivoted from a successful focus on the voluntary sharing of data to improve safety outcomes to adoption of a more compulsory and antagonistic approach. This needs to be reversed.
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Rescind all [VA] departmental clinical policy directives that are contrary to principles of conservative governance starting with abortion services and gender reassignment surgery.
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First and foremost, a veterans bill of rights is needed so that veterans and VA staff know exactly what benefits veterans are entitled to receive.
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Strengthen Community Care [privatized veterans’ medical services]
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The VA must improve timeliness of claim adjudication and benefits delivery.
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Increase automation.
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Reduce improper payment and fraud.
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Rescind all delegations of authority promulgated by the VA under the prior Administration.
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Transfer all career SES out of PA/PAS-designated positions on the first day and ensure political control of the VA.
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Prioritize the economic prosperity of ordinary Americans. [LOL]
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President of the Competitive Enterprise Institute Kent Lassman and former White House director of trade and manufacturing policy Peter Navarro disagree almost across the board on trade policy.
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Counter “the malign influence of China and other U. S. adversaries”.
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Treasury should make balancing the federal budget a mission-critical objective.
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Reform the tax code.
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Reduce the intrusiveness and increase the accountability of the Internal Revenue Service.
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Break Up NOAA, one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.
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The U. S. Treasury Department has a broad regulatory and policy reach.The next Administration should make major policy changes to: (1)reduce regulatory impediments to economic growth that reduce living standards and endanger prosperity; (2) reduce regulatory compliance costs that increase prices and cost jobs; (3) promote fiscal responsibility; (4) promote the international competitiveness of U.S. businesses; and (5) better respect the American people’s due process and privacy rights.
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Reversal of the racist “equity” agenda of the Biden Administration; and Reversal of the economically destructive and ineffective climate-related financial-risk agenda of the Biden Administration.
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No President in modern times—perhaps ever—has been more fiscally reckless than has the Biden Administration. [LOL]
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Treasury Secretary Yellin says: “We will have to address the structural problems that have plagued our economy for decades: the decline in labor force participation, income and racial inequality, and serious underinvestment in crucial public goods like childcare, education, and physical infrastructure. And then there are rising challenges, like climate change, which, left unchecked, will undermine every aspect of our economy from supply chains to the financial system.” So the next Administration must act decisively to curtail activities that fall outside Treasury’s mandate and primary mission.
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Reduce marginal tax rates reduce the cost of capital and broaden the tax base.
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Elected officials must clamp down on the Fed’s incorporation of environmental, social, and governance factors into its mandate.
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Implement tariff relief to help counteract inflation.
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Resist calls for more spending on trade adjustment assistance, which is often hijacked for progressive ends.
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Repeal the Jones Act,48 a century-old “Buy American” maritime law that has decimated the U. S. shipbuilding industry.
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Conservatives warned against retaliation from the beginning: It was exactly what happened after the 1930 Smoot–Hawley tariffs that worsened the Great Depression.
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Financial regulators should remove regulatory impediments to entrepreneurial capital formation.
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The FCC needs to change course and bring new urgency to achieving fourmain goals: Reining in Big Tech; Promoting national security; Unleashing economic prosperity, and Ensuring FCC accountability and good governance.
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Congress should investigate ESG practices as a cover for anticompetitive activity and possible unfair trade practices.
It turns out that the MSM has picked up this plan to end Democracy as a major campaign issue.
It turns out that it is as divisive as the Civil War, and for much the same reasons, such as declaring women and girls slaves of the Reddest states.
At some point we will take up a few good ideas from this document.
