Project 2025: The Latest Plot Against America

Project 2025 calls for hurting workers by limiting workers’ wages, overtime pay, and negotiation protections.

Following Project 2025’s plans, a next conservative administration will:

  • Cut overtime pay: Project 2025 would let bosses give workers time off instead of paying extra for overtime. The bosses would pick the time off, so workers would get less pay and lose control over their schedules. page 592
  • Weaken wage protection laws: Project 2025 asks Congress to let states skip national wage rules like the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which sets rules for minimum wage and overtime. page 605
  • Make unemployment harder to get: Project 2025 would make it tougher for unemployed people to access unemployment pay, making it harder for people who need help. page 598 
  • Remove wage rules on federal jobs: Project 2025 wants Congress to end the Davis-Bacon Act. This law makes sure that workers on federal jobs get pay like other local workers. page 604
  • Putting children in dangerous jobs without their parents’ consent: Undermining parental rights, Project 2025 calls for allowing teenagers to work in “dangerous jobs.” page 595

States are already implementing Project 2025:

  • Texas: Filed a lawsuit to try to strike down a federal rule extending mandatory overtime pay to 4 million salaried workers.
  • Florida: Stripped local “living wage” laws that require Florida contractors to pay employees a wage that’s higher than the state’s minimum.
  • South Carolina: Banned public sector union members from  engaging in their right to collective bargaining.
  • Georgia: Is one of 13 states suing to stop the implementation of a Federal rule expanding the class of workers who receive financial compensation when they work overtime.

Project 2025 will raise your taxes to pay for big corporate tax cuts.

Project 2025 calls for the following tax policy changes:

1. A consumption tax on all goods: Project 2025 calls for a consumption tax on all purchases. (page 698)

2. Income tax hikes: For taxpayers in the 10% or 12% tax rate brackets now, Project 2025 would raise the federal income tax rate to 15%. For taxpayers in the 22% and 24% tax rate brackets, Project 2025 would raise the federal income tax rate to 30%. (page 696)

Economists estimate that a middle-class family with two children and an annual income of $100,000 would pay $2,600 in additional federal income tax if they faced a 15% flat tax on their income due to the loss of the 10% and 12% tax brackets. By comparison, a married couple with two children and earnings of $5 million a year would enjoy a $325,000 tax cut.

3. Home mortgage taxes and interest rates will go up too: Project 2025 calls for eliminating the State And Local Tax deduction (SALT) and privatizing the government’s mortgage lending vehicles, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, estimated to cost the average homeowner around $1200 per year as mortgage rates go up. (pages 697, 706)

Project 2025 will raise your taxes to pay for big corporate tax cuts. Project 2025 calls for the following tax policy changes:​

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Project 2025’s authoritarian playbook would devastate our veteran community.

Project 2025’s authoritarian playbook would devastate our veteran community. ​

The Project 2025 agenda would:

  1. Cut health coverage for veterans and reduce the quality of care they receive. Many veterans under 65 rely on Medicaid; Project 2025 calls for capping Medicaid funding to states and giving states the power to deny coverage of particular services. (page 467)
  2. Cut benefits for disabled veterans by reducing the number of health conditions that count for getting these benefits. This could mean some veterans might lose their benefits, and others who haven’t applied yet might not be able to get them at all. (page 649)
  3. Make it easier for scammers to prey on veterans by abolishing the CFPB, which helps protect veterans from financial scams and fraud. Veterans are top targets for claim sharks, identity theft, loans scams, and investment fraud, and since 2011, the CFPB has handled over 400,000 complaints from service members. The agency has also recovered $183 million for veterans who were harmed by these violations. (page 838)
  4. Exacerbate veteran homelessness by eliminating the “Housing First” policies that have helped thousands of homeless veterans get housing, drug treatment, and mental health care. Since 2008, this program has provided housing for over 81,000 veterans and could help 35,000 more. (page 509)
The number of veterans experiencing homelessness rose slightly even before the coronavirus pandemic

Source – Military Times

  1. Fire thousands of veteran civil servants: Project 2025 calls for the President to be able to fire thousands of federal workers who have served across administrations of both political parties. Veterans make up ~30% of the federal workforce, so mass firings of federal workers would mean firing many veterans, including: VA healthcare staff, CBP officers, national park service rangers, and DOD civilian employees. (page 535)

Veterans have served our country patriotically and deserve to be treated like the heroes they are. Project 2025 is the “worst case” scenario for veterans. 

Project 2025 calls to end the Essential Air Service (EAS), making travel more expensive and less convenient for Americans living in smaller towns and remote areas.

Endorsed by over 100 right-wing groups, Project 2025 is a blue-print for the next conservative administration to gut checks and balances in order to take control of our lives and to take away our rights and freedoms. 

WHAT IS THE EAS?

The EAS is a federal program established in 1978 to ensure that rural Americans have access to air travel, especially for essential needs like commuting to work opportunities, accessing medical appointments, or traveling for family emergencies. The EAS supports air service to around 175 rural communities, particularly those where commercial airlines would not typically operate. 

By providing millions of dollars in grants per airport annually, the EAS keeps commercial airlines serving key rural routes and keeps flight costs low for residents. Without these grants, many small-town airports could lose service altogether or close, forcing residents to drive long distances to larger airports or face unaffordable ticket prices.

WHERE DOES THE EAS OPERATE?

Routes from every EAS Airport in the lower 48 states

Routes from every EAS Airport in the lower 48 states, as of August 21, 2023. Source

WHAT DOES PROJECT 2025 SAY ABOUT THE EAS?

Project 2025 calls for ending the EAS program and for cutting the federal subsidies that help maintain affordable air travel options for rural Americans. The Heritage Foundation, the leading creator of Project 2025, has also called directly for ending the EAS in its 2023 Budget Blueprint. 

Eliminate the Transportation Department Air Service Program

Source – The Heritage Foundation 

WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF ELIMINATING THE EAS?

Experts warn that ending the EAS could lead to the closure of numerous small airports, leaving rural communities isolated and disconnected from the rest of the country. Without these subsidies, a round-trip flight that currently costs $200 could skyrocket, making it difficult for many families to afford necessary travel and limiting economic prosperity for rural regions. EAS services are vital for cites like Page, AZ who would otherwise rely on driving to Las Vegas, which is 4.5 hours away. 

HOW MUCH DOES EACH EAS AIRPORT STAND TO LOSE ANNUALLY?

Here’s how much each EAS airport stands to lose annually with Project 2025

Republicans in Congress have tried to end funding for the Essential Air Service before, with many members voting against the interest of the people they represent.

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