Originally at https://dailymontanan.com
Project 2025 is Trump’s plan for his second term—if he wins. The 900-plus page “Mandate for Leadership: the Conservative Promise” details his agenda for his first 180 days in office and is publicly available. Google it. You should know, that title is no accident.
Republicans used a 3,000-page manual, called the “Mandate for Leadership: Policy Management,” as a blueprint for the Reagan Administration. That first iteration was not just empty words on paper, either. Within a year of Reagan winning, 60% percent of the manual’s recommendations had become law—according to Project 2025 itself. Forty plus years later, history repeats itself.
If you have not read Trump’s Mandate, maybe because you do not think your part of the group he’s currently going after, you should reconsider that decision. Trump’s Mandate creates an entirely new and unprecedented level of government intrusion into our daily lives—and not in the way you might think.
For example:
He plans to use the federal government to end overtime pay. Growing up, I spent a long time working in the service industry and worked overtime—a lot. Sometimes, as it was for me, working overtime is part of the job. I learned that other times, and for many people, overtime is how you make ends meet. You pick up a shift here or there when things happen, and you need a little extra in the bank. To be clear, they do not plan to take away your employer’s ability to require overtime or your ability to work overtime—they just plan on taking away the now-existing requirement that your employer pay you extra for that overtime work. Here’s the quote: “Specifically, employers and employees should be able to set a two- or four-week period over which to calculate overtime.”
So, if you work 80 hours one week, your employer will be able to send you home at the end and, if they don’t call you in to work the following week, you won’t be entitled to any overtime at all. That’s because—according to them—you’ll have worked an average of 40 hours each week. Convenient. It’s not hard to see how that will be abused. Twice the workers, twice the work, half the pay. But don’t take my word for it; read for yourself on page 592 of Trump’s Mandate.
Perhaps most of all, Trump’s Mandate is going to hurt kids in Montana. They plan to defund public schools, (page 320), completely end programs like Head Start (page 482), make childcare even harder to get, and massively cut free breakfast and lunch programs—some of the only meals that the most vulnerable kids get each day.
If someone takes the time to tell you in writing what they plan to do, it is time to pay attention. This new Mandate for Leadership contains much darker and despotic plans, go read it for yourself. It is now or never. If they get their way, they’ll have accomplished most of their goals by this time next year.
If, after reading, you have more questions, maybe ask Sen. Steve Daines about it: Chris Anderson—his national security advisor—is specifically credited as a contributor to Project 2025 (page xxv).
And if someone says to you that Trump has nothing to do with Project 2025, I’ll leave you with this quote from Trump on April 21, 2022 about Project 2025 itself: “This is a great group and they’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do and what your movement will do when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America.”
Read it. Decide for yourself.
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