Note: The explanations following each numbered item below are a direct

quote/extraction from the Project 2025 document itself.

1. Put Medicare on the path to privatization

Make Medicare Advantage the default enrollment option. (pg. 465)

For an explanation of the difference between traditional Medicare and market-

based Medicare Advantage:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/05/health/medicare-seniors-health.html 2

a. Repeal President Biden’s Medicaid drug price negotiation program This “negotiation” program should be repealed, and reforms in Part D that will have meaningful impact for seniors should be pursued. (pg. 465)

b. Threaten Medicaid Coverage for hundreds of thousands of Americans The dramatic increase in Medicaid expenditures is due in large part to the ACA (Obamacare), which mandates that states must expand their Medicaid eligibility standards to include all individuals at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) (pg.466)

As Medicaid enrollment continues to climb, it is imperative that there are appropriate and accurate eligibility standards to ensure that the program remains focused on serving those who are in need. To this end, CMS should: a. Hold states accountable for improper eligibility determinations.

c .Require more robust eligibility determinations.

Strengthen asset test determinations within Medicaid. (pg. 467)

2. Reduce the Biden Administration’s Student Debt Relief Efforts

a. The new Administration must end abuses in the loan forgiveness programs.

Borrowers should be expected to repay their loans. (pg. 322)

b. End time-based and occupation-based student loan forgiveness. (pg. 361)

3. Withdraw from the U.N. Framework Convention on climate change and the

Paris Climate Agreement

a. To that end, the next conservative Administration should withdraw the U.S. from

the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change74 and the Paris Agreement.

(pg. 709)

b. Remove the U.S. from any association with U.N. and other efforts to push

sustainable-development schemes connected to food production. (pg. 293)

4. Repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, President Biden’s landmark climate law

Support repeal of massive spending bills like the Infrastructure Investment and

Jobs Act (IIJA)3 and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA),4 which established new

programs and are providing hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to

renewable energy developers, their investors, and special interests, and support

the rescinding of all funds not already spent by these programs. (pg. 365)

5. Shred greenhouse gas regulations and gut clean energy programs

a. Remove the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) for any source

category that is not currently being regulated. (pg. 425)

b. End the focus on climate change and green subsidies. (pg. 378)

c. Eliminate energy efficiency standards for appliances. (pg. 378)

d. Eliminate the Clean Energy Corps by revoking funding and eliminating all

positions and personnel hired under the program. (386)

e. Repeal climate change initiatives and spending in the department’s budget

request. (pg. 508)

f. End federal mandates and subsidies of electric vehicles. (pg. 537)

g. Treasury has created a new departmental office, “Climate Hub,” and has made

“combating climate change” one of the Biden Treasury Department’s top five

principal goals. 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. (pg. 708-709)

6. Replace the White House climate advisor with someone focused on boosting

the fossil fuel industry.

a. Stop the war on oil and natural gas. (pg. 365)

b. Eliminate political and climate-change interference in DOE approvals of liquefied

natural gas (LNG) exports. (pg. 369)

c. 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 and the need for open-ended foreign aid. The next

conservative Administration should rescind all climate policies from its foreign aid

programs (specifically USAID’s Climate Strategy 2022–20307 ); shut down the

agency’s offices, programs, and directives designed to advance the Paris Climate

Agreement; and narrowly limit funding to traditional climate mitigation efforts.

(pg. 257)

d. Eliminate carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) programs.(pg. 376)

e. Rename FECM (if it cannot be eliminated) under its original designation as the

Office of Fossil Energy and with its original mission: increasing energy security

and supply through fossil fuels. (pg. 377)

7. Give Trump the power to reject all climate science research directed by the

Biden administration.

a. …the Biden Administration’s climate fanaticism will need a whole-of-government unwinding. (pg. 60)

b. The President should issue an executive order establishing a Senior Advisor to

coordinate the policy development and implementation of relevant energy and

environment policy by officials across the EOP (for example, the policy staff of

the NSC, NEC, DPC, CEQ, and OSTP) and abolishing the existing Office of

Domestic Climate Policy. (pg. 61)

8. Gut the federal workforce and install loyalists by making tens of thousands of

civil servants “fireable” at Trump’s will.

Background information: the Trump Administration issued Executive Order 1395724 to

make career professionals in positions that are not normally subject to change as a

result of a presidential transition but who discharge significant duties and exercise

significant discretion in formulating and implementing executive branch policy and

programs an exception to the competitive hiring rules and examinations for career

positions under a new Schedule F. It ordered the Director of OPM and agency heads to

set procedures to prepare lists of such confidential, policy-determining, policymaking, or

policy-advocating positions and prepare procedures to create exceptions from civil

service rules when careerists hold such positions, from which they can relocate back to

the regular civil service after such service.

a. In order to carry out the President’s desires, political appointees must be given

the tools, knowledge, and support to overcome the federal government’s

obstructionist Human Resources departments. More fundamentally, the new

Administration must fill its ranks with political appointees. (pg. 20)

b. From Personnel Database questionnaire (view full questionnaire below):

The president should be able to advance his/her agenda through the

bureaucracy without hinderance from unelected federal officials. Please select

agree, disagree, neither agree not disagree.

9. Allow ICE to conduct raids at schools, churches, hospitals, playgrounds and

other sensitive areas.

a. The role of ICE Deportation Officers should be clarified. ICE Enforcement and

Removal Operations (ERO) should be identified as being primarily

responsible for enforcing civil immigration regulations, including the civil arrest,

detention, and removal of immigration violators anywhere in the United States,

without warrant where appropriate, subject only to the civil warrant requirements

of the INA where appropriate. (pg. 142)

b. All ICE memoranda identifying “sensitive zones” where ICE personnel are

prohibited from operating should be rescinded. Rely on the good judgment of

officers in the field to avoid inappropriate situations. (pg. 142)

10. Make federal government establish marriage between a man and a woman as

the “ideal, natural family structure.”

a. The next conservative President must get to work pursuing the true priority of politics—the well-being of the American family. In many ways, the entire point of centralizing political power is to subvert the family. Its purpose is to replace people’s natural loves and loyalties with unnatural ones. (pg. 4)

b. Families comprised of a married mother, father, and their children are the foundation of a well-ordered nation and healthy society. Unfortunately, family policies and programs under President Biden’s HHS are fraught with agenda items focusing on “LGBTQ+ equity,” subsidizing single-motherhood, disincentivizing work, and penalizing marriage. These policies should be repealed and replaced by policies that support the formation of stable, married,nuclear families. (pg. 451)

c. Protect faith-based grant recipients from religious liberty violations and maintain

a biblically based, social science–reinforced definition of marriage and family. (pg. 481)

d. Additionally, the positive role of faith-based programs should be protected by the

Department of Health and Human Services and prioritized so that these programs do not receive undue scrutiny or pressure to conform to nonreligious definitions of marriage and family as put forward by the recently enacted Respect for Marriage Act. (pgs. 480-481)

e. HMRE program grants should be available to faith-based recipients who affirm

that marriage is between not just any two adults, but one man and one unrelated

woman. (pg. 481)

11. Withdraw federal anti-discrimination protections for transgender students.

a. Rescind regulations prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation,

gender identity, transgender status, and sex characteristics. (pg. 584)

b. No public education employee or contractor shall use a name to address a

student other than the name listed on a student’s birth certificate, without the

written permission of a student’s parents or guardians. (pg. 346)

c. No public education employee or contractor shall use a pronoun in addressing a

student that is different from that student’s biological sex without the written

permission of a student’s parents or guardians. (pg.346)

d. No public institution may require an education employee or contractor to use a

pronoun that does not match a person’s biological sex if contrary to the

employee’s or contractor’s religious or moral convictions. (pg. 346)

12. Reimplement Trump’s transgender military ban and expel transgender service

members.

a. Exceptions for individuals who are already predisposed to require medical

treatment (for example, HIV positive or suffering from gender dysphoria) should

be removed, and those with gender dysphoria should be expelled from

military service. (pg. 135)

b. Reverse policies that allow transgender individuals to serve in the military.

Gender dysphoria is incompatible with the demands of military service, and the

use of public monies for transgender surgeries or to facilitate abortion for servicemembers should be ended. (pg. 136)

13. Reverse the FDA’s approval of abortion medication.

a. Abortion pills pose the single greatest threat to unborn children in a post-Roe

world. (pg 457)

b. [The FDA must] Reverse its approval of chemical abortion drugs because the

politicized approval process was illegal from the start. (pg. 458)

c. Implement a policy of transparency about inspections of the abortion pill’s

sponsors, Danco and GenBioPro, as well as facilities that manufacture the pills.

The FDA should respond to congressional requests and Freedom of Information

Act (FOIA) requests about inspections, compliance, and post-marketing safety in

a timely manner. (pg. 456)

d. Reinstate earlier safety protocols for Mifeprex that were mostly eliminated in

2016 and apply these protocols to any generic version of mifepristone. (pg. 459)

14. Invoke a 150-year-old defunct law called the Comstock Act to ban the shipment of abortion pills, enacting a de facto national abortion ban

a. Stop promoting or approving mail-order abortions in violation of long-standing

federal laws that prohibit the mailing and interstate carriage of abortion drugs.

(pg.458)

b. Announcing a Campaign to Enforce the Criminal Prohibitions in 18 U.S. Code §§

1461 and 1462 Against Providers and Distributors of Abortion Pills That Use the

Mail. Federal law prohibits mailing “[e]very article, instrument, substance, drug,

medicine, or thing which is advertised or described in a manner calculated to

lead another to use or apply it for producing abortion.” (pg. 562)

15. Compel states to report the “reason” for every abortion performed within their

borders.

a. Because liberal states have now become sanctuaries for abortion tourism, HHS

should use every available tool, including the cutting of funds, to ensure that

every state reports exactly how many abortions take place within its borders, at

what gestational age of the child, for what reason, the mother’s state of

residence, and by what method. (pg.455)

b. The Ensuring Accurate and Complete Abortion Data Reporting Act of 20239

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. (pg. 456)

16. Allow states to ban employers from providing health benefits that cover

abortion care.

a. Keep anti-life “benefits” out of benefit plans. Some benefits attorneys and pro-

choice advocates have argued since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson

Women’s Health Organization decision6 that the longstanding doctrine of

Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA)7 preemption should

block individual states’ efforts to prohibit employers from helping employeesprocure abortions via offering various kinds of coverage under employee-sponsored benefit plans. ERISA should not be allowed to trump states’ ability to protect innocent human life in the womb. Congress and DOL should clarify that ERISA does not preempt states’ power to restrict abortion, surrogacy, or other anti-life “benefits.” (pg. 585)

b. Withdraw Medicaid funds for states that require abortion insurance or that

discriminate in violation of the Weldon Amendment. The Weldon Amendment

declares that no HHS funding may go to a state or local government that

discriminates against pro-life health entities or insurers. In blatant violation of this

law, seven states require abortion coverage in private health insurance plans, and HHS continues to fund those states. (pg. 472)

Weaponizing the Federal Government to Carry Out

the Christian Nationalist Agenda

Department of Justice

While the supervision of litigation is a DOJ responsibility, the department falls under the direct supervision and control of the President of the United States asa component of the executive branch. Thus, and putting aside criminal prosecutions that can warrant different treatment, litigation decisions must bemade consistent with the President’s agenda. (pg. 559)
Prohibit the FBI from engaging, in general, in activities related to combating the spread of so-called misinformation and disinformation by Americans who are not tied to any plausible criminal activity. (pg. 550)

Department of Education

Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the FederalDepartment of Education should be eliminated. (pg. 319) Thoroughly review the many education-related regulations promulgated by the Biden Administration, as well as the school meals program and the Income Driven student loan program. (pg. 331)
Safeguarding civil rights. Enforcement of civil rights should be based on a proper understanding of those laws, rejecting gender ideology and critical race theory.(pg. 322)

Department of Homeland Security

The Office of the Secretary should recommence proposed regulation put forward under the Trump Administration that would prohibit noncitizens, including all mixed-status families, from living in all federally assisted housing.
Congress should mandate and fund additional bed space for alien detainees. ICE should be funded for a significant increase in detention space, raising thedaily available number of beds to 100,000. (pg. 176)
Congress should fund ICE for at least 20,000 ERO officers and 5,000 Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA) attorneys. (pg. 176)
The incoming Administration should spearhead an immigration legislative agenda focused on creating a merit-based immigration system that rewards high skilled aliens instead of the current system that favors extended family–based and luck-of-the-draw immigration. To that end, the diversity visa lottery should be repealed, chain migration should be ended while focusing on the nuclear family, and the existing employment visa program should be replaced with a system to award visas only to the “best and brightest.”
Repeal Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations (pg. 182)

Other Sources of Information

2024-05_Peoples-Guide-Pro-2025.pdf (democracyforward.org)

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