Title: Project 2025 Myth v Fact
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A 4 page Myth v Fact for Project 202
Created: 2024-08-14 10:08:57
Updated: 2024-08-14 10:54:40
Published: 2024-08-13 21:00:00
Converted: 2025-04-14T20:22:24.409656862
Project 2025 is a coalition of more than 110 conservative organizations preparing to offer recommendations
to the next conservative president. The Project was launched in 2022, before any major candidate announced
a campaign, to assist the next conservative president. Project 2025 does not speak for any candidate or
campaign, rather it is a collection of conservative policy proposals the groups united behind the effort would
like to see enacted. While the Left is spreading falsehoods and mischaracterizing Project 2025’s policy agenda,
we’ve put together the facts.
The Left claims that Project 2025 and Mandate for Leadership would:
Project 2025 actually represents an attempt to restore Constitutional governance, not terminate it. Bringing
the administrative state more firmly under the control of the president, whose authority traces directly from
the Constitution, could not be further from terminating this quintessential founding document.
Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership does not advocate for banning books or curriculum about slavery.
Project 2025 aims to weaken the bureaucracy that churns out tens of thousands of pages of rules every year.
A more restrained administrative state translates into less control over Americans’ daily lives, not more.
The only people calling for packing the judiciary are those on the Left, who do it every time the Supreme
Court or a lower court makes decisions they don’t like.
Project 2025 aims to protect democracy by restoring traditional checks and balances between the President,
Congress, and the Courts. We advocate making the administrative state more accountable by restoring the
president’s control over the bureaucrats in the Executive Branch.
Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership calls for respecting the civil rights of all Americans, including those
who have been censored by the government or had it weaponized against them. Mandate advocates for the
end of divisive, race-based, anti-American propaganda in the federal workforce.
Terminate the Constitution:
FALSE
Ban books and curriculum about slavery:
FALSE
Give the Government more power over your daily life:
FALSE
Pack the Supreme Court and lower courts with right-wing judges:
FALSE
Gut democratic checks and balances on presidential power:
FALSE
End civil rights:
FALSE
Debunking the Lies About Project 2025: MYTH vs. FACT
Government
Civil Rights
Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership advocates for the end of divisive, race-based, anti-American
propaganda like DEI in the federal workforce.
The appropriateness of capital punishment divides Americans, and conservatives, of good will. Project
2025’s Mandate for Leadership calls for the enforcement of the federal death penalty where appropriate
and applicable, and recommends a future presidential administration pursue the death penalty for the most
heinous crimes, including those involving violence and the sexual abuse of children, unless Congress says
otherwise through legislation.
End DEI protections in government:
TRUE
Promote and expedite capital punishment:
TRUE
Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership makes no cuts to any veteran benefits. It does propose reforms to
the VA to deliver improved care in a more efficient and timely fashion to America’s veterans. The VA has long
been mismanaged and has not served our nation’s veterans for some time now. Project 2025 demands that
the VA improves and modernizes.
The VA needs more aggressive recruitment of doctors, mental health professionals, and other staff to meet
urgent needs at overburdened care centers. VHA centers should be required to see more patients per day.
All VA medical centers should consider extending weekday hours and adding Saturday hours to meet excess
capacity or delay in care for veterans. The VA should improve the timeliness of claim adjudication and benefits
delivery to deliver benefits without frustrating delays. Most importantly, the VA should develop a new pilot
“Express 30” commitment to complete a veteran’s first disability claim in 30 days
Cut military benefits for veterans and service members including
housing, TRICARE, retirement, and secondary education:
FALSE
Military & Veterans
Divorce is not mentioned in Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership.
Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership says nothing about banning or restricting contraception.
IVF is not mentioned anywhere in Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership.
The legal recognition of same-sex marriage is not discussed in Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership. Mandate
calls for the protection of faith-based grant recipients who maintain support for the traditional definition of
marriage. Mandate also supports conscience protections for those who do not wish to participate in same-
sex marriages.
Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership calls for the government to comply with laws that prevent federal
funding of abortion. It also calls for federal support for alternatives to abortion, including adoption.
End no-fault divorce:
FALSE
Ban contraceptives:
FALSE
Ban IVF:
FALSE
End “marriage equality”:
FALSE
Complete ban on abortions without exceptions:
FALSE
Marriage & Family
Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership suggests that a future HHS Secretary replace the policies of the
Biden administration that prioritize LGBTQ+ equality, subsidize single motherhood, disincentivize work, and
penalize marriage with policies that instead encourage marriage, work, motherhood, fatherhood, and
nuclear families.
Condemn single mothers while promoting only
“traditional families”:
FALSE
Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership calls for the criminalization of pornography production, distribution,
and consumption. Pornography has no claim to First Amendment protection and its purveyors are child
predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as
psychologically destructive as any crime.
Outlaw pornography:
TRUE
Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership offers policy suggestions to curb the abuses of the Affordable Care
Act.
Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership advocates that the Food and Nutrition Service be moved from the
Department of Agriculture to the Department of Health and Human Services. Mandate condemns the Biden
administration’s decision to threaten schools that do not comply with radical transgender policies by taking
away their funding for school meals for needy students. Additionally, Mandate supports prioritizing school
meal programs for those students who are truly needy by reforming or eliminating the often-misused
Community Eligibility Program, which creates an entitlement for many students regardless of family income
levels.
Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership offers proposals to lower drug prices through competition and
innovation.
Americans are able to use taxpayer money to choose where they shop for groceries, attain housing, and
obtain higher education. Religious schools often outperform public schools, and families should have the
choice to send their children to these schools.
Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership calls for the end of the Department of Education. Since the
Department was created, educational outcomes have not improved, and the American school system has
increasingly fallen behind other countries. Giving more control back to state and local governments, and
expanding school choice, would improve education outcomes for all Americans, especially underprivileged
communities. Some functions of the Department would be moved to other departments including Labor,
Justice, and Commerce.
End the Affordable Care Act:
FALSE
End free and discounted school lunch programs:
FALSE
Raise prescription drug prices:
FALSE
Use public, taxpayer money for private religious schools:
TRUE
Shut down the Department of Education:
TRUE
Healthcare
Education
Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership does not advocate cutting Social Security. Even liberal CNN’s fact
checkers have confirmed this, stating unambiguously: “Fact check: Harris falsely claims Project 2025 blueprint
calls for cutting Social Security.”
America needs energy that is plentiful and affordable. Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership calls for an
all-of-the-above energy policy that would promote the development of our domestic energy supply, and for
fewer burdensome regulations for ALL businesses.
Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership supports an orderly and lawful immigration system. It advocates
that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of Removal Operations be primarily responsible for
enforcing civil immigration regulations, including the removal of those who have violated our immigration
laws. It also calls for additional resources to put an end to Joe Biden’s border crisis and enforce immigration
laws.
Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership presents different ideas about a conservative labor policy. It calls
for combatting the excesses of the Deep State’s bloated federal employee unions, which have ensured that
federal employees keep their jobs even if they engage in illegal behavior or perform their jobs poorly.
The Arctic is of immense strategic importance to America. Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership advocates
a strong pursuit of American interests in the region, through economic freedom; through ensuring free and
open shipping lanes; and through the development of the vast energy resources of the Arctic.
Raising the retirement age is nowhere advocated in Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership.
Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership does not advocate cutting Medicare.
Cut Social Security:
FALSE
Deregulate big business and the oil industry:
MOSTLY TRUE
Mass deportation of illegal immigrants:
TRUE
Eliminate unions and worker protections:
FALSE
Increase Arctic Drilling:
TRUE
Raise the retirement age:
FALSE
Last updated August 1, 2024. For the most up to date version, go to project2025.org/truth
Cut Medicare:
FALSE
Healthcare
Energy & Environment
Immigration
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