ANALYSIS – “I disagree with some of the things they're saying and some of the things they're saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal,” said former President Donald Trump recently.
Despite the fact that Trump has been aggressively distancing himself from “Project 2025” – the plan for conservative governance organized by The Heritage Foundation – it provides a solid framework for renewing our armed forces and the entire federal government.
I hope Trump will reconsider what appears to be a politically calculated retreat from a well-thought-out conservative plan.
The guidebook seeks to dramatically reform the federal government and reduce its footprint and power to put it more in line with its original intent. “Our goal is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State,” a prelude to the handbook states. (RELATED: Republicans Caught Embracing Big Government ‘Solutions' To Societal Problems)
The “administrative state” refers to the massively bloated and overreaching executive branch agencies abusing their power to create, enforce and adjudicate their own rules. These powers and rules have been metastasizing like cancer at an alarming rate. As conservatives we understand that unelected officials should not have such powers.
This is why the left, and now the likely Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris, have been so intent on blasting it. They have called the agenda a “dangerous blueprint” for what his second Trump term could look like.
To me, this is reason alone to confirm the project is hitting the target.
The 900-hundred-page Project 2025 initiative includes a policy agenda, a personnel database for those who could serve in the next Trump administration and training for those individuals called the “Presidential Administration Academy.”
It also includes a playbook of actions to be taken by the president in the first 180 days of office.
It was authored by many loyal officials who served in the first Trump administration.
The plan's focus on renewing our nation's military forces includes banning transgender troops from service and ending taxpayer-funded trans procedures and treatments. It also prohibits the VA from providing taxpayer-funded abortions and related services. (RELATED: Blue State Attempts To Undermine Trump's Return To White House With New ‘Resistance' Effort)
The number of general officers in our top-heavy and bloated military bureaucracy would rightly be slashed, according to this plan.
The chapter on remaking the Department of Defense was written by Christopher Miller, who served as acting defense secretary in the final months of the Trump administration.
“Our disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, our impossibly muddled China strategy, the growing involvement of senior military officers in the political arena, and deep confusion about the purpose of our military are clear signals of a disturbing decay and markers of a dangerous decline in our nation's capabilities and will,” Miller wrote.
Some of the suggested personnel changes Miller put forth fall in line with conservative culture war arguments, including:
- Abolishing diversity, equity and inclusion offices and staffs.
- Reversing a policy that lets DOD cover travel costs for troops seeking reproductive care, including abortion services.
- Eliminating “Marxist indoctrination and divisive critical race theory programs,” which are running rampant in the Pentagon.
- Reinstating service members to active duty who were separated for not receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, restoring their rank and providing them back pay.
It also recommends:
- Requiring completion of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, the military entrance examination, by all students in schools that receive federal funding.
- Increasing the Army force structure by 50,000.
- Maintaining between 28 and 31 larger amphibious warships for the Marine Corps as opposed to the smaller number in current Navy shipbuilding plans.
- Increasing F-35A procurement to 60–80 per year.
- Providing necessary support to Department of Homeland Security border protection operations.
- Improving base housing and considering the military family “holistically” when considering change-of-station moves.
Separately, in a chapter dedicated to revisions to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), it recommends that the Coast Guard, currently operating under DHS during peacetime, be transferred out to another department.
Ken Cuccinelli, a former Trump DHS official, who wrote that section of the guidebook, said the maritime service should instead be moved to the Department of Justice (DOJ) when not at war or alternatively to the Defense Department (DOD) for all purposes.
All of these provisions sound very reasonable to me. And well worth implementing. Trump should reconsider. I will be writing more about Project 2025 in the coming days.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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Thank you very much for your work and efforts to repair the horrendous damage done by the left and deep state globalist. I’m on old retired man with little resources and so all I can offer is my appreciate, prayers and good wishes for your amazing efforts. Thank you again!!!!
Bob
I have read part of it and support it.