{"id":35797,"date":"2024-08-28T12:27:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T19:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=35797"},"modified":"2024-08-28T12:27:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T19:27:04","slug":"jec-report-details-radical-project-2025-plan-to-crush-climate-education-and-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/08\/28\/jec-report-details-radical-project-2025-plan-to-crush-climate-education-and-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"JEC Report Details ‘Radical’ Project 2025 Plan to Crush Climate, Education, and Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Democratic National Convention attendees hold anti-Project 2025 signs at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 19, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo: Robyn Beck\/\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“If Republicans get their way, low-income children will go hungry, seniors will be forced to choose between lifesaving medication and putting food on the table, and the planet our kids inherit will be in jeopardy.”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

JESSICA CORBETT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aug 27, 2024 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A congressional committee on Tuesday released an annotated report<\/a> exposing how the far-right Project 2025 “would undercut working families by making healthcare and higher education less affordable; providing less support to families; and rolling back climate enforcement and research.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Joint Economic Committee (JEC) Democrats’ publication is just two pages, but it highlights attacks on healthcare, education, and the climate found throughout the “radical” policy agenda for the next Republican president, which is over 900 pages long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with the lengthy policy agenda<\/a>, the 2025 Presidential Transition Project<\/a> includes personnel recruitment<\/a>, training<\/a>, and a 180-day playbook.<\/a> The project is led by the Heritage Foundation, backed by over 100 other groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump<\/a>, has tried to distance<\/a> himself from Project 2025, but at least 140 people who worked in his first administration, including six former Cabinet secretaries, have been involved with it. Also, his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio)\u2014a JEC member\u2014wrote<\/a> the foreword to Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts’ new book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This Republican plan would concentrate power within the executive branch, make life harder for working people, and cede power to Big Pharma and other corporations.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the JEC Democrats report details, on the healthcare front, Project 2025 calls for “reversing Democrats’ efforts to lower prescription drug costs (see page 465)” and “putting lifetime limits or caps on Medicaid coverage (see page 468).”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The agenda also calls for overruling the Food and Drug Administration’s “approval for medication abortion (see page 457), making it increasingly difficult to access these vital medicines by mail (see pages 458-459), and prohibiting the use of federal funding to cover the travel needed to obtain an abortion (see page 471),” the publication continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In terms of education, the report adds, Project 2025 advocates “gutting public school funding by creating a school voucher program (see page 347) and cutting Title I funding that supports low-income schools (see page 325),” as well as “rolling back free school meals programs for low-income children (see page 303).”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The impacts would be felt at all levels of education. It calls for “eliminating Head Start (see page 482),” an early childhood education program serving nearly 800,000 kids, along with “ending the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF) (see page 354) and creating a new, less generous income-driven repayment (IDR) plan (see page 337).”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the most important reason of all to vote against Trump
and the @GOP<\/a> \u2014 they threaten the planet itself: https:\/\/t.co\/gkdZyqopvn<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/QdPNvOlTrP<\/a><\/p>— Prof Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) August 26, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>