Graffagnino: Trump’s Project 2025 detailed

Project 2025 is a massive document that lays out Donald Trump’s plans for America, should he be reelected. Some of the more noteworthy particulars are listed here:

• End no-fault divorce
• Complete ban on abortion without exceptions “and some kind of punishment for the mothers should they abort”
• Ban contraceptives
• Instill additional tax breaks for the most wealthy (the 1%), as well as corporations
• Enact higher taxes for the working class
• Eliminate “unions” and worker protection programs
• Raise the legal retirement age for the working class
• Cut Social Security
• Cut Medicare
• End the Affordable Care Act or “Obamacare”
• Raise prescription drug prices
• Eliminate the Department of Education
• Use taxpayers’ money for private religious schools
• Teach “Christian” religious beliefs in all public schools (what happened to the separation of church and state?)
• End free and discounted lunch programs in schools
• Ban African American and gender studies in all schools at all levels of education
• Ban books about slavery
• End the scientific study involving climate change/protection
• Increase Arctic drilling for oil and natural gas (his quote: “Drill, baby, drill”)
• Deregulate the rules that govern Big Business and the oil industry to increase their profit margins by billions
• Promote and “expedite” capital punishment
• Begin mass deportation of immigrants
• End marriage equality and same-sex marriage, with the elimination of equal rights, as per traditional marriages
• Condemn single mothers, while promoting only “traditional families”
• Defund (eliminate) the FBI and Department of Homeland Security
• Use the military to break up domestic protests
• End birthright citizenship
• Ban Muslims from entering the country
• Eliminate federal agencies like the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and more
• Continue to pack the Supreme Court and lower courts with right-wing judges
• Become a “dictator” on day 1
• Abandon our NATO allies and encourage “Vladimir Putin” to do “whatever the hell he wants” in eastern Europe
• Use the presidency for revenge and retribution without consequences

Enough said?

This is only a partial list of what is to come! Is this the America we want for our children and grandchildren?

Peter Graffagnino

Bridgeville

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