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The far right’s agenda to massively strengthen a possible future conservative president’s power is omnipresent throughout Project 2025’s manifesto, Mandate for Leadership. It insists on loyalty to the president and Project 2025’s agenda and effectively subverts the will of the people. 

Policy proposals in the Heritage Foundation-backed transition project manifesto that clearly demonstrate its attempt to weaponize the federal government include:

  • Project 2025 intends to radically weaken the FBI, demoting it within the DOJ, making it subject to more political appointees, and terminating “major active FBI investigations” that are “contrary to the national interest.”
  • The Project 2025 manifesto also calls on the next conservative administration to reevaluate its relationship with the news media, suggesting that the White House Press Corps might not be given office space in the White House and that the White House Correspondents Association might not be the best-coordinating body for the press corps. Project 2025 also encourages the Office of Communications leadership team to “work together closely to drive the national narrative about the White House.”
  • Project 2025 embraces a strong unitary executive theory, calling the federal government “a behemoth, weaponized against American citizens and conservative values” that conservatives intend to reverse to further empower a conservative president. It also instates federal government employees who “will be above all loyal to the president and the constitution” and policies that would strip federal agencies of long-standing decision-making power.
  • Project 2025’s plans for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) include expanding the number of political appointees at DHS and giving them more power while simultaneously reducing congressional oversight and decertifying the labor union to require employee conformity.

By strengthening the president, demanding unfettered loyalty, reducing Congressional oversight, requiring conformity among federal agency employees, demoting and controlling the FBI, and tightening its grip on the press corps to drive the national narrative about the White House, Project 2025 is crystal clear about the far-right’s commitment to weaponizing the federal government to serve its extreme agenda.

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