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Editor, Times-Union:
Project 2025 was uncovered before the 2024 election. Warnings about this proposed presidential transition project were issued during the election process. Several authors of the project (all members of the Heritage Foundation) became part of the Trump administration after the election: Russell Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget; John Ratcliffe, Director of CIA; Troy Edgar, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security; John Feere, Chief of Staff of ICE; Brendan Carr, leader of FCC. These men are and have been in positions necessary to carry out the diabolical blueprint for executive action across federal agencies — with the eager and enthusiastic assistance of their easily-swayed, implanted enabler, Donald J. Trump — in order to dismantle our democracy/republic and replace it with a fascist autocracy run by billionaires.
Skillfully using their “puppet” in the White House (who is busy with his redecorating and self-promoting projects, his war mongering, his constant pursuit of retribution against “enemies” past and present, and his repugnant creation of derogatory names for the people he actually fears the most) to distract a weary, over-burdened citizenry, the project creators are rapidly achieving their goals.
“As of mid-2026, approximately 53% of Project 2025’s domestic policy actions have been initiated or completed, with 283 of 532 recommended actions implemented across 20 federal agencies.” The Center for Progressive Reform and Governing for Impact tracks the Project’s implementation, focusing on domestic policy, regulatory rollbacks, and administrative changes. —progressivereform.org
Some of the Project’s completed actions have already negatively affected military and defense, labor and federal employees, immigration and public health, environmental policy, medical and research policy, dietary guidelines, and legal oversight. —project 2025.observer
If you rely solely on Fox “News” for information, you have no clue about the destruction already done.
But wait! There are more project-stated goals and two more years to complete those goals: end no fault divorce; ban contraceptives; impose higher taxes for the working class; cut social security and Medicare (already begun); eliminate the Department of Education; teach Christian religious beliefs in public schools (steps already taken); end civil rights; end marriage equality; condemn single mothers while promoting only “traditional families;” defund FBI and Homeland Security; eliminate federal agencies like the FDA, EPA, NOAA and more; end climate protections; end free and discounted school lunch programs. The list goes on — and on — and on.
I dare you to read the entire Project 2025 online.
One other tidbit: Peter Thiel, the billionaire who bought J.D.Vance for us and who is a co-founder of PayPal, Palintir Technology and is a proponent of AI takeover, WW3, and cult-building, has taken his family and moved lock, stock, and barrel to Argentina! (Just what does he know that we do not?) Do you remember from your history classes who fled to Argentina after WW2?
There you have it. I guess the road to greatness must begin with a project of some sort. My biggest concern/fear is — who gets to define that project, and who gets to define greatness?
Jeanne Tuka Schutz
Winona Lake, via email
