Project 2025 Myth v Fact

A 4 page Myth v Fact for Project 2025

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Project 2025 is a coalition of more than 110 conservative organizations preparing to offer recommendations

to the next conservative president. The Project was launched in 2022, before any major candidate announced

a campaign, to assist the next conservative president. Project 2025 does not speak for any candidate or

campaign, rather it is a collection of conservative policy proposals the groups united behind the effort would

like to see enacted. While the Left is spreading falsehoods and mischaracterizing Project 2025’s policy agenda,

we’ve put together the facts.

The Left claims that Project 2025 and

Mandate for Leadership

would:

Project 2025 actually represents an attempt to

restore Constitutional governance,

not terminate it. Bringing

the administrative state more firmly under the control of the president, whose authority traces directly from

the Constitution, could not be further from terminating this quintessential founding document.

Project 2025’s

Mandate for Leadership

does not advocate

for banning books or curriculum about slavery.

Project 2025 aims to

weaken the bureaucracy

that churns out tens of thousands of pages of rules every year.

A more restrained administrative state translates into less control over Americans’ daily lives, not more.

The

only people calling for packing the judiciary are those on the Left,

who do it every time the Supreme

Court or a lower court makes decisions they don’t like.

Project 2025 aims to protect democracy by

restoring traditional checks and balances

between the President,

Congress, and the Courts. We advocate making the administrative state more accountable by restoring the

president’s control over the bureaucrats in the Executive Branch.

Project 2025’s

Mandate for Leadership

calls for

respecting the civil rights of all Americans,

including those

who have been censored by the government or had it weaponized against them.

Mandate

advocates for the

end of divisive, race-based, anti-American propaganda

in the federal workforce.

Terminate the Constitution:

FALSE

Ban books and curriculum about slavery:

FALSE

Give the Government more power over your daily life:

FALSE

Pack the Supreme Court and lower courts with right-wing judges:

FALSE

Gut democratic checks and balances on presidential power:

FALSE

End civil rights:

FALSE

Debunking the Lies About Project 2025:

MYTH

vs.

FACT

Government

Civil Rights

Project 2025’s

Mandate for Leadership

advocates for the

end of divisive, race-based, anti-American

propaganda like DEI

in the federal workforce.

The appropriateness of capital punishment divides Americans, and conservatives, of good will. Project

2025’s

Mandate for Leadership

calls for the enforcement of the federal death penalty

where appropriate

and applicable

, and recommends a future presidential administration pursue the death penalty for the most

heinous crimes, including those involving violence and the sexual abuse of children, unless Congress says

otherwise through legislation.

End DEI protections in government:

TRUE

Promote and expedite capital punishment:

TRUE

Project 2025’s

Mandate for Leadership

makes

no cuts to any veteran benefits.

It does propose reforms to

the VA to deliver improved care in a more efficient and timely fashion to America’s veterans. The VA has long

been mismanaged and has not served our nation’s veterans for some time now. Project 2025

demands that

the VA improves and modernizes.

The VA needs more aggressive recruitment of doctors, mental health professionals, and other staff to meet

urgent needs at overburdened care centers. VHA centers should be required to see more patients per day.

All VA medical centers should consider extending weekday hours and adding Saturday hours to meet excess

capacity or delay in care for veterans. The VA should improve the timeliness of claim adjudication and benefits

delivery to deliver benefits without frustrating delays. Most importantly, the VA should develop a new pilot

“Express 30” commitment to complete a veteran’s first disability claim in 30 days

Cut military benefits for veterans and service members including
housing, TRICARE, retirement, and secondary education:

FALSE

Military & Veterans

Divorce is

not mentioned

in Project 2025’s

Mandate for Leadership

.

Project 2025’s

Mandate for Leadership

says nothing

about banning or restricting contraception.

IVF is

not mentioned

anywhere in Project 2025’s

Mandate for Leadership.

The legal recognition of same-sex marriage is

not discussed

in Project 2025’s

Mandate for Leadership

.

Mandate

calls for the

protection of faith-based grant recipients

who maintain support for the traditional definition of

marriage.

Mandate

also

supports conscience protections

for those who do not wish to participate in same-

sex marriages.

Project 2025’s

Mandate for Leadership

calls for the government to comply with laws that prevent federal

funding of abortion. It also calls for

federal support for alternatives to abortion

, including adoption.

End no-fault divorce:

FALSE

Ban contraceptives:

FALSE

Ban IVF:

FALSE

End “marriage equality”:

FALSE

Complete ban on abortions without exceptions:

FALSE

Marriage & Family

Project 2025’s

Mandate for Leadership

suggests that a future HHS Secretary replace the policies of the

Biden administration that prioritize LGBTQ+ equality, subsidize single motherhood, disincentivize work, and

penalize marriage with

policies that instead encourage marriage, work, motherhood, fatherhood, and

nuclear families.

Condemn single mothers while promoting only
“traditional families”:

FALSE

Project 2025’s

Mandate for Leadership

calls for the

criminalization of pornography production, distribution,

and consumption.

Pornography has no claim to First Amendment protection and its purveyors are child

predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as

psychologically destructive as any crime.

Outlaw pornography:

TRUE

Project 2025’s

Mandate for Leadership

offers policy suggestions to

curb the abuses

of the Affordable Care

Act.

Project 2025’s

Mandate for Leadership

advocates that the Food and Nutrition Service be moved from the

Department of Agriculture to the Department of Health and Human Services.

Mandate

condemns the Biden

administration’s decision to threaten schools

that do not comply with radical transgender policies by taking

away their funding for school meals for needy students. Additionally,

Mandate

supports

prioritizing school

meal programs for those students who are truly needy by reforming or eliminating the often-misused

Community Eligibility Program

, which creates an entitlement for many students regardless of family income

levels.

Project 2025’s

Mandate for Leadership

offers proposals to

lower drug prices

through competition and

innovation.

Americans are able to use taxpayer money to choose where they shop for groceries, attain housing, and

obtain higher education. Religious schools often outperform public schools, and

families should have the

choice

to send their children to these schools.

Project 2025’s

Mandate for Leadership

calls for the

end of the Department of Education.

Since the

Department was created,

educational outcomes have not improved

, and the American school system has

increasingly fallen behind other countries. Giving

more control back to state and local governments, and

expanding school choice

, would improve education outcomes for all Americans, especially underprivileged

communities. Some functions of the Department would be moved to other departments including Labor,

Justice, and Commerce.

End the Affordable Care Act:

FALSE

End free and discounted school lunch programs:

FALSE

Raise prescription drug prices:

FALSE

Use public, taxpayer money for private religious schools:

TRUE

Shut down the Department of Education:

TRUE

Healthcare

Education

Project 2025’s

Mandate for Leadership

does not advocate cutting Social Security.

Even liberal CNN’s fact

checkers have confirmed this, stating unambiguously: “Fact check: Harris falsely claims Project 2025 blueprint

calls for cutting Social Security.”

America needs energy that is plentiful and affordable. Project 2025’s

Mandate for Leadership

calls for an

all-of-the-above energy policy that would promote the development of our domestic energy supply, and for

fewer burdensome regulations for ALL businesses

.

Project 2025’s

Mandate for Leadership

supports an

orderly and lawful immigration system

. It advocates

that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of Removal Operations be primarily responsible for

enforcing civil immigration regulations, including the

removal of those who have violated our immigration

laws

. It also calls for additional resources to

put an end to Joe Biden’s border crisis and enforce immigration

laws.

Project 2025’s

Mandate for Leadership

presents different ideas about a

conservative labor policy

. It calls

for

combatting the excesses

of the Deep State’s bloated federal employee unions, which have ensured that

federal employees keep their jobs even if they engage in illegal behavior or perform their jobs poorly.

The Arctic is of immense strategic importance to America. Project 2025’s

Mandate for Leadership

advocates

a strong pursuit of American interests in the region, through economic freedom; through

ensuring free and

open shipping lanes

; and through the

development of the vast energy resources of the Arctic

.

Raising the retirement age is

nowhere advocated

in Project 2025’s

Mandate for Leadership

.

Project 2025’s

Mandate for Leadership

does not advocate

cutting Medicare.

Cut Social Security:

FALSE

Deregulate big business and the oil industry:

MOSTLY TRUE

Mass deportation of illegal immigrants:

TRUE

Eliminate unions and worker protections:

FALSE

Increase Arctic Drilling:

TRUE

Raise the retirement age:

FALSE

Last updated August 1, 2024. For the most up to date version, go to project2025.org/truth

Cut Medicare:

FALSE

Healthcare

Energy & Environment

Immigration

Project2025.org

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