Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” is Project 2025 in legislative form. Here’s how it quietly turns a far-right wishlist into federal law:
– Sec. 10008 – Expands work requirements for SNAP
– Project 2025: Pushes “moral reform” to make low-income people work more for food assistance.
– Sec. 10011 – Repeals education & obesity prevention grants
– Project 2025: Eliminates “social engineering” and funnels funding into “traditional values” education.
– Sec. 10012 – Restricts immigrant access to SNAP
– Project 2025: Blocks aid to undocumented and many legal immigrants.
– Sec. 20001 – Military expansion for “quality of life” and Indo-Pacific readiness
– Project 2025: Backs massive defense buildup, especially near China and the southern border.
Dozens of sections quietly restructure the federal government to match the far-right’s long-term goals:
– Guts environmental protections
– Sec. 42108: Repeals Clean Air Act provisions used to limit emissions.
– Sec. 42117: Eliminates environmental and climate justice block grants.
– Sec. 42301: Strips EPA authority to enforce vehicle emissions standards.
– Project 2025: Calls for dismantling the EPA and climate regulation entirely.
– Centralizes power in the executive
– Sec. 30051: Blocks executive agencies (like Education) from issuing new rules without meeting strict cost-benefit thresholds.
– Sec. 30061: Prohibits the Secretary of Education from proposing new regulations.
– Project 2025: Places all federal agencies under direct presidential control.
– Weakens federal worker protections
– Sec. 90004: Allows new federal hires to be fired at will—reviving “Schedule F.”
– Sec. 90005: Increases pension contributions for federal workers.
– Sec. 90006: Eliminates early retirement supplements.
– Project 2025: Aims to purge and replace career civil servants with political loyalists.
– Limits state authority
– Sec. 44001: Preempts state and local governments from regulating artificial intelligence for 10 years.
– Project 2025: Seeks centralized control when state laws conflict with federal priorities.
– Defunds watchdogs and public interest enforcement
– Sec. 51001: Defunds the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
– Sec. 52001: Cuts regulatory enforcement resources from oversight bodies like the PCAOB.
– Project 2025: Labels oversight and regulation as “deep state overreach.”
Note: We’ll have an entire post soon on Sec. 80121(h) – Judicial Preclusion, which strips courts of the power to review federal permits and approvals- effectively silencing judges on matters like drilling, leasing, and environmental enforcement.
This isn’t just another bill. It’s the Project 2025 playbook written into law. This bill abuses budget reconciliation rules to jam through non-budget items, like education authority rollbacks, environmental deregulation, and civil service purges. Read the fine print. Read the bill!
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