How Democrats are plotting against Project 2025, the ‘dystopian’ manifesto for Trump’s second term

A group of House Democrats have launched a task force to combat a right-wing think tank’s roadmap for Donald Trump’s agenda if he returns to the White House.

Project 2025 — a blueprint for Trump’s presidency spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation and Trump’s former aides and allies — is essentially a wishlist for his administration with plans to expand his executive authority and replace civil servants with ideologically aligned appointees.

At the core of the plan is the gutting of checks and balances that would give Trump unprecedented, concentrated executive authority over federal agencies.

As The Independent previously reported, the plan would roll out a blitzkrieg of firings across federal agencies to open the door for an army of Trump loyalists to weaponize the government against his rivals.

The plan recommends abolishing the US Department of Education, slashing funds for federal law enforcement agencies, and subverting agencies that regulate the airwaves and campaign financing to choke out dissent.

That consolidation of power would also insulate him against legal threats and usher in a wave of attacks against immigrants, reproductive healthcare and civil rights protections for LGBT+ people.

House Democrats led by California Rep. Jared Huffman created a Stop Project 2025 Task Force to coordinate with members of Congress, pro-democracy and civil rights groups and impacted communities “to coordinate on examining, highlighting, preempting, and counteracting this right-wing plot to undermine democracy.”

“Project 2025 is more than an idea, it’s a dystopian plot that’s already in motion to dismantle our democratic institutions, abolish checks and balances, chip away at church-state separation, and impose a far-right