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Project 2025 Season 3

Jul 08, 20241 hr 18 min
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Episode description

Project 2025[a] is a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power should the Republican nominee win the 2024 presidential election.[3][4] It proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of federal civil service workers as political appointees in order to replace them with people more willing to enact the next Republican president's proposals.[4] It asserts that the president has absolute power over the executive branch.[3][5] Project 2025's critics have characterized it as an authoritarianChristian nationalist plan to transform the U.S. into an autocracy.[6][7] Many legal experts have said it would undermine the rule of law, the separation of powersthe separation of church and state,[4][8] and civil liberties.[9]

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