Democrats are preparing to hang the right-wing "Project 2025" agenda around the necks of Republican congressional candidates heading into the election.
The Heritage Foundation think tank has been plotting a dramatic overhaul of the federal government to accompany a second Donald Trump presidency by filling civil service jobs with loyalists, restricting access to abortion and kneecapping the government's ability to address climate change — and Democrats plan to turn those plans into a key campaign issue, reported The Daily Beast.
"In a memo to donors obtained by The Daily Beast, House Majority PAC, the [Democratic] Party’s main super PAC for House races, framed the fight to flip the chamber as a crucial opportunity to reject the Project 2025 agenda," the website reported. "The PAC did so by outlining where Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and the GOP conference align with key planks of the proposed foundations of a second Trump administration."
Project 2025 has proposed using the 19th-century Comstock Act, which restricts sending "immoral" materials through the Postal Service, to stop abortion pills from being mailed — which more than half of the House GOP conference have signed on to a U.S. Supreme Court brief justifying the use of that law to limit mail distribution of the abortion drug mifepristone.
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The House Majority PAC memo also cites House Republican support for reinstating Trump's 2020 order to strip civil service protections to allow his administration to replace career bureaucrats with loyalists.
Johnson promoted legislation in October 2020, when he was head of the Republican Study Committee, to create a new “Schedule F” federal employment category that would make those career bureaucrats easier to fire.
"House Majority PAC pleaded with donors to support the group, which specializes in running TV attacks on GOP candidates, 'so we have the resources necessary to stop Project 2025, win back the House, and elect Speaker Hakeem Jeffries,'" the Beast reported.
