Trump’s ‘Project 2025’ Threatens Hard-Won Rights and Freedoms
Editorial StaffDonald Trump and his supporters are targeting AFSCME with plans to dismantle public service unions. This move is just one aspect of Trump's comprehensive plan for a second term, detailed in a sprawling 900-page document.
The plan, known as Project 2025, aims to drastically shift power from working people to the president, granting him unprecedented control. Crafted by Trump’s top advisors, this radical agenda is set to be implemented from Day One if he returns to office.
Research by AFSCME indicates that Project 2025 would significantly harm workers by:
- Allowing states to ban private sector labor unions
- Making it easier for corporations to fire workers involved in collective action or organizing
- Permitting corporations to dissolve unions even with a signed union contract in place
- Mandating secret ballot elections for union formation, regardless of employer recognition
- Eliminating overtime protections
- Disregarding the federal minimum wage
- Scrapping the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, adding to the debt burden of many AFSCME members
- Abolishing merit-based staffing in the federal government to replace qualified employees with loyalists
- Slashing health care and retirement benefits, and removing child labor protections in hazardous industries
Trump’s broader Project 2025 agenda presents a sinister blueprint, threatening to transform the federal government, dismantle public education, devastate the economy, and undermine reproductive rights and immigration policies. It aims to strip freedoms while favoring the wealthy.
Moreover, Project 2025 would dismantle key Biden administration policies that AFSCME members have supported and fought for:
- Reversing progress in reducing prescription drug costs, including repealing the $35 monthly cap on insulin for Medicare seniors
- Ending government negotiations on drug prices and lifting Medicare’s $2,000 annual cap on out-of-pocket drug expenses starting in 2025
- Terminating the Head Start program, which benefits over 833,000 children in poverty and employs many AFSCME members
AFSCME has created a website to inform the public about Project 2025 and Trump’s MAGA agenda. To prevent this imperial presidency plan, it is crucial to vote for pro-worker candidates in the upcoming elections.
