Capitol Hill Hearing Exposes Project 2025 as an Extreme Republican Agenda

North Bay Congressman Jared Huffman’s Stop Project 2025 Task Force held its first congressional hearing on Tuesday focused on exposing the nearly one thousand-page conservative playbook many see as a sweeping MAGA manifesto.

For two hours on Capitol Hill, Congressman Huffman joined the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee in a multimedia presentation and testimony that directly targeted the blueprint fueled by former Trump administration officials and led by the Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank.

Huffman called the plan for the next Republican president breathtakingly extreme, noting that the final of its four “pillars” — the “Playbook” — is left conspicuously secret, only to be revealed upon the “President’s utterance of ‘So help me God.’”

“Firing tens of thousands of career civil servants and then replacing them with MAGA loyalists,” Huffman said, “directing the FBI, the Justice Department and the IRS to investigate Trump’s perceived enemies … even deploying active duty military on our streets is downright scary.”

Project 2025 outlines an ambitious right-wing agenda to reshape the American government, blurring church and state while curtailing rights for many individuals. Key proposals include a nationwide FDA ban on abortion medication, the elimination of Head Start and the removal of a daily overtime requirement for workers.

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By:  Sara Hossaini
Source: KQED

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