Donald Trump
and Project 2025
My sense is that the actual agenda of the Trump administration, leaving aside the flashiness and harm of Elon Musk, is to implement Project 2025.
It was drawn up by the Heritage Foundation whose president Kevin Roberts described it as a “second American Revolution which will be bloodless … if the left allows it to be.”
Here, for the information of Tribune-Herald readers, are some items from Project 2025, which has a hard right agenda.
The agenda is largely being implemented by Russell Vought, now director of the Office of Management and Budget. He has been given oversight of other agencies and departments, including independent agencies such as the Federal Reserve.
Donald Trump has, in one month, signed 70-plus executive orders, which are given to him in presentation folders for video as he signs them.
The start of Project 2025 is a chapter on Deconstruction of the Administrative State written by Vought. It advises: Purge 50,000 federal workers; implement Schedule F to reclassify thousands of civil servants as political appointees; expand use of the Insurrection Act to permit U.S. military at the border and, perhaps, quell unrest; install political loyalists without Senate confirmation; limit congressional oversight. Overhaul the Department of Justice; allow the president to withhold congressional-approved funds; outsource critical government functions to conservatively aligned private entities.
Other provisions of Project 2025: Defund NPR and PBS; dismantle NOAA, which does weather forecasts and covers ocean resources; explore alternatives to the Federal Reserve and delete it as lender of last resort; remove protections for students with disabilities, minority and low-income students. Etc.
Rather depressing.
Judy Graham
Waimea
Good experience
at Kona’s hospital
We have a gem in our midst that often goes unrecognized and under appreciated.
I recently had the good fortune go to Kona Community Hospital with an acute appendicitis.
My symptoms were highly unusual, but the ER doctor made a quick and accurate diagnosis and my surgery experience was uneventful.
Every single employee I encountered treated me with respect, kindness and professionalism.
As a former hospital nurse who worked at several community hospitals, I know that these small hospitals often get a bad rap for really no good reason.
Is the building old and a bit shabby? Yes, but the care is top notch, and that is what really matters.
I am so grateful that Kona Community Hospital is there for me and my community.
Shana Williams
Kailua-Kona
