The complete series can be read here:
Project 2025: Just Facts, No Hype
Section 1: Taking the Reins of Government
Section 3: The General Welfare
Section 5: Independent Regulatory Agencies
SECTION 3: THE GENERAL WELFARE appears to focus on domestic policy and social welfare issues, covering areas such as agriculture, education, energy, environment, health, housing, labor, and transportation.
The inclusion of these departments suggests a comprehensive approach to addressing the general welfare of U.S. citizens. Here’s a summary of the Departments addressed:
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Education
- Department of Energy and Related Commissions
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Department of the Interior
- Department of Justice
- Department of Labor and Related Agencies
- Department of Transportation
The section on “The General Welfare” covers a wide range of domestic issues through its focus on various federal departments. Here are some specific examples of how these areas might be affected based on the conservative approach outlined in the document:
Agriculture: Potential changes could include reducing farm subsidies, deregulating agricultural practices, or reforming food stamp programs.
Education: This might involve reducing federal involvement in education policy, promoting school choice initiatives, or scaling back federal student loan programs.
Energy: Policies could focus on increasing domestic energy production, reducing environmental regulations, or scaling back renewable energy incentives.
Environmental Protection: The EPA’s role might be significantly reduced, with fewer regulations on businesses and a shift towards state-level environmental management.
Health and Human Services: This could involve attempts to repeal or significantly modify the Affordable Care Act, reform Medicare and Medicaid, or reduce federal funding for public health initiatives.
Housing and Urban Development: Potential changes might include reducing federal housing assistance programs or shifting more responsibility to state and local governments.
Interior: This could involve opening more federal lands for resource extraction, reducing national monument designations, or transferring more land management to states.
Justice: Changes might focus on shifting priorities in law enforcement, modifying civil rights enforcement, or altering immigration enforcement policies.
Labor: This could involve reducing federal labor regulations, modifying minimum wage laws, or changing policies related to unions and collective bargaining.
Transportation: Potential changes might include reducing federal infrastructure spending, privatizing certain transportation services, or deregulating aspects of the transportation industry.
These examples illustrate how the conservative approach outlined in the document could lead to significant changes across a wide range of domestic issues, generally aiming to reduce federal government involvement and shift more responsibility to state governments, private sector entities, or individuals.
This aligns with the document’s overall theme of dismantling the “administrative state” and returning power to elected officials and away from federal agencies[1].