‘End Every Civil Rights Department in Every Federal Agency’: Journalist on Project 2025’s ‘Harmful’ Policies
Manifesto would provide blueprint for Trump to enact sweeping far-right agenda
Among the voluminous far-right goals of Project 2025 would be to end a swath of federal civil rights protections Black Americans have today.
That’s according to Black journalist Michael Harriot, columnist at TheGrio.
An incredibly detailed, 900-plus page, right-wing policy blueprint to drastically reshape the federal government should Donald Trump be inaugurated as president next year, general interest in Project 2025 has surged in recent weeks.
Organized by the far-right think tank Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 lays out a plan, including further limits on national abortion rights, rollbacks of environmental protection and action on global climate change, curtailed civil rights and much more.
Although Trump has attempted to distance himself from Project 2025, it was created and drafted by many of his closest political advisors including a number likely to play key roles in a second Trump administration.
Harriot was asked in a TV interview to detail just a few of the new changes Project 2025 would introduce to curtail rights Black Americans currently enjoy.
“Three of the worst are the efforts to basically end every civil rights department in every federal agency,” he said. “We know that there is a civil rights department in the [Justice Department] but there’s also one in the Department of Education which he wants to end. He also wants to end the federal procurement discrimination policies.
“But the worst of all is the effort to include what they call school choice, which is basically the privatization of every school district in America,” Harriot added. “So those are the three things, just among the three things that are harmful to African Americans.”
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