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What You Need to Know about Project 2025

The GOP's Radical Plans for America's Future

By 5 P.M. Tonight (01/28/25), in a Leaked Memo, the Trump Administration orders a freeze on all Federal Funding. Things like loans, grants, and national and international aid.

This includes but does not limit to programs relating to Medicaid and Childhood Cancer Research. From Head Start to Local Law Enforcement programs.

The Trump Administration plans to go through each program on a "case-by-case" basis to decide the funding.

Democrats and Various Legal Groups have come out against this calling for legal disputes and to halt Senate Confirmation Hearings until more information has been presented or the funding returns.

Photograph of Ceremony for National Head Start Day

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Last week, I wrote about the Heritage Foundation’s Saving America by Saving the American Family: A Plan for the Next 250 Years. The plan is, essentially, to make women drop out of school, marry young, have tons of babies, rely financially on their husbands, be unable to divorce, and wind up in the poor house if they don’t follow these rules. But I wanted to zero in specifically on the policy section of the piece, which comes at the very end and which I haven’t seen get the coverage it deserves. Because what the Heritage Foundation is proposing is a massive cash transfer from poor single mothers to better-off married couples. This really is the plan: Take from the poor to give to the “right” kind of families. Make poor mothers work, and pay better-off ones to stay home. Further impoverish single mothers to force them to marry.

The Heritage Foundation wants to eventually end cash welfare as we know it (“Credits designed specifically to benefit poor single mothers may be well intended, but they have proven to incentivize single motherhood in poor communities,” Heritage laments). They don’t propose totally doing away with welfare benefits here, I suspect because they realize that would be a nonstarter. But they do propose taking resources that currently mostly benefit poorer families and redirecting them to wealthier ones, so long as those wealthier families have married parents. The Heritage proposal would only give its proposed benefits to married couples (policies should “privilege marriage as directly and explicitly as possible,” Heritage writes, emphasis theirs). It would only give benefits to married couples in which one partner works and makes above a certain income. And it would incentivize women dropping out of the workforce… unless they’re poor or single.