Project 2025: The 2025 Presidential Transition Project: on Government Reform


Heritage Foundation: Correcting mail-in ballots counts as voter fraud

 Voter fraud includes unlawful practices concerning voter registration and ballot correction. The Help America Vote Act of 2002 mandates provisional ballots only for eligible voters who were not on a state's voter registration list. It does not apply to those who registered for mail-in voting but whose ballots were rejected due to some form of spoliation. 

The law in Pennsylvania clearly states that no county may affirmatively provide provisional ballots: The mail-in voter must vote in person and sign a new affidavit. In the 2020 election, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recognized that "the Election Code contains no requirement that voters whose ballots are deemed inadequately verified be apprised of this fact. Thus, unlike in-person voters, mail-in or absentee voters are not provided any opportunity to cure perceived defects in a timely manner." The Pennsylvania Secretary of State should have been (and still should be) investigated and prosecuted for potential violations of 18 US Code S241.

Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.563-4 Apr 1, 2023

Heritage Foundation: Terminate federal FEMA emergency grants; switch to states

FEMA manages all grants for DHS, and these grants have become pork for states, localities, and special-interest groups. Since 2002, DHS/FEMA have provided more than $56 billion in preparedness grants for state, local, tribal, and territorial governments. For FY 2023, President Biden requested more than $3.5 billion for federal assistance grants.

Funds provided under these programs do not provide measurable gains for preparedness or resiliency. Rather, more than any objective needs, political interests appear to direct the flow of non-disaster funds. States better understand their unique needs and should bear the costs of their particularized programs. FEMA employees in Washington should not determine how billions of federal tax dollars should be awarded. DHS should not be in the business of handing out federal tax dollars: These grants should be terminated. Accomplishing this, however, will require action by Members of Congress who repeatedly vote to fund grants for political reasons.

Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.154 Apr 1, 2023

Joe Biden: $3.5B in FEMA emergency grants for 2023

FEMA manages all grants for DHS, and these grants have become pork for states, localities, and special-interest groups. Since 2002, DHS/FEMA have provided more than $56 billion in preparedness grants for state, local, tribal, and territorial governments. For FY 2023, President Biden requested more than $3.5 billion for federal assistance grants.

Funds provided under these programs do not provide measurable gains for preparedness or resiliency. Rather, more than any objective needs, political interests appear to direct the flow of non-disaster funds. States better understand their unique needs and should bear the costs of their particularized programs. FEMA employees in Washington should not determine how billions of federal tax dollars should be awarded. DHS should not be in the business of handing out federal tax dollars: These grants should be terminated. Accomplishing this, however, will require action by Members of Congress who repeatedly vote to fund grants for political reasons. T

Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.154 Apr 1, 2023

Joe Biden: Protect democracy against MAGA's Project 2025

Donald Trump and his MAGA allies plan to reward political violence, prosecute political opponents, and pardon January 6 insurrectionists:While Donald Trump and his MAGA allies attack our democracy, Joe Biden is protecting it.
Source: Biden campaign response, www.TrumpsProject2025.com Jul 7, 2024

Heritage Foundation: Fire federal employees who participate in CRT or DEI

Under the Biden Administration, the Treasury Department has established an Advisory Committee on Racial Equity, and created an office for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEI). All these should be eliminated. The next conservative Administration should take affirmative steps to expose and eradicate the practice of critical race theory and DEI throughout the Treasury Department.
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.708 Apr 1, 2023

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