Joe Biden in Project 2025: The 2025 Presidential Transition Project


On Corporations: Revoked "management rights" in union collective bargaining

President Trump issued three executive orders:
  1. Executive Order 13836, encouraging agencies to renegotiate all union collective bargaining agreements to ensure consistency with the law and respect for management rights;
  2. Executive Order 13837, encouraging agencies to prevent union representatives from using official time preparing or pursuing grievances or from engaging in other union activity on government time; and
  3. Executive Order 13839, encouraging agencies both to limit labor grievances on removals from service or on challenging performance appraisals and to prioritize performance over seniority when deciding who should be retained following reductions-in-force.
All were revoked by the Biden Administration and should be reinstated by the next Administration
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.81-82 Apr 1, 2023

On Technology: Industries of the Future: robotics & green/clean products

(p.58): During the Trump and Biden Administrations, there has been a bipartisan focus on prioritizing R&D funding around the so-called Industries of the Future (IOTF). Under President Trump, IOTF priorities were artificial intelligence (AI), quantum information science (QIS), advanced communications/5G, advanced manufacturing, and biotechnology. Under President Biden, this list has been expanded to include advanced materials, robotics, battery technology, cybersecurity, green products and clean technology, plant genetics and agricultural technologies, nanotechnology, and semiconductor and microelectronics technologies. These priorities should be evaluated and narrowed to ensure consistency with the next Administration's priorities

(p.392): However, it would be important to guard against attempts to transform the strategy into a government-led industrial policy or, in a progressive Administration, an economy-wide climate policy.

Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p. 58&392 Apr 1, 2023

On Families & Children: Gender Policy Council: promote gender-affirming care

The President should immediately revoke Executive Order 14020 (signed by President Biden in 2021) and every policy, including subregulatory guidance documents, produced on behalf of or related to the establishment or promotion of the Gender Policy Council and its subsidiary issues. Abolishing the Gender Policy Council would eliminate central promotion of abortion ("health services"); comprehensive sexuality education ("education"); and the new woke gender ideology, which has as a principal tenet "gender affirming care" and "sex-change" surgeries on minors. In addition to eliminating the council, developing new structures and positions will have the dual effect of demonstrating that promoting life and strengthening the family is a priority while also facilitating more seamless coordination and consistency across the U.S. government.
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.62 Apr 1, 2023

On Government Reform: $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

On Homeland Security: Cancel Sea-Launched Cruise Missile-Nuclear program

Develop the Sea-Launched Cruise Missile-Nuclear (SLCM-N): In 2018, the Trump Administration proposed restoring the SLCM-N to help fill a growing gap in U.S. nonstrategic capabilities and improve deterrence against limited nuclear attack. The Biden Administration canceled this program in its 2022 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). The next President should support and accelerate funding for development of the SLCM-N with the goal of deployment by the end of the decade.
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.124 Apr 1, 2023

On Jobs: Loosen rules for federal employee disciplinary actions

CENTRAL PERSONNEL AGENCIES: In 2018, President Trump issued Executive Order 1383916 requiring agencies to reduce the time for employees to improve performance before corrective action could be taken; to initiate disciplinary actions against poorly performing employees more expeditiously; to reiterate that agencies are obligated to make employees improve; to reduce the time for employees to respond to allegations of poor performance; to mandate that agencies remind supervisors of expiring employee probationary periods; to prohibit agencies from entering into settlement agreements that modify an employee's personnel record; and to reevaluate procedures for agencies to discipline supervisors who retaliate against whistleblowers. Unfortunately, the order was overturned by the Biden Administration, so it will need to be reintroduced in 2025.
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p. 73 Apr 1, 2023

On Technology: Set up Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework

In 2022, the Biden Administration negotiated a new agreement, the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, intended to withstand European legal challenges. [President Biden's] Executive Order 14086, "Enhancing Safeguards for U.S. Signals Intelligence Activities," implements this new framework by attempting to align signals intelligence collection practices with European privacy regulations. At most, the executive order's changes will be helpful support for the framework in future European litigation; at worst, they could throw sand in the gears of important intelligence programs.

[The European Union] has always arbitraged the difference between being a military ally against, for example, Russia and conducting a full-blown trade conflict with the U.S. Restrictions on data exports have been part of the trade conflict, but now they could seriously harm our military and intelligence capabilities.

Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.225-6 Apr 1, 2023

On War & Peace: Eliminated most offensive deterrence capabilities

The Biden Administration has eliminated almost all offensive deterrence capabilities and instead will rely solely on defensive capabilities of disaggregation, maneuver, and reconstitution--the most costly, the slowest, and ultimately the most fragile architecture selection.
  1. Reestablish offensive capabilities to guarantee a favorable balance of forces, efficiently manage the full deterrence spectrum, and seriously complicate enemy calculations of a successful first strike against U.S. space assets.
  2. Restore architectural balance in U.S. space forces, both offensive and defensive, to restore deterrence dominance efficiently and quickly.
  3. Rapidly expand space control capability, to include cis-lunar space (the region beginning at geosynchronous altitude and encompassing the moon), to provide early warning of an enemy attack.
  4. Seek arms control and "rules of the road" understandings only when they are unambiguously in the interests of the U.S. and its allies.
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.117-18 Apr 1, 2023

On Abortion: Trump's second term takes away reproductive freedom

Because of Trump's bans, women are bleeding out in emergency rooms or forced to travel hundreds of miles to access life saving care. Doctors face life sentences in jail just for providing health care that they were trained to provide. And families' access to IVF treatments is in jeopardy. And Trump calls this "a beautiful thing to watch." But what Trump and his extreme allies have planned for a second term is even worse:And Trump and his allies don't need the help of Congress OR the courts to accomplish this. Joe Biden is standing up to them at every step. Joe Biden is protecting reproductive freedom. 
Source: Biden campaign response, www.TrumpsProject2025.com Jul 7, 2024

On Corporations: MAGA Project 2025: handouts to the ultra wealthy

Project 2025 is the plan by Donald Trump's MAGA Republican allies to give Trump more power over your daily life, gut democratic checks and balances, and consolidate power in the Oval Office if he wins. Trump's campaign advisors and close allies wrote it--and are doing everything they can to elect him so he can execute their playbook immediately. Where did Project 2025 come from? The highest levels of the MAGA Trump elite wrote Project 2025 as a blueprint for Trump to implement if he wins a second term. Fortunately, we have access to it in time to warn America and stop their power grab.
Source: Biden campaign response, www.TrumpsProject2025.com Jul 7, 2024

On Government Reform: 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

On Social Security: Never let Republicans cut Social Security 

Here are some of the ways in which Donald Trump and his extreme MAGA allies are planning to consolidate power:Meanwhile, Joe Biden has strengthened, protected, and expanded the Affordable Care Act. And he will never let Republicans cut Social Security or Medicare
Source: Biden campaign response, www.TrumpsProject2025.com Jul 7, 2024

On Civil Rights: Created Treasury office for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Under the Biden Administration, the Treasury Department has appointed a Counselor for Racial Equity, established an Advisory Committee on Racial Equity, and created an office for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility. All these should be eliminated. Treasury has created several new offices to promote "equity" and has made this its first of five strategic goals in its Fiscal Year 2022-2226 Strategic Plan. "Equity" is identified as a cross-cutting theme in 15 of 19 of the plan's objectives.

The avowed purpose of these initiatives is to implement policies that deliberately favor some races or ethnicities over others. The casual acceptance and rapid spread of racist policymaking in the federal government must be forcefully opposed and reversed. The next conservative Administration should take affirmative steps to expose and eradicate the practice of critical race theory and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) throughout the Treasury Department.

Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.708 Apr 1, 2023

The above quotations are from Mandate for Leadership: Project 2025.
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