Corporate backers of the Donald Trump campaign have tipped their hand. In “Project 2025: Presidential Transition Project,” the Heritage Foundation unveiled its 900-page wish list for a new Trump presidency and a compliant Supreme Court.
Trump’s victory last time was a surprise, and many corporate types view his chaotic term as a missed opportunity. This time Heritage, which is a mouthpiece for big employers, has compiled a long list of people they want Trump to hire and appoint, and a scorched-earth plan for his first 180 days.
Day one, they want to fire the best National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) general counsel we’ve had in my lifetime, Jennifer Abruzzo.
Then Project 2025 foresees reclassifying thousands of civil service employees by executive order so they can be fired and replaced with the corporations’ loyal troops.
From there, the plan is to bulldoze the protections US workers have built up over one hundred years of determination, sacrifice, and unity.
It’s ugly: abolish overtime pay laws, outlaw public sector unions entirely, get rid of health and safety protections, eliminate the federal minimum wage, make it harder to receive unemployment, and put children back to work like in the 1920s.
Hitting building trades workers, they would get rid of requirements for prevailing wage pay and project labor agreements in federal projects.
There’s more. They want to get rid of the Department of Education. Ban teaching women’s history and African American history in schools — lest we get ideas about how to change things! Ban abortion nationwide. (The AFL-CIO details the whole alarming list here.)
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Auteur: Jenny Brown
