Underscoring the Dangers of Project 2025
Project 2025 is a public policy road map over 900 pages long that is a threat to our children, families, and democracy overall. It promotes a powerful “unitary” President with complete control over all federal agencies with the elimination of a non-partisan, knowledgeable, professional civil service and suppression of the federal agencies which support a modern civil society. The Circle Project considers it a substantial threat to the stability, security, safety and freedom of opportunity for all Americans and their families. It will produce substantial trauma to children, adults and families. It neglects to respond to the needs of the majority of Americans who have trouble paying for food, gas, medical care, rent, child care; never mind saving for a mortgage, college, emergencies or retirement. Project 2025 rejects support for all but financially secure nuclear families, cutting social safety nets, disinvesting from public schools, and restricting reproductive rights. It is misogyny, seeing free women choosing lives outside of traditional marriage, or not having children, as a threat to American society.
Project 2025 is designed to eliminate or curtail the major national programs. For instance, Project 2025 would eliminate the federal Department of Education and Medicaid, markedly decreasing funding and increasing family support disparities across the nation. The framework also would eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and replace non-partisan civic workers with political operatives at every level of government to carry out this vision. The plan goes so far as to outline a vetting process for appointing, hiring and educating the “right people” in every level of government to carry out this vision.
Project 2025 constitutes a great threat to the health of all Americans. Together, the signatories to this statement, all devoted to nurturing and protecting the health and mental resilience of individuals and families, especially children, and promoting equity in opportunity for all Americans have joined together to declare that Project 2025 is a threat to the nation’s health and all citizens’ and families’ welfare. It is anti-democratic, a turn away from the possibility of equity, and a formula for an inhumane withdrawal of basic and necessary social, healthcare, and mental health services, civic structures, and family support for those in need that we have developed over three generations.
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The Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT) is sharing this statement on behalf of The Circle.
The Circle - Community for Inclusion, Resilience, Change, and Lasting Equity
A Coalition of Child and Family-Serving Agencies and Individuals Committed to Ending Interpersonal Violence, Abuse Across the Lifespan
We are a network of organizations and individuals who work with children, families, and communities to promote safety and reduce trauma, abuse and neglect across the lifespan. We seek to coordinate a response to Project 2025 as it relates to our particular focus on family and community welfare issues.