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Project 2025 vs. your values

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Linda M. Westrick

Boalsburg

Donald Trump's acolytes are preparing for a potential second Trump administration. Former and current Trump aides have a radical 920-page plan--Project 2025--with a long list of executive actions to be implemented immediately upon taking office--actions affecting Americans' everyday lives.

Before you cast your vote this November, consider how your values square with Project 2025.

Do you want:

-- Climate protections?

-- Social Security and Medicare when you're eligible?

-- Affordable health care of your choice?

-- Free, public education?

-- Federal agencies staffed by trained experts?

-- Free services provided by federal agencies, such as weather reports?

-- Temporary food assistance should you experience hardship, such as job loss or housing loss from a natural disaster?

-- Personal freedom to: read any book you want; plan your family, with access to contraceptives, IVF and emergency pregnancy care; marry the person you love; obtain needed health care (including reproductive and gender-related care); practice the religion of your choice (or no religion); peacefully protest injustice?

-- Economic justice through a fair tax system?

-- Worker protections, including fair wages, union rights and child labor laws?

If you answered "yes" to any question, you'll be seriously hurt by a future Trump administration. Not only will Trump discard precious individual freedoms, he'll totally control independent agencies. With SCOTUS recently granting him broad immunity, he has the power of a king, free from Congressional oversight--a terrifying proposition for a perennial self-dealer! Don't let that happen!

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