Project 2029

Foreword

Ronald Reagan’s presidency marked the beginning of the modern conservative movement and departure from decades of widely shared American prosperity following WWII. The Reagan revolution began a concerted campaign to dismantle America’s social safety nets, consumer protections, education, and thriving middle class.

Reagan wanted to eliminate the Department of Education and worked to dismantle public education. Student financial aid was replaced by student debt. Regan advisor, Roger A. Freeman stated, “We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That’s dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow”. This strategy has worked well for conservatives who enjoy broad support amongst uneducated voters, and even Donald Trump lamented, “Smart people don’t like me”. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/D3J4CGed4io

The national debt increased more under Ronald Reagan than any president since the great depression over 186%. He justified massive tax cuts for the wealthy by claiming it would trickle down. The wealthy hoarded money and began outsourcing American manufacturing.

Reagan promoted the narrative of “the welfare queen” and exaggerated the story of an African American woman who abused the welfare system in 1970, 10 years before his presidency. He used her story to attack social entitlements and justify cutting them to pay for massive tax cuts he gave the wealthy.

Reagan flooded minority communities with crack and started the war on drugs to imprison minorities and build an enslaved work force. Reagan doubled prison populations during his term in office.

Reagan’s Collusion to become President

Miraculously minutes after Regan was sworn in as President Iran released American hostages abducted during Jimmy Carters administration! Before the election Regan’s campaign chairman and director of the CIA, William Casey promised Iran a big payoff if they kept the American hostages and released them after the election. This maybe a bit of hyperbole

Reagan supported American engagement in a Nicaraguan conflict. Congress passed an amendment prohibiting American involvement. Reagan defied congress and secretly sold weapons to Iran to fund CIA tampering operations in Nicaragua. Reagan violated an international embargo on trade with Iran and contravened congress.

Conservatives learned from Reagan that presidential abuses and violations of law come have minimal repercussions. Conservative criminality since Reagan has escalated to the point that a convicted felon is now the elected president.

Conservative Accusations are Admissions

Conservative politicians claim to be everything they aren’t and accuse liberals of their own improprieties.

• Washington DC elites

• Pedophiles who run underground child sex rings (including the President)

• Totalitarians

• Weak on crime

• Fiscally reckless

• Bad for the economy

• Radical domestic terrorists

• Harm the working class

Liberal politicians are very good for the economy, create jobs, are fiscally responsible, fight for workers and consumer protections, strong on crime, advance American democracy and freedom.

Conservative politicians and media have nothing positive to offer and depend on misdirection, fear, and fighting imaginary threats.

Conservative leaders are servants of the oligarchy. It has been over 30 years since conservatives passed legislation that only benefited the middle class or poor.

Conservative Promises

Project 2025 claims these four conservative promises are broad fronts and their moral foundation. Selected excerpts from project 2025 promises are quoted.

1. Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.

“eliminating marriage penalties in federal welfare programs and the tax code and installing work requirements for food stamps”

“deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights”

2. Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the American people.

“the surest way to put the federal government back to work for the American people is to reduce its size and scope back”

3. Defend our nation’s sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats.

“the woke Left today seeks a world, bound by global treaties they write, in which they exercise dictatorial powers over all nations without being subject to democratic accountability”

“progressive Left so cavalierly supports open borders”

“the Left’s love affair with environmental extremism”

“American dominance of the global energy market would be a good thing … higher wages for workers who didn’t go to college”

4. Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely—what our Constitution calls “the Blessings of Liberty.”

“Religious devotion and spirituality are the greatest sources of happiness around the world. Still others find themselves happiest in their local voluntary communities of friends, their neighbors, their civic or charitable work.”

“the American people rejected European monarchy and colonialism just as we rejected slavery, second-class citizenship for women, mercantilism, socialism, Wilsonian globalism, Fascism, Communism, and (today) wokeism. To the Left, these assertions of patriotic self-assurance are just so many signs of our moral depravity and intellectual inferiority—proof that, in fact, we need a ruling elite making decisions for us.”

“countries with a high degree of economic freedom, elites are not in charge because everyone is in charge. People work, build, invest, save, and create according to their own interests and in service to the common good of their fellow citizens”

“the Left does not believe that all men are created equal—they think they are special. They certainly don’t think all people have an unalienable right to pursue the good life. They think only they themselves have such a right along with a moral responsibility to make decisions for everyone else. They don’t think any citizen, state, business, church, or charity should be allowed any freedom until they first bend the knee”

Project 2025 devotes an inordinate amount of time attacking liberals and making baseless accusations that often appear to be admissions of their own guilt. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nn7Io5hoN5s

Conservatives first promise to restore families and protect children by installing work requirements for food stamps and censoring words. The starting point to resist woke culture warriors is deleting words like sexual orientation, gender, DEI and in the same sentence they claim these words are used to deprive Americans of first amendment rights.

Why does protecting conservative first amendment rights require denying woke culture warriors their first amendment rights? What makes conservatives so special that their rights trump liberal rights?

The second conservative promise is to dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance. “The surest way to put the federal government back to work for the American people is to reduce its size and scope back.” Is that how things work? Wouldn’t reducing the size and scope of government be contrary to putting government back to work for people?

“In the case of making the federal government smaller, more effective, and accountable, the simple answer is the Constitution itself. The surest proof of this is how strenuously and creatively generations of progressives and many Republican insiders have worked to cut themselves free from the strictures of the 1789 Constitution and subsequent amendments.”

The simple answer this suggests is to terminate the constitution.

The third conservative promise is to protect national sovereignty, boarders, and bounty against foreign threats. This promise makes rambling attacks against liberals and China. One policy goal is mentioned to achieve “American dominance of the global energy market would be a good thing … higher wages for workers who didn’t go to college”

U.S. Oil Production declines under Republican Presidents and increases under Democratic presidents. Democrats are doing a better job of achieving American dominance of the global energy market.

The fourth promise is to secure conservative’s god given right to live freely. “The Left does not believe that all men are created equal—they think they are special. They certainly don’t think all people have an unalienable right to pursue the good life. They think only they themselves have such a right along with a moral responsibility to make decisions for everyone else. They don’t think any citizen, state, business, church, or charity should be allowed any freedom until they first bend the knee”. This accusation is a concise description and admission of what conservatives and Trump are doing in America.

Project 2029 — “Democracy, Abundance, Dignity”

Floor strategy (how we pass it)

• Opening-day Rules Package

  • Single-subject rule with germaneness to block poison pills; structured rules to speed floor action on the 10 “Jobs & Freedom” bills listed below.

  • “Fast-track” House procedure for voting-rights, antitrust, and labor-rights bills (modeled on reconciliation clocks).

  • Two reconciliation vehicles in Year 1: one for tax/healthcare/education, one for industrial & climate investment, each drafted to avoid Byrd Rule casualties.

• Court-proofing playbook

  • Express statutory delegations, strong factual records, and fallback severability; avoid over-broad agency leaps that trigger the major-questions doctrine. (Congress.gov)

• Article III awareness

  • Court size is set by statute (Congress has changed it before); jurisdictional and structural levers are available to Congress. Term limits likely need an amendment (there’s a live scholarly debate about a statutory “active service + senior status” model). (Congress.gov)

Title I — Tax Justice & Productive Investment

Statutory package: the “Fair Work & Growth Act.”

• Reverse high-income TCJA cuts; restore top marginal rates and close pass-through shelters; index corporate minimum tax upward.

• Zero federal income tax on typical middle-class wages (phase-out at higher incomes).

• Eliminate the Social Security wage cap; credit earnings; strengthen solvency.

• End perverse subsidies:

  • Wage-dumping charge on firms whose workers rely on means-tested benefits; receipts fund EITC expansion and fair-wage grants.

  • Anti-offshoring excise: deny deductions and impose surtax on expenses that outsource core jobs; mirror rules for contract manufacturing abroad.

• Positive levers:

  • Performance-based manufacturing credit (domestic content, uptime, export intensity).

  • Workforce Acceleration Fund (joint employer–union–school consortia building industry-wide curricula for modern trades).

  • Universal healthcare transition financing (see Title IV).

• Tax capital fairly: align top capital-gains/dividends with ordinary rates; mark-to-market above a wealth threshold; close “secured-borrowing” cash-out arbitrage by treating it as income when economically equivalent to a sale; modernize estate tax with higher top brackets and valuation integrity.

• AI Displacement Insurance: small payroll-style contribution on firms showing net task automation without wage redeployment; receipts fund rapid re-skilling & wage bridges.

Administrative day-one actions: Treasury/IRS enforcement surge on abusive basis step-ups, transfer-pricing, and wash-sale crypto schemes; publish regs roadmap with specific deadlines (within explicit statutory authority to avoid major-questions snags). (Congress.gov)

Title II — Education for Citizenship & Skilled Prosperity

Bills

• Civics for All Act: a national K-12 civics & media-literacy baseline with state choice on delivery; funds tied to evidence-based curricula.

• Trades & Tech Pathways Act: federal matching to stand up dual-track high school diplomas (AP/IB + skilled trades), paid pre-apprenticeships, and modern CTE labs.

• Debt-Free College Compact: federal–state partnership to make in-state public tuition $0 for families under a generous income cap; living-stipend pilots tied to completion metrics.

Administrative

• ED issues model civics frameworks; expands apprenticeship standards with DOL; strengthens gainful-employment/90-10 enforcement for quality.

Title III — Courts & Rule-of-Law

Bills

• Supreme Court Integrity & Capacity Act:

  • Expand SCOTUS to 13 by statute; stagger two seats per term for two terms.

  • Binding ethics code & transparency (recusal, gifts, amicus disclosure).

  • 18-year active service with senior status thereafter (paired with a constitutional term-limits amendment referral to the states).

  • Clarify jurisdiction & recusal review mechanisms and enforceable compliance office.

  • Tight, constitutional drafting acknowledging Congress’s historical power over Court size and jurisdiction; term-limits change proceeds as an amendment to avoid litigation over “good Behaviour.” (Congress.gov)

Title IV — Health & Bodily Autonomy

Bills

• American Care Act: universal coverage via a national plan (auto-enrollment, negotiated rates, supplemental private options); drug price negotiation, site-neutral payments, and admin simplification fund coverage.

• Reproductive Freedom Act: codifies reproductive care access nationwide and advances a constitutional amendment recognizing bodily autonomy.

• Mental & Primary Care Surge: loan-forgiveness and rural/underserved bonuses; parity with enforcement teeth.

Administrative

• HHS issues non-discrimination, EMTALA, and telehealth access rules; rebuilds Title X; accelerates generic/biologic competition under clear statutory hooks.

Title V — Democracy & Worker Power

Bills

• Freedom to Vote & Secure Elections Act (automatic registration, independent redistricting incentives, baseline early/mail access).

• Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) 2.0 (sectoral bargaining pilots, card-check in high-violation sectors, real penalties for union-busting).

• Online Platform Fairness Act (interoperability, data-portability, merger presumptions, ad-transparency).

• Housing Now (zoning incentive grants, social/green housing, anti-speculation surtax, mass rehab credits).

• Childcare & Paid Leave (federal floor with state top-ups).

Title VI — Climate, Industry, and Public Lands

• Clean Supply Chains Act (electrification, grid build-out, domestic cleantech content, transmission siting partnership).

• Use Defense Production Act (DPA)—lawfully—to expand batteries, heat pumps, grid gear; pair with transparent findings and Title III tools to rebuild key supply chains. (Congress.gov)

• Aggressive conservation via the Antiquities Act to protect critical ecosystems and cultural sites (with strong records to survive challenge). (Congress.gov)

Title VII — NASA: “Moonshot for Peace & Plenty”

• Lunar Opportunities Initiative: a public–private program to match and surpass PRC lunar ambitions; mass uncrewed scout swarms, multi-drone carriers, in-situ resource utilization demos, and resilient cislunar comms/storage. Private partners carry fast-iteration risk; NASA sets open standards and safety gates.