By Center For American Progress
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Washington, D.C. — More than a year ago, the Heritage Foundation published its Mandate for Leadership, dubbed “Project 2025: Presidential Transition Project,” a 900-page document developed by a cadre of radical organizations to serve as a road map for a far-right presidential administration. Its length and bureaucratic speak kept it out of the headlines for a year, but now, as 2025 looms closer, it’s critical to unpack what Project 2025’s policy proposals would actually mean for everyday Americans. The policies proposed in this document, which purport to overhaul the federal government, would in fact overhaul U.S. democracy and affect nearly everything from abortion rights and health care access to overtime pay and education.
The Center for American Progress is hosting an event to explore the very specific and draconian ways in which the Project 2025 authoritarian playbook would destroy our system of checks and balances and give far-right politicians, judges, and corporations more control over Americans’ lives. Experts will discuss how this radical policy agenda would target reproductive rights, labor, and civil rights, as well as how it would concentrate federal power in the presidency.
Please join CAP for this half-day event discussing the implications of Project 2025 for all Americans and exploring the ways in which its policy proposals are already having an impact at the state level.
Please note: Identification will be checked upon arrival at the Center for American Progress. Failure to provide an ID may result in denial of entry to the event.
WHO:
In conversation:
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
Patrick Gaspard, President and CEO, Center for American Progress
Panel: Project 2025 in Action: A View From States Under MAGA Control
State Rep. Anna Eskamani (D-FL)
State House Minority Leader Jennifer Konfrst (D-IA)
State Rep. James Talarico (D-TX)
Panel: Defining the Threat: The Far-Reaching Consequences of Project 2025
Mary McCord, former U.S. Assistant Attorney General for National Security
Maya Wiley, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights
MiniTimmaraju, President and CEO of Reproductive Freedom for All
Liz Shuler, President of the AFL-CIO
D.R. Richardson, Co-Founder of Elephant Energy
WHEN:
July 9, 2024
1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. ET
WHERE:
In person:
1333 H Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
To join us in person, please RSVP here.
To join our online audience, please RSVP here.
For more information, please contact Colin Seeberger at [email protected].
The Center for American Progress is a nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to promoting a strong, just and free America that ensures opportunity for all. We believe that Americans are bound together by a common commitment to these values and we aspire to ensure that our national policies reflect these values. We work to find progressive and pragmatic solutions to significant domestic and international problems and develop policy proposals that foster a government that is “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
