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Dept/ Agency: Offices of Municipal Council/City Clerk
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Declaring Opposition
Purpose: Resolution Declaring Opposition to the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 (formally known as the Presidential Transition Project)
Sponsor(s): Council Member, Luis A. Quintana
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WHEREAS, Project 2025, formally known as the Presidential Transition Project, is a 920-page plan developed by a national consortium of highly conservative organizations led by the Heritage Foundation and former high-ranking officials of the Trump Administration to centralize power within the Executive Branch and undermine the system of checks and balances that is fundamental to American democracy; and
WHEREAS, the priorities of Project 2025 include sweeping "reforms" through which the functions of the FBI, the Department of Justice, the national security agencies, including the CIA, and the Department of Defense deployment procedures would be placed under the control of the President to carry out investigative and law enforcement actions claimed to be necessary for national security and protection of national sovereignty, for carrying out surveillance and detention of perceived political adversaries and targeted public advocacy organizations; controlling public demonstrations and suppressing targeted media organizations; and
WHEREAS, Project 2025 includes plans to reclassify tens of thousands of federal civil service posts as political appointees and replace them with an already-recruited and trained corps of people who share the conservative values of a new administration and who will be totally devoted to carrying out its objective; and
WHEREAS, one of the key goals of Project 2025 is to eliminate federal funding and civil rights protections for public education and prioritize government payments to families sending their children to private schools including a new sy...
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