John Knefel

Right-wing media figures have spent the beginning of President Donald Trump's second term urging congressional Republicans to drastically cut spending on Medicaid to offset the huge cost of President Donald Trump’s proposed tax cuts for the rich. The conservative pundits pushing this line have floated several policy options for the Medicaid cuts, including implementing work requirements for recipients or changing funding for the insurance program for poor people into a block grant issued to states. Many conservative figures also baselessly blame undocumented immigrants for driving up Medicaid costs, even though they are generally prohibited from accessing the program.On February 25, Republicans in the House of Representatives passed a budget framework calling for $2 trillion in spending cuts and $4.8 trillion in tax cuts, which overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy. The resolution doesn’t directly call for cuts to Medicaid, and instead uses a rhetorical sleight-of-hand to disguise the rollbacks as part

Project 2025 laid a foundation for Trump’s attacks on workplace safety

Project 2025 architect begins dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau following years of right-wing media attacks

Project 2025 — a conservative transition plan to support the Trump administration, led by The Heritage Foundation and more than 100 partner organizations — repeatedly criticized diversity initiatives to justify mass firings across government offices and to lay the groundwork for a broader assault on workers’ rights.Now, President Donald Trump is using that template to decimate the federal workforce.

President Donald Trump issued four immigration-related executive orders on his first day in office that appear to be even more extreme than the policies proposed by Project 2025, a sprawling and unpopular transition plan for his new administration organized by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation.Two of Trump’s Day 1 actions go further than what Project 2025 recommends in its policy book, Mandate for Leadership. Two additional, radically anti-immigrant orders don’t appear in Mandate at all.Taken together, these four orders — which purport to ban asylum at the southern border, shutter refugee resettlement, end birthright citizenship, and designate drug cartels as terrorist organizations — show that the Trump administration is advancing an even more extreme agenda than its MAGA media allies like Project 2025 called for during the campaign.

Russ Vought’s fingerprints are all over Trump’s new federal funding freeze

Project 2025 proposed targeting local officials who resist mass deportation. Trump is following through.

Organizations on the advisory board of Project 2025, a sprawling plan to provide the incoming Republican presidential administration with policy and staffing recommendations, have responded to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory by promoting extreme approaches to carrying out his promise to deport upward of 10 million undocumented immigrants. Right-wing think tanks the Center for Immigration Studies, The Claremont Institute, and the Center for Renewing America have all advanced anti-immigrant policies since Trump’s win. Some of their proposals include offering bounties for information on suspected undocumented people, conscripting far-right so-called “constitutional sheriffs” to serve as immigration enforcers, and attempting to make life so miserable for out-of-status immigrants that they flee the country — referred to euphemistically as “self-deportation.”  Trump has already named the two top officials who will be tasked with carrying out his mass deportation plan, and they both have dire

Trump set to appoint Project 2025 architect Russ Vought to Office of Management and Budget

Anti-civil rights organizations go all-in on election denial