| Remember during the campaign Project 2025, designed and published by the Conservative organization the Heritage Foundation when many were worried. President Trump disavowed any knowledge of it despite the fact that it had policies that Trump had attempted to implement in his first term and that a large percentage of the writers of Project 2025 had either served in his first administration or are serving in critical positions in his second administration.
Here we are 71 days into the new administration and seemingly at warp speed many of the policy initiatives found in Project 2025 have been implemented. Most illegally. Let’s look at just a few that impact Seniors..
- Block granting and capping federal funding of Medicaid – in process with the massive up to $880 billion cut in Medicaid funding to finance a $4.2 trillion tax cut for billionaires and multi-national corporations.
- Outlaw all Federal Public Unions – In process with the new Executive order detailed in the article below by AFGE National President, Everett Kelly.
- Giving States the Ability to outlaw ALL Unions – Not yet formally started
- Fire all Civil Service employees and replace them with Political Appointments – Not all yet but a significant number of civil servants fired or furloughed crippling functioning government especially in Health services, Social Security and Veterans Affairs. Essentially, by these cuts they have gotten rid of expertise, institutional knowledge, scientific knowledge and expertise that will take decades to reinstall.
- Get rid of the Department of Education – Done (Illegally) subject to actions of Congress
- Making Medicare Advantage (Corporate insurance with corporate profit motives) the default enrollment option for new enrollees – Not yet started but don’t assume this won’t happen in the near future. If you wanted to really address waste fraud and abuse in government funding regulating and cracking down on companies that provide Medicare Advantage would potentially save hundreds of billions of dollars.
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