Project 2025: The Ominous Specter

Project 2025: The Ominous Specter

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  • Radical Reshaping of America: Conservative Blueprint Threatens Democratic Institutions
    Imagine a blueprint for remaking America’s government from the ground up, drawn by conservative architects at the Heritage Foundation. That’s Project 2025, launched in April 2023 as the 900-page Mandate for Leadership, a detailed playbook to consolidate executive power and install loyalists across federal agencies, according to the project’s own documentation.
    Fast forward to 2026: under President Trump’s second term, echoes of this vision pulse through Washington. The Heritage Foundation’s plan called for reinstating Schedule F to strip civil service protections from up to a million policy-influencing federal workers, paving the way for partisan replacements. Trump’s Executive Order on Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions reinstated it immediately, as Politico reports, aligning with Project 2025’s push for “motivated and aligned leadership.”
    Concrete changes abound. The Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, has slashed tens of thousands of jobs, targeting “woke” initiatives. Health and Human Services plans to cut 20,000 positions—25 percent of its workforce—via buyouts and attrition, per Government Executive. USAID faced near-elimination, its staff fired then partially reinstated by courts, while the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which returned $21 billion to scam victims, teeters after similar assaults. The Agriculture Department is dismantling its D.C. headquarters, and IRS civil rights offices have been gutted by 75 percent.
    Policy ambitions run deep. Mandate for Leadership urges dismantling the Department of Education, placing the DOJ and FBI under direct White House control—“a bloated bureaucracy infatuated with a radical liberal agenda,” it declares—and merging economic bureaus into a conservative-aligned entity. Immigration reforms propose abolishing Homeland Security for a streamlined enforcement agency. Cuts target Medicaid via funding caps and work requirements, and Medicare faces reductions.
    Experts warn of peril. The ACLU describes it as a “radical restructuring” threatening rights, while unions like AFGE sue over union curbs, echoing Project 2025’s disdain for public-sector bargaining. Proponents tout efficiency; critics see democratic erosion.
    As DOGE deadlines loom—agency RIF plans due April 14, USAID closure eyed by July—these moves test executive reach amid lawsuits. Will courts halt the frenzy, or will loyalty reshape governance for years?
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  • Radical Reshaping of America: Project 2025's Conservative Blueprint for Governance
    Imagine a blueprint for remaking America's government from the ground up, drawn by conservative architects at the Heritage Foundation. That's Project 2025, launched in April 2023 as the 900-page Mandate for Leadership, a detailed roadmap to consolidate executive power and dismantle what its authors call the bloated administrative state, according to the Heritage Foundation's own documentation.
    At its core, the plan targets federal agencies for radical overhaul. It calls for abolishing the Department of Education entirely, shifting programs like those under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to Health and Human Services, while empowering states with school choice and parental rights to combat what it labels "woke propaganda" in public schools. The Department of Homeland Security would vanish too, replaced by a streamlined immigration agency merging Customs and Border Protection, ICE, and others, with proposals to end protections against migrant apprehensions near schools and churches, as outlined in the Mandate.
    Key reforms push the unitary executive theory, placing the DOJ, FBI, and independent bodies like the FTC under direct presidential control. "The DOJ has become a bloated bureaucracy... infatuated with a radical liberal agenda," the project states, advocating replacement of civil servants with loyalists via reinstating Schedule F, which strips job protections for up to a million workers. It also eyes cuts to Medicare and Medicaid through funding caps and work requirements, plus shrinking the National Labor Relations Board to hinder union organizing.
    Latest developments show momentum: By early 2025, President Trump's Executive Order on the Department of Government Efficiency directed agencies to prepare massive reductions in force and reorganization plans by March, per Office of Personnel Management guidance, echoing Project 2025's 180-day playbook of ready executive orders.
    Experts warn of risks. The ACLU describes it as a "radical restructuring" threatening civil liberties, while unions like the American Federation of Government Employees decry it as a bid to terminate workers and politicize expertise. Yet proponents argue it streamlines efficiency, as Heritage claims: a collective effort for "positive change."
    This ambition connects to broader themes of reclaiming power from unelected bureaucrats, illustrated by merging economic bureaus into one conservative-aligned entity.
    Looking ahead, Phase 2 agency plans due by September 2025 could accelerate these shifts, with midterm elections as a pivotal decision point.
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  • Conservative Blueprint for Sweeping Government Overhaul in 2025
    Imagine a blueprint unfolding in Washington, one that could redraw the lines of American power. Project 2025, launched in April 2023 by the Heritage Foundation, is that plan—a 900-plus-page manifesto called Mandate for Leadership, crafted by former Trump officials and conservative allies to reshape the federal government for a potential Republican president in 2025.
    At its core, the project pushes the unitary executive theory, aiming to place the entire executive branch under direct presidential control. According to the Heritage Foundation's document, it calls for reclassifying tens of thousands of civil service workers as political appointees via Schedule F, stripping protections to replace them with loyalists. "The federal government should be no more than a statistics-keeping organization when it comes to education," it states, proposing to dismantle the Department of Education entirely, shifting programs like those under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to Health and Human Services.
    Concrete changes ripple across agencies. The Department of Justice and FBI would lose independence, with the FBI director accountable directly to the president, as the plan decries the DOJ as a "bloated bureaucracy... infatuated with a radical liberal agenda." Homeland Security would vanish, replaced by a streamlined immigration agency merging Customs and Border Protection and ICE. The Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau face abolition, while Medicare and Medicaid could see funding caps, work requirements, and voucher options. Environmental rules would shrink, taxes on corporations would drop, and a flat income tax proposed.
    Experts warn of sweeping impacts. The ACLU describes it as a "radical restructuring" threatening reproductive, LGBTQ, and immigrant rights. The National Federation of Federal Employees calls it a scheme to "destroy the Administrative State," enabling unlimited political hires on day one via a 180-day playbook of executive orders.
    These ambitions connect a broader vision: dismantling what proponents see as bureaucratic overreach to empower conservative priorities like school choice and nuclear innovation, while critics fear an imperial presidency eroding checks and balances.
    As 2025's transition looms, key milestones like personnel vetting—aiming for 20,000 in the Heritage database—and potential executive actions will test this blueprint's reach.
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  • Reshaping America's Government: Heritage Foundation's Ambitious Project 2025 Unveiled
    Imagine a blueprint for remaking America’s government from the ground up, drawn by conservative architects at the Heritage Foundation. That’s Project 2025, launched in April 2023 as the 900-page Mandate for Leadership, a detailed roadmap to consolidate executive power and install loyalists across federal agencies, according to the Heritage Foundation’s own documentation.
    Its stated goal? Reshape the sprawling administrative state into a leaner machine aligned with right-wing priorities. Picture Day One of a new Republican presidency: a stack of executive orders ready to sign, firing tens of thousands of civil servants under the revived Schedule F category, reclassifying them as at-will political appointees. The Heritage Foundation’s plan calls for replacing them with vetted personnel from its database, aiming for 20,000 recruits by late 2024. As Government Executive reports, by early 2025, the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, accelerated this—slashing diversity offices, issuing reduction-in-force plans for 70,000 jobs, and targeting agencies like USAID and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which returned $21 billion to scam victims but now faces elimination.
    Concrete changes abound. The blueprint urges dismantling the Department of Education, shifting programs like those for disabled students to Health and Human Services and curbing federal civil rights enforcement in schools to prioritize “student safety over racial parity in discipline,” per Mandate for Leadership. It eyes abolishing the Department of Homeland Security, merging its immigration functions, and partisan control of the DOJ and FBI, making their leaders directly accountable to the president. Cuts loom for Medicaid via funding caps and work requirements, plus shrinking the NIH and reversing Biden-era environmental rules to boost nuclear energy and corporate tax breaks.
    Experts warn of risks. The ACLU describes it as a “radical restructuring” threatening reproductive, LGBTQ, and immigrant rights. Unions like AFGE decry the potential loss of up to a million federal workers’ protections, echoing fears of politicized governance.
    By mid-2025, courts have reinstated some fired staff at Voice of America and CFPB, signaling legal battles ahead. As return-to-office mandates clash with office closures, the project’s ambition tests America’s checks and balances.
    Looking forward, key milestones like congressional action on Education cuts and union fights could define 2026 governance. Will efficiency triumph or chaos ensue?
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  • Transforming Federal Power: Project 2025's Ambitious Conservative Agenda
    Project 2025 began not on a campaign stage, but in a Washington think tank conference room. The Heritage Foundation calls it “a conservative policy agenda” and a ready-made governing blueprint, anchored in a nearly 900-page manual titled Mandate for Leadership, meant to guide “the next conservative president” from day one, according to Heritage’s own introduction to the project.
    At its core, Project 2025 aims to dramatically expand presidential control over the federal government. Heritage leaders have said the goal is to “deconstruct the administrative state” and ensure that “all federal employees should answer to the president,” a phrase echoed by Heritage president Kevin Roberts and summarized in reporting by PBS NewsHour and The New York Times. The project embraces the controversial “unitary executive” theory, under which agencies that have traditionally operated with some independence, like the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, would be firmly pulled into the White House orbit, as described by the Center for Progressive Reform and the ACLU.
    To make that vision real, the blueprint outlines sweeping changes to federal staffing. The National Federation of Federal Employees explains that Project 2025 leans heavily on reviving and expanding “Schedule F,” a Trump-era classification that would allow tens of thousands of career civil servants to be converted into political appointees and easily removed. Heritage’s own materials describe building a database of 20,000 ideologically aligned personnel ready to step into government roles, while critics like Democracy Forward warn this would turn a nonpartisan civil service into a loyal political corps.
    The scope of the policy proposals is just as far-reaching. According to the Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership document and a summary by AFSCME, the plan calls for abolishing the Department of Education, shifting most education authority to the states, and cutting back federal civil rights enforcement in schools. The Heritage blueprint also urges dismantling the Department of Homeland Security and replacing it with a streamlined immigration-focused department that consolidates agencies such as Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Transportation Security Administration, as summarized by Wikipedia’s Project 2025 entry and labor analyses.
    Economic and regulatory policy would be reshaped as well. Heritage’s Mandate argues for repealing the Inflation Reduction Act’s climate investments, closing the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office, and rolling back environmental and clean-energy mandates. It also backs major tax changes, including corporate tax cuts and a possible flat individual income tax, along with cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, according to the Heritage document and summaries by AFSCME and the ACLU. The blueprint further recommends abolishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and even the Federal Trade Commission, moves tha
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  • Transforming America's Government: A Conservative Blueprint Revealed
    Imagine a blueprint for remaking America’s government from the ground up, drawn by conservative architects at the Heritage Foundation. Launched in April 2023, Project 2025—formally the 2025 Presidential Transition Project—outlines a sweeping overhaul of the federal bureaucracy in its 900-page Mandate for Leadership, according to the Heritage Foundation’s own documentation.
    At its core, the plan champions the unitary executive theory, placing the entire executive branch under direct presidential control. “All federal employees should answer to the president,” Heritage president Kevin Roberts declared, as cited in Wikipedia’s overview of the project. It calls for firing tens of thousands of civil servants via Schedule F reclassification, replacing them with vetted loyalists from a database aiming for 20,000 recruits by late 2024.
    Concrete examples abound. The Department of Education would close entirely, shifting funds and IDEA programs to states and Health and Human Services to boost school choice and curb what it terms “woke propaganda,” per the Mandate. The Department of Homeland Security? Dismantled, reborn as a lean immigration agency merging ICE, CBP, and TSA. Justice and FBI would answer directly to the White House, ending independent probes and expanding the death penalty, while the FTC and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau face abolition to slash antitrust and consumer safeguards.
    Tax cuts for corporations, a flat income tax, Medicaid caps, and Medicare trims aim to reverse Biden-era policies. Environmentally, it targets the Inflation Reduction Act, closing clean energy offices to prioritize affordable fossil fuels.
    By January 2025, President Trump’s February 11 Executive Order kicked off the Department of Government Efficiency, mandating agency reorganization plans by March 13—Phase 1 cuts, Phase 2 efficiencies—like merging economic bureaus under conservative mandates, as detailed in OPM guidance.
    Experts warn of risks. The ACLU describes it as a radical restructuring threatening rights, while AFGE fears up to a million job losses. Yet proponents see streamlined governance empowering families.
    As 2026 unfolds, Phase 2 plans due last year signal more cuts ahead, with Congress as the next battleground. Will this ambition reshape democracy or spark backlash?
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  • Radical Government Overhaul Proposed in Project 2025: Centralized Executive Power and Bureaucratic Upheaval
    Project 2025 represents one of the most ambitious blueprints for restructuring American government in recent history. Published in April 2023 by the Heritage Foundation, this 900-page policy document outlines a comprehensive plan to reshape the federal government around conservative principles, consolidating executive power and eliminating what its architects view as bureaucratic inefficiency.
    At its core, Project 2025 seeks to place the entire executive branch under direct presidential control. According to the Heritage Foundation's documentation, this approach relies on what legal scholars call the unitary executive theory, an expansive interpretation of presidential power aimed at centralizing greater control over government in the White House. The blueprint specifically targets the independence of agencies like the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the Federal Trade Commission, proposing that their leaders answer directly to the president rather than operate with traditional institutional autonomy.
    The scale of proposed changes is staggering. The project calls for dismantling the Department of Education entirely, transferring its functions to states and shifting education policy authority from Washington to local communities. It recommends abolishing the Department of Homeland Security, consolidating immigration agencies into a new structure. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has returned 21 billion dollars to consumers harmed by scams and fraud, would be eliminated. Even statistical agencies like the Census Bureau would be restructured and aligned with conservative principles.
    Perhaps most consequentially, Project 2025 envisions replacing career civil servants with political appointees loyal to the administration. Through a mechanism called Schedule F, the blueprint proposes removing employment protections for thousands of federal workers, converting them to at-will positions. This shift would fundamentally alter the nonpartisan character of the civil service that has existed for over a century.
    The policy document extends into areas from healthcare to labor rights. It proposes cutting Medicare and Medicaid through caps on federal funding and stricter work requirements. It recommends making union organizing more difficult and eliminating protections for federal employees' collective bargaining rights.
    Since taking office on January 20, 2025, the Trump administration and his Department of Government Efficiency have begun implementing many of these proposals, though often with methods not explicitly outlined in Project 2025. The administration has eliminated diversity, equity, and inclusion positions government-wide, announced plans to reduce the federal workforce by approximately 70,000 employees, and initiated steps toward closing multiple agencies entirely.
    Legal challenges have already emerged, with courts reinstating employees at the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau and Voice of America after their dismissal. These
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  • Sweeping Conservative Blueprint Seeks to Reshape American Governance
    In April 2023, the Heritage Foundation released a sweeping political blueprint that would reshape American governance in ways both systematic and far-reaching. According to Wikipedia, Project 2025, also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, emerged as a comprehensive initiative designed to consolidate executive power in favor of right-wing policies. What began as a policy document evolved into something far more ambitious: a 927-page manual divided into 30 chapters, complete with a personnel database and prepared executive orders ready for immediate implementation.
    The scale of Project 2025's ambitions becomes clear when examining its specific proposals. According to the National Federation of Federal Employees, the project includes a 180-day playbook with concrete steps for restructuring federal departments starting on day one of a new administration. The American Civil Liberties Union describes the central document, "Mandate for Leadership," as a manual for reorganizing the entire federal government agency by agency to serve a conservative agenda.
    Several agencies face potential elimination under these proposals. According to Wikipedia, Project 2025 calls for dismantling the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Education, and the Federal Trade Commission. The Department of Education's closure represents a particularly significant shift, as the project envisions transferring education control to individual states while eliminating federal civil rights enforcement in schools. Programs serving students with disabilities would transfer to the Department of Health and Human Services.
    The project pursues a controversial expansion of presidential authority through what Wikipedia identifies as an expansive interpretation of unitary executive theory, aiming to centralize greater control over government in the White House. This manifests concretely through Schedule F, a reclassification scheme that would convert tens of thousands of federal civil service workers into at-will political appointees. The Heritage Foundation announced plans to develop a database of 20,000 vetted personnel by the end of 2024, according to Wikipedia.
    Economic and environmental policies receive equally aggressive overhauls. Wikipedia notes the project proposes repealing the Inflation Reduction Act and closing the Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office, redirecting funding away from renewable energy research toward making energy more affordable. Tax policy would shift toward reduced corporate taxation and a flat individual income tax, while Medicare and Medicaid face substantial cuts.
    Recent developments show tangible implementation efforts. According to guidance from the Office of Management and Budget, President Trump issued an executive order in February 2025 directing agencies to undertake large-scale reductions in force and develop reorganization plans by specific deadlines. Phase 1 plans were due March 13, 2025, with Phase 2 plans scheduled
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  • Transforming American Government: Project 2025's Sweeping Vision Unveiled
    Project 2025 represents one of the most comprehensive blueprints for restructuring American government in recent history. Published by the Heritage Foundation in April 2023, this 900-page policy document, officially titled the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, outlines a radical vision for consolidating executive power and reshaping federal agencies according to conservative principles.
    At its core, Project 2025 seeks to eliminate what its architects view as the "administrative state." According to the Heritage Foundation, the initiative includes a 180-day playbook with prepared executive orders ready for implementation, along with a personnel database designed to identify ideologically aligned appointees for key federal positions. The project's most transformative proposal involves a controversial mechanism called Schedule F, which would reclassify tens of thousands of federal civil service workers as political appointees, potentially removing decades of employment protections and enabling wholesale replacement of career staff with administration loyalists.
    The scope of proposed changes is sweeping. The project calls for dismantling entire agencies, including the Department of Education and Department of Homeland Security, while subordinating others to direct presidential control. According to Wikipedia's analysis of the initiative, it seeks to place the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Trade Commission, and Department of Justice under expanded presidential authority, a vision grounded in an expansive interpretation of unitary executive theory.
    Specific policy targets reveal the blueprint's ideological ambitions. The Heritage Foundation's proposal would close the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, redirect climate research funding, and repeal the Inflation Reduction Act. Education policy would shift dramatically, with the proposal to eliminate federal civil rights enforcement in schools and transfer disability education programs to different agencies. The project also proposes consolidating economic data agencies and cutting funding for Medicare and Medicaid through various mechanisms including work requirements and per capita spending caps.
    Recent developments show these proposals moving from theory toward implementation. In February 2025, according to Office of Personnel Management guidance, the Trump administration issued an executive order launching the Department of Government Efficiency Workforce Optimization Initiative, directing federal agencies to prepare large-scale workforce reductions and submit reorganization plans by March and April 2025. Multiple civil rights organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, have begun tracking Project 2025's implementation across federal agencies, documenting concerns about potential impacts on workers' rights, environmental protection, and civil rights enforcement.
    The project's implications extend
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  • Transforming America: The Conservative Blueprint for Sweeping Government Overhaul
    Imagine a blueprint for remaking America’s government from the ground up, drawn by conservative architects at the Heritage Foundation. That’s Project 2025, launched in April 2023 as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project. Its 900-page Mandate for Leadership outlines a sweeping overhaul, aiming to dismantle what it calls the bloated administrative state and consolidate power in the president’s hands.
    At its core, the plan pushes unitary executive theory, placing agencies like the Department of Justice and FBI under direct White House control. According to the Heritage Foundation’s document, the DOJ has become a “bloated bureaucracy... infatuated with a radical liberal agenda,” so it must be reformed with the FBI director accountable to the president. The blueprint calls for reclassifying tens of thousands of civil servants under Schedule F, stripping protections to install loyalists—a database targeting 20,000 by late 2024, per Heritage reports.
    Concrete changes target key agencies. It proposes abolishing the Department of Education, shifting programs like the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to Health and Human Services, and curbing federal civil rights enforcement in schools to prioritize “student safety” over racial parity in discipline. The Department of Homeland Security would vanish, replaced by a lean immigration agency merging Customs and Border Protection with ICE. Environmental rules would shrink, Medicare and Medicaid face funding caps and work requirements, and the FTC—guardian of antitrust—would be gutted.
    Latest developments show momentum: President Trump’s February 2025 Executive Order on the Department of Government Efficiency, as detailed in OPM guidance, mandates agency reorganization plans by March and April, with large-scale reductions in force to cut waste and FTE positions.
    Experts warn of risks. The ACLU describes it as a “radical restructuring” threatening reproductive, LGBTQ, and immigrant rights. Labor groups like NFFE decry Schedule F as enabling “political corruption,” while AFGE fears up to a million federal jobs lost.
    This ambitious vision connects family-centric values to border security and economic revival, but critics see authoritarian overreach. As Phase 2 plans roll out by September 2025, the real test looms: Will Congress curb these executive moves?
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About Project 2025: The Ominous Specter

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Project 2025: The Ominous Specter Ladies and gentlemen, we find ourselves standing at the precipice of a dark and foreboding future, one in which the very foundations of our democracy are under siege. The threat we face is not an external one, but rather a cancer that has metastasized within the body politic itself. I speak, of course, of the insidious manifesto known as Project 2025 – a blueprint for authoritarian rule that masquerades as a conservative vision for the United States. As we delve into the depths of this pernicious document, crafted in the shadowy halls of the Heritage Foundation, it becomes abundantly clear that we are witnessing nothing less than a frontal assault on the principles that have long sustained our republic. Project 2025 is not merely a misguided set of policy proposals; it is a calculated attempt to dismantle the very fabric of our democratic institutions, to concentrate power in the hands of a few, and to impose a rigid ideological orthodoxy on a nation that has always prided itself on its diversity and its commitment to individual liberty. At its core, Project 2025 seeks to reshape the federal government in the image of a conservative dystopia. Its proponents, consumed by an insatiable hunger for power and an unwavering commitment to their ideological agenda, have meticulously crafted a roadmap for the systematic erosion of checks and balances, the suppression of dissent, and the consolidation of executive authority. It is a vision that should send a shiver down the spine of every freedom-loving American, for it represents nothing less than a repudiation of the very principles upon which this nation was founded. The architects of Project 2025 argue, with a level of audacity that borders on the delusional, that the federal bureaucracy is overrun with unaccountable liberals who impede their agenda. Their solution? A purge of Stalinist proportions, reclassifying tens of thousands of civil servants as political appointees, effectively transforming the machinery of government into an apparatus of ideological conformity. The implications of this proposal alone are staggering – the eradication of expertise, the subversion of meritocracy, and the creation of a loyalty-based system that would make even the most fervent authoritarian blush. But the assault on democratic institutions does not end there. Project 2025's disdain for the separation of powers is as blatant as it is dangerous. Its vision of a "unitary executive theory" is nothing short of a repudiation of the very principles enshrined in our Constitution. By seeking to exert control over independent agencies like the Department of Justice and the FBI, the project's architects aim to transform these bastions of impartiality into instruments of partisan enforcement. It is a move that would make Richard Nixon's transgressions seem like mere child's play, a power grab of such magnitude that it threatens to unravel the very fabric of our democracy. And yet, even as we r

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