Project 2025’s next plan shocks other Heritage Foundation members
The conservative group behind the Project 2025 is about to propose a sweeping change to domestic economic policy to explicitly encourage married heterosexual couples to have more children.
The right-wing Heritage Foundation will ask lawmakers to steer money away from Head Start and other child care programs to fund government-seeded savings accounts specifically meant to encourage parents to stay home and raise children, reported the Washington Post.
“For family policy to succeed, old orthodoxies must be re-examined and innovative approaches embraced, but more than that, we need to mobilize a nation to meet this moment,” states a draft of the paper, which was sent to Heritage police experts by the think tank's domestic policy vice president, Roger Severino.
A five-page summary of the forthcoming position paper titled “We Must Save the American Family" calls for “Manhattan Project to restore the nuclear family,” which represents a major break away from its longstanding ideals of limited government and free-market conservatism and toward the "pronatalist" movement supported by Vice President JD Vance and Heritage President Kevin Roberts.
"I want more babies in the United States of America," Vance said in his first public speech in office.
“It’s time for policymakers to elevate family authority, formation, and cohesion as their top priority and even use government power, including through the tax code, to restore the American family," Roberts wrote in the introduction to Project 2025, which has served as a blueprint for President Donald Trump's second term.
The apparent shift in priorities has caught some at the institute off guard, with one person comparing the policies to "eugenics" and another calling the policies "'social engineering' that would reverse a half century of progress toward gender equality."
“That paper is not a compromise between the limited government folks and the big government folks,” said that person. “It is an outright steamrolling of the limited government folks.”
“Going back 50 years?” the person added. “I wouldn’t want to go back 50 years.”
‘Democrat hoax!’ Trump lashes out as Epstein survivors who held press conference
President Donald Trump suggested that a press conference being held by survivors of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was a "Democrat hoax."
As the survivors were speaking outside the Capitol on Wednesday, a reporter asked Trump if his Justice Department was "protecting any friends or donors."
"So this is a Democrat hoax that never ends," the president complained. "You know, it reminds me a little of the Kennedy situation. We gave him everything over and over again, more and more and more, and nobody's ever satisfied."
"But it's really a Democrat hoax because they're trying to get people to talk about something that's totally irrelevant to the success that we've had as a nation since I've been president," he continued. "So what they're trying to do with the Epstein hoax is, get people to talk about that instead of speaking about the tremendous success, like ending seven wars."
"I ended seven wars. Nobody's going to talk about because they're going to talk about the Epstein, whatever."
Trump argued that his government had "given thousands of pages of files" about Epstein to Congress.
"And I think it's, I think, really, I think it's enough because I think we should talk about the greatness of our country and the success that we're having," he insisted. "And that's what I want to talk about. That's what we should be talking about. Not the Epstein hoax."
Gavin Newsom calls out Trump’s ‘dementia’ after he repeats wildfire conspiracy theory
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) accused President Donald Trump of having dementia because he keeps repeating the same lie over and over again.
The conspiracy theory is that Newsom somehow wasn't releasing a flood of water that could be used to extinguish the wildfires in Southern California. Somehow he was sitting on tons of water that could be used to fight the fires that comes from snow runoff.
According to Trump, the entire wildfire in Southern California would never have happened to begin with due to sprinklers.
"You wouldn't have had the fire because all the sprinklers would've worked in the houses," said Trump.
Homes don't have fire suppression sprinkler systems. Large structures do.
"Forty-six states have completely removed the sprinkler requirements for one- and two-family homes," said the National Association of Home Builders.
As one fact-check, from CNN, explained, "This is false. Newsom has never refused to sign a 'water restoration declaration.' In fact, there is no such document, as Newsom’s office said on social media on Wednesday and experts on California water policy confirmed."
Jeffrey Mount, a senior fellow in the Water Policy Center at the Public Policy Institute of California think tank, told CNN in January, “At no time was water scarcity in general an issue. Rather, there were local shortages of water during the firefight, principally due to infrastructure constraints. But Southern California has plenty of water in storage right now, so this was not a limiting factor."
Newsom even published comments on the governor's website from water agencies, water contractors, and a metro water district dispelling Trump's myth.
Newsom replied to Trump's post with a screen capture in which he asks the AI site Perplexity whether it's a sign of dementia to repeat the same "crazy conspiracies" over and over again.
People with dementia often repeat the same statements, questions, and sometimes false or mistaken beliefs, primarily because of memory loss and impaired reasoning. This repetitive behavior can include everyday concerns, but may also involve delusions of persistent falsehoods, such as believing people are stealing from them or thinking they are in danger—sometimes leading to repeated expression of these ideas," Perplexity wrote, according to Newsom's screen capture.
See the clip of Trump below or at the link here.
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