To the Editor:

Former President Trump disavows connection to the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, or “Project 2025,” an over 900 page blueprint penned specifically for a 2025 Republican U.S. presidential administration by the conservative Heritage Foundation. Rep. Elise Stefanik is “mum” on the document.

Trump has no connection to this project? Then it is odd that about two-thirds (23/36) of those authoring the plan do have connections to him, having served both in his administration and transition team. (p. xv)

Trump has no connection to this project?  Curious, because the introduction to “Project 2025,” states, “one set of eyes reading these passages will be those of the 47th President of the United States….”(p. xiii)

So why would Trump wish to distance himself from Project 2025?  Could it be that many proposals might be unpopular with voters? We’ll let you decide for yourself:

1. 4-5 Purge all federal regulations, laws, etc of at least 13 terms like diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), sexual orientation, reproductive rights, etc
2. 5 Educators, librarians classified as sex offenders for offering books deemed pornographic (by whom?) to children
3. 6 Ending Roe v Wade "is just the beginning"
4. 302 Remove regulations on baby formula
5. 319 Eliminate Dept. of Education which mandates and funds remedial reading/math and special education classes to >60% of America's schools, etc
6. 450 human life at conception, affecting IVF. "Abortion and euthanasia are not health care."
7. 455 Monitor all abortions, miscarriages b/c "liberal states (are) sanctuaries for abortion tourism"
8. 458 Rescind approval of abortion drugs, prohibit mailing of them across state lines
9. 465  Repeal ability of Medicare to negotiate drug prices
10. 471 Planned Parenthood loses Medicaid funding
11. 472  No Medicaid funds for states requiring insurance to cover abortion
12. 482  Eliminate Head Start
13. 595  Allow dangerous work for youths
14. 605 Repeal Davis Bacon Act, requires workers on federal projects be paid at least prevailing wages and benefits.
15. 664 Dismantle NOAA
16. 676 Dismantle the office that tracks hurricanes due to “climate alarmism”
17. 750 Eliminate aid for families and businesses rebuilding after a storm by repealing SBA Direct Lending. (Like Hurricane Debbie aftermath assistance??)

There’s more….........

Concerned by this?  Stefanik supports this; her Democratic opponent, Paula Collins, doesn’t.  Vote blue up and down your ballot in November.

Mike Zagrobelny, Chair, St. Lawrence County Democratic Committee
Ginger Storey-Welch, Vice-Chair, St. Lawrence County Democratic Committee