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Letter: Project 2025 is here

Editor, Gazette-Journal:No matter what the radical right says, the extremist Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is Trump’s blueprint to destroy American’s democratic republic—and it’s here.Project 2025 calls for eliminating the Department of Education, drastically reducing or eliminating Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.The call for universal school vouchers is part of this un-American activity. It is rooted in segregation. Vouchers undercut what was once one of the best public education systems in the world. It is not freedom of choice; it is freedom to discriminate and gut American public education.If you get Social Security, enjoy it for now. Dramatic cuts in benefits or elimination are coming with Trump. You can kiss goodbye to a wide range of popular government programs, such as the Department of Education and the Office of Head Start—the latter helped 822,000 low-income families in 2022.A letter in the Sept. 19 edition of this paper said the Trump campaign put out a Projec...

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