What would another Trump presidency look like?

One of the most alarming things about the 2024 election was the reveal of Project 2025, a republican party plan to reshape the government if Donald Trump is elected. While Trump has denied any knowledge of the project and instead deflected to his project “Agenda 47,” which still challenges and changes government policies, the public is concerned about the outcome of Trump’s presidency.
Project 2025
The over 900-page policy blueprint, released by conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation in 2022 under the title “Mandate for Leadership,” promotes right-wing poses an “existential threat” to immigrant, reproductive, LGBTQ+, climate and health protections nationwide, policy leaders warn. Many political analysts hold that the initiative was designed to push the U.S. toward autocracy by eroding the rule of law, weakening the separation of powers, blurring the lines between church and state, and threatening civil liberties.
“Project 2025 is an effort to privatize public things, like health care protections and utility services, which are already price-gouging Americans,” said Sulma Arias, executive director of People’s Action Institute. “We don’t have to wait until these measures are implemented to see how they impact our community. It’s already happening.”
Climate change/Disaster relief
The outline includes climate-related changes, eliminating disaster relief loans to small businesses, raising the threshold for a disaster declaration, privatizing FEMA flood insurance, and privatizing the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and National Weather Service.
“You see the impact in North Carolina with Hurricane Helene. Over 200 people are dead, over a million are without power, and there’s $35 billion in damage,” said Arias. “If we understood the effects of something this horrible, I believe that most Americans would be against it.”
Healthcare benefits
Project 2025 affects healthcare by cutting Medicaid benefits, increasing Medicare prescription drug prices, including insulin, and repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), allowing insurance companies like United Health to deny coverage based on preexisting conditions and leaving tens of millions of Americans uninsured.
“For many people, this means the difference between life and death,” said Arias. “With record profits, United Health has denied over 250 million cases in a year, for example. What’s behind this is corporate greed and a fight over who controls the growing inequality in this country.”
Reproductive rights
With both political parties having contrasting views on reproductive rights, the outline states cease investigating and enforcing federal requirements that hospitals provide abortion care in emergency cases and restore exceptions allowing individuals and institutions to deny patients reproductive care in all 50 states.
“This week, I spoke with a Miami physician treating a patient who, after her cancer returned, learned she was pregnant and needed chemo right away, and therefore needed an abortion. No provider in Florida could provide this because she was just over the six-week mark. Already ill herself, she had to leave the state,” said Yvonne Gutierrez, chief strategy officer of Reproductive Freedom for All. Currently, 63 percent of Americans support legalizing abortion in all or most cases.
“Those in favor of reproductive restrictions talk a lot about exceptions. Exceptions don’t work,” she added. “This patient needed life-saving care, but because she wasn’t going to die tomorrow, it didn’t count.