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Project 2025 Has Hardly Even Started On Its No. 1 Goal
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Right after President Donald Trump got elected in November, the Atlantic’s David Graham gave himself an assignment: Read all 922 pages of Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership.” Cover to cover.
It’s been a good predictor of what Trump will try to do. But there’s one goal in here that Graham thinks hasn’t gotten enough attention. A goal he thinks this administration is likely to turn to next. It’s the very first goal: “Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life—and protect our children.”
On a recent episode of What Next, host Marry Harris spoke to Graham about how far Trump is willing to go to make families great again—and who will pay the price. This transcript has been edited and condensed for clarity.
Mary Harris: You’ve said you can see how the Trump administration is beginning to lay a path to deliver on the “restoring American family” idea. Tell me a little bit about how you see that.
David Graham: Education is the place that I see it most. The framers of Project 2025 subscribe to this idea laid out by Milton Friedman, which is that the government should pay for education, but it shouldn’t necessarily provide that education. Or at the very least, parents should be able to choose that.
So really what this means is vouchers as a national system for private schools, for religious schools, whatever that may be. To make that happen, they want to reduce the strings that the federal government has on states to ensure equal opportunity, to ensure certain baselines of fairness in education. They want to reduce federal funding. And they........
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