In fact, there is every reason to believe exactly the opposite. The guardrails (such as they were) are off and devil take the hindmost!
I just checked again. Seems they’re up to 53 seats in the Senate. They technically haven’t won the House yet, but they only need 4 more seats, and they’re leading in all the outstanding races, with most of the votes counted. It would take a literal miracle at this point for them to lose the House.
So, yeah, barring the case of Republicans actually rebelling against Trump (and who would do that, after this election result?), Trump will have carte blanche to do whatever he wants.
All of them.
Yes I can see it-- National Parks (including the nat’l mall & the memorials), blighted. Library of Congress, Censored. Smithsonian, whitewashed.
Not sure which Project 2025 thread this most belongs in, but this was the most recently updated, so I’ll put it here.
Remember how Trump said he had nothing to do with P2025? No connection at all? Only three of his nominees for top cabinet positions are contributing authors. Phew…what a relief it is only three. Well, there is a 4th under consideration. And yeah, Stephen Miller is loosely associated as well. But beyond that, Donald doesn’t know anything about P2025. Nothing he is interested in.
/s
“I had no idea they worked on P2025!”
“So now that you know, you’ll fire them, right?”
“…”
“You’ll fire them, Right?”
Haha! I know that Star Wars meme.
Anyway, Trump has no clue what Project 2025 is – he just knew it was bad for some reason and pretended to distance himself from it. Another lie that the electorate just ate up.
The way I see it, P2025 is made up of three kinds of things.
- stuff Trump agrees with
- stuff Trump disagrees with
- stuff Trump doesn’t care about.
With regards to 1, of course they’ll do all of that, there will be no disagreements. The P2025 people will get right to work, and will let Trump take all the credit.
With regards to 2, the P2025 people are smart enough to know not to antagonize Trump. They’ll let him have the “win” of shutting this down, safe in the knowledge that they’ll make huge advances on everything else, and can wait for Trump to die to advance these bits.
With regards to 3, if Trump doesn’t care, he won’t care when the P2025 people he’s put in place start doing these things. So long as it doesn’t make Trump look bad, they’ll be given free rein.
You’re giving way too much credit to Trump for caring about policy at all. There’s nothing in there he agrees or disagrees with, it’s all stuff he doesn’t care about.
I’m not saying he’s read the thing, or anything like that. It’s just that it’s inevitable that there will be bits he agrees with, because it touches on just about everything the government does, and Trump has lots of opinions on that stuff. To say he doesn’t have such opinions is to ignore everything he did in his first term. He loves tax cuts, he loves tariffs, and he loves giving orders that make immigrants’ lives harder. In so far as P2025 addresses those issues, I suspect there’s at least some overlap with Trump’s opinions.
Well, this didn’t age so well. He’s added at least one more P2025 author to his potential cabinet. So, roughly at a half dozen. But, he still has no idea what P2025 is and has no interest in it! It is merely coincidence that they are ending up on his list.
I didn’t realize that Pete Hegseth is part of a crazy far right Christian nationalist church, but he is. I posted about it over on the “Trump’s new cabinet” thread. He many not be a P2025 author, but P2025 is all about this crazy religion.
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/23/trump-russ-vought-omb-white-house
P2025 was a series of bookreport/resumes.
What will really be interesting is how well it responds to, you know, everybody else.
Seems Germany understands the threat and doesn’t pull punches …
just a note: yesterday, head of USDA stated that SNAP recipients have to re-apply for benefits after shutdown ended
And the agencies that handle those re-ups are all fully staffed, right? 
that’s the point!–delays discourage those in need to apply, reducing number of recipients
Sometimes being right really does suck. But it’s not surprising, like I said, there’s lots of easy ways to make large organizations like the government work just a little bit worse every day. We’ve seen it happening all year, this new “Renew your SNAP” thing is just the most obvious.
And it’s worth noting their excuse for this:
The secretary said after receiving data on SNAP recipients from 29 red states that “186,000 deceased men and women and children in this country are receiving a check.”
I’d bet good money that the vast majority of those 186,000 “people” are the same kind of mistakes we’ve seen before, when they’ve claimed that hundreds of thousands of dead people are voting, or receiving SS payments: They found someone with a similar name in the SS death records, and just assumed that this was the same person.
It’s a trick they’ve pulled before, that the MAGAs bought completely, and it’s a lie they can tell about any government service used by millions of people.
And that number? That’s about 0.4% of the 42 million people receiving some level of SNAP support. MAJOR FRAUD!!! Okay, that data is for 29 Red states, so the “real” number will be higher, but it’s still almost nothing.
Millions of people are going to be harassed, and who knows how many kicked off SNAP (even briefly) because of minor mistakes in their applications, all to fix a alleged level of fraud that’s pretty much a rounding error, even if it were completely true.
I thought DOGE already got rid of all that waste? Speaking of that, whatever happened to DOGE?
What a joke.
Turns out, if you send a bunch of young guys to DC with high-paying jobs, they often get wasted.
It’s pretty clear they use AI to come up with these numbers. And AI is never wrong. It’s not like they are going to to an actual audit.