Equality Caucus issues report on House GOP’s effort to implement Project 2025
The Congressional Equality Caucus on Thursday released a report titled, “Ripping Away Our Freedoms: How House Republicans are Working to Implement Project 2025’s Assault on LGBTQI+ Americans’ Rights.” “People often talk about Project 2025 as a plan for the future, but the reality is there aremembers of Congress working to implement Project 2025 right now,” said U.S.
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), who chairs the caucus. “When Republicans took control of the House of Representatives last year, we saw anavalanche of attacks against the LGBTQI+ community,” the congressman said. “During the past two years, they forced more than 70 anti-LGBTQI+ votes on the House floor.
And nearly every bill and amendment idea was ripped out of the pages of Project 2025’s ‘Mandate for Leadership2025: The Conservative Promise.'” The caucus’s 53-page report details efforts by the House GOP caucus to effectuate the “anti-LGBTQI+ agenda” of Project 2025 by “undermining and ending nondiscrimination programs, restricting access to medically necessary care, censoring LGBTQI+ books, symbols, art, and related words, ending U.S.
leadership on LGBTQI+ human rights abroad, ending diversity, equity, and inclusion and LGBTQI-inclusive efforts, and demonizing LGBTQI+ people.” While Republicans including Donald Trump have sought to distance themselves from Project 2025, the 900+-page governing blueprint produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation has many ties to the former president.
