Progressive groups warn against Project 2025 after RNC wraps in Milwaukee

By: Adam Rife X

Posted: Jul 19, 2024 8:07 PM CST

NOW: Progressive groups warn against Project 2025 after RNC wraps in Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- On the heels of the RNC, progressive activists are warning against a conservative plan that could lay the policy foundation for a second Trump presidency.

Those groups say the Project 2025 plan will strip many people of basic human rights.

Brandon Wolf is the national press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign. At a news conference Friday, July 19, Wolf said, "There are extremists right now who are standing in the way of us and that world we so deserve."

The Human Rights Campaign coordinated a message Friday that warned against a widely circulated conservative plan that is seen as a possible policy blueprint if former President Donald Trump wins election this November.

The plan was crafted by many top-level Trump staffers and the Heritage Foundation, a sponsor of the RNC.

Groups representing labor rights, reproductive rights, education rights, and civil rights sounded a warning Friday.

Kelley Robinson, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, said, "It also shows really what's at stake. Because at the end of the day, this is not a single-issue fight."

Among the plans in Project 2025:

Presidential control of the Department of Justice
Criminalize abortion drugs
Abolish the federal reserve
Dismantle the Department of Education

Peggy Wirtz-Olsen, the president of Wisconsin Education Association Council, said, "We heard politicians say they will harm our public schools. Our promise: we won't let them."

Several speakers at the RNC have ties to the Heritage Foundation, and they touted many of the ideas from the stage.

But Robinson said it's not just a concern at the top of the ticket. "That same rhetoric, that same ideology of division, of rolling back our rights, is present all through the party in too many races."

Robinson, and others, said the best way for people to stop Project 2025 is by voting.

Angela Lang, Executive Director of Black Leaders Organizing for Communities, said, "In the face of adversity and oppression, we find a way to come together and have each other's backs."