Update Project 2025: The Plan To Seize Power by Gutting America’s System of Checks and Balances (title update 12:58PT)
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Update Project 2025: The Plan To Seize Power by Gutting America’s System of Checks and Balances (title update 12:58PT)

Project 2025—and the budget plans it has spawned—would erode Americans’ personal freedoms and harm the middle class, starting by consolidating power in the presidency just as authoritarian governments have done in other countries around the world.

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