What could happen to our Government and the Federal Workforce in 2025?

A group of Conservative Organizations have a plan - and it’s not good for Federal Employees.

The plan is detailed in a blueprint called Project 2025, organized by the Far-Right Heritage Foundation, and backed by over 100 Conservative Organizations. 

The plan promises a takeover of our country’s system of checks and balances in order to “dismantle the administrative state” - the operations of Federal Agencies and programs according to current law and regulation, including many of the laws and regulations that govern Federal employment.

“Project 2025 will take away freedoms and rights from every American, will hurt the Middle Class and Working Families, and is a threat to our Democracy,” said American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) President Everett Kelley. “It’s a takeover of our Federal Government in a manner that is not loyal to the Constitution and the law, has no interest in listening to the people, and will force employees to take orders, legal or not, or be terminated.”

AFGE Public Policy Director Jacque Simon said: “If all of their recommendations were implemented, it wouldn’t just eviscerate our statutory collective bargaining rights and pay system - but undo the basics of the Pendleton Act of 1883 which replaced a corrupt spoils system with the apolitical, merit-based system we have today.”

Here are the lowlights of Project 2025, according to the AFGE, to help those in the Labor Movement understand how these plans would undermine national security, destroy Democracy and take away your rights: Eliminate up to a million Federal jobs; Declare Public Unions illegal and take away union rights; Gut Federal Workers’ pay and benefits; Make it easier to discriminate against People of Color, Women and LGBTQIA+ people; and Dismantle and privatize Federal Agencies, to name but a few.

To Read This Important Labor News Story In Its Entirety, Go To: AFGE | Project 2025 Seeks to Dismantle Agencies, Terminate Up To 1 Million Federal Workers