Council file seeks details on how Project 2025 might affect Milwaukee

Common Council legislation is asking for city staff research on how the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 document might affect Milwaukee, in the event Donald Trump is elected to a second term as President in November.

Common Council file #240445 – sponsored by Alderwoman Milele A. Coggs and Alderman Mark Chambers, Jr. – has been assigned to the Judiciary and Legislation Committee.

Alderwoman Coggs said it is important for the Council and city officials to know what Project 2025 might bring, and to keep the potential impacts in the public discourse.

“If (Trump) is elected, it is important to already have the (Project 2025) information in hand, and to keep the public informed so that they can also discuss it and keep it top of mind,” the Alderwoman said.

Crafted by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, some have called the nearly 900-page Project 2025 document a blueprint for a second Trump term in office.

Alderman Chambers said Project 2025 holds potential major impacts, and “the document needs an extensive review by the (city’s) Legislative Reference Bureau.”

“Project 2025 calls for expanding the power of the president, for the firing of thousands of civil servants, for dismantling the Department of Education, huge tax cuts, a ban on pornography, stopping sales of the abortion pill, and much, much more,” Alderman Chambers said.

The Project 2025 file is expected to be scheduled for a hearing before the Judiciary and Legislation Committee soon.

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