March on the Capitol
January 6 Officer Testimonies
FEMA funding and privatize flood insurance
Project 2025 and the Death Penalty
The Purge
Fake Firefighters
The Thin Blue Line
A second Donald Trump presidency could significantly affect first responders across the nation. The delayed response to support Capitol Police during the January 6 attack highlighted vulnerabilities in emergency preparedness and coordination, raising concerns among first responders about their safety and support. Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic strained hospitals, exposing critical gaps in healthcare resources and impacting the ability of first responders to effectively manage public health crises. The overturning of Roe v. Wade poses further challenges for rural hospitals, where limited access to reproductive health services may exacerbate already strained resources and create legal dilemmas for medical personnel. Moreover, Project 2025 aims to weaponize local law enforcement by pushing them to cooperate with ICE without adequate training, which could compromise community trust and hinder effective emergency response. Together, these factors create a precarious environment for first responders, impacting their ability to protect and serve effectively.
Trump Encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol, putting Capitol police in danger.
"Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we're going to walk down, and I'll be there with you. We're going to walk down—anyone you want—but I think right here we're going to walk down to the Capitol. And we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women. And we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong."
January 6 Testimonies from Officers and their Families
"I was slipping in people's blood... it was carnage, it was chaos."
"I feel that Donald Trump is 100% responsible for inciting that attack."
Project 2025 wants to slash FEMA funding for natural disasters. JD Vance and most other Republicans voted against funding. TRUMP IS PUSHING LIES THAT THIS MONEY IS GOING TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
Project 2025 and FEMA
While Project 2025 doesn't call for Eliminating FEMA, it does call for moving the management under the Department of Interior, and making other huge changes to the program.
Project 2025 wants to change the way the federal government distributes relief funds. Currently, the federal government pays 75% (potentially higher for huge disasters), while local and state governments pay 25%. Project 2025 wants to flip that around.
FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program
Project 2025 seeks to privatize FEMA's national flood insurance program. This could be devastating for areas in Florida, for instance, whose residents are already having trouble finding private insurance companies who are willing to cover their homes.
FEMA is also responsible for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), nearly all of which is issued by the federal government. Washington provides insurance at prices lower than the actuarially fair rate, thereby subsidizing flood insurance. Then, when flood costs exceed NFIP’s revenue, FEMA seeks taxpayer-funded bailouts. Current NFIP debt is $20.5 billion, and in 2017, Congress canceled $16 billion in debt when FEMA reached its borrowing authority limit. These subsidies and bailouts only encourage more development in flood zones, increasing the potential losses to both NFIP and the taxpayer. The NFIP should be wound down and replaced with private insurance starting with the least risky areas currently identified by the program. (p. 153-154)
REMINDER: Project 2025 also calls for privatizing the National Weather Service and defunding the aircraft that flies into hurricanes. Storms like Helene and Milton will get much worse, and the public will know even less about it.
Project 2025 wants to EXPAND THE DEATH PENALTY and execute everyone on death row. So much for being pro-life!
Agenda 47 and expanding the death penalty for other crimes
Trump's Agenda 47 plans to expand the death penalty to drug dealers and human traffickers, arguing that Joe Biden and the democrats have turned American cities into "cesspools" of bloodshed and crime.
Gene Hamilton authored this section of Project 2025
Gene Hamilton is the Vice President of America First Legal, a legal action group founded by former Trump administration officials.
National Geographic and the Innocent People on Death Row
According to a study by National Geographic, since 1973, at least 200 people have been exonerated from death row. Do we really want to kill people if so many of them have been proven innocent?
Transgender and Pedophelia
One of the scariest things in Project 2025 for the LGBTQ+ community, and others, is what Project 2025 would have in store for transgender people. On page 5, it states, "Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology...the people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders."
And later in page 554 (yellow box), it says, "It should also pursue the death penalty for applicable crimes - particularly heinous crimes involving violence and sexual abuse of children"
Project 2025 could use this legislation to criminalize being transgender, and sentence those that are to death.
Enforce the death penalty where appropriate and applicable. Capital punishment is a sensitive matter, as it should be, but the current crime wave makes deterrence vital at the federal, state, and local levels. However, providing this punishment without ever enforcing it provides justice neither for the victims’ families nor for the defendant. The next conservative Administration should therefore do everything possible to obtain finality for the 44 prisoners currently on federal death row. It should also pursue the death penalty for applicable crimes—particularly heinous crimes involving violence and sexual abuse of children—until Congress says otherwise through legislation. (p. 554)
Trump called for The Purge. "One rough hour, and it'll end immediately"
Trump used Fake Firefighters to stand behind him at a Scranton PA Rally
At a Scranton, PA rally, Trump was caught using fake firefighters, according to the Times Tribune.
The Scranton Firefighter's Union clarified on Facebook that they were not involved with the "Scranton Firefighters for Trump" signs displayed by members of the public at the former president's campaign event.
The union has not publicly endorsed any candidate.