Project 2025 is most of all a binder showcasing Donald Trump’s past and possible future appointees.
Lately, Trump or informed observers have suggested that possible cabinet appointees could include JPMorgan Chase chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon, BlackRock co-founder, chairman, and CEO Larry Fink, and North Dakota governor Doug Burgum.
What does this information suggest that we can reasonably anticipate from Trump in a possible second term? To have an absolute benchmark, we should compare this information to how a constitutionalist president would start his presidency.
We can flesh out this benchmark by starting with the end result, understanding the changes needed to get there, and considering the competencies needed to execute these changes and to execute ongoing operations.
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End result must be constitutional governments
If governments are to be constitutional and of republican form, the people must delegate few powers. State governments must have few, explicitly-enumerated powers, unlike now. The national government must be held to within its few, defined powers, particularly:
- Pass bills, execute laws, and opine on cases.
There must be no administrative state promulgating regulations or other threats of force. - Tax labor income, at a single rate, with no deductible and no deductions.
This is the only tax that takes the same fraction of liberty from each person. - Coin money, which must be earned, saved, and deposited before it can be lent out.
Using coined money, which is stored value, prevents boom/bust cycles and inflation. - Raise and support armies for at most two years.
Armies should be raised only when war is declared and rules-of-engagement cards are passed. Bases shouldn’t be maintained outside the homeland. - Provide and maintain a navy.
New generations of weapons should constantly be rapidly researched and developed, but never produced in significant quantities. Producing them would reduce economic strength and help enemy governments catch up. - Enact criminal laws only against treason and counterfeiting.
All other criminal laws are reserved to other jurisdictions. - Take property for public use only with just compensation.
No person shall be unduly deprived of property to give others health payments, income, or other privileges.
When governments’ powers are severely limited, as they were in America through 1894, individuals use more information to add more value and to better support others.
Change as applicable: immediately, as fast as possible, or by grandfathering
The fully-unconstitutional current departments are of the interior, agriculture, labor, housing and urban development, transportation, energy, and education.
In the remaining departments—of state, treasury, justice, commerce, defense, health and human services, veterans affairs, and homeland security—most all subdivisions or scope areas are unconstitutional. Justice is unconstitutional other than its rare treason or counterfeiting investigations and prosecutions. Health and human services is unconstitutional other its just compensation for past Medicare and Social Security takings.
All agencies and chartered organizations are unconstitutional, notably including the Fed cartel (money) and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (home lending).
A president must faithfully protect the Constitution, so he must only allow actions that he interprets correctly are constitutional. This is more than just his strong constitutional power, this is his serious constitutional duty.
Immediately, a constitutionalist president must stop all payments, including payments of salaries and payments on employment contracts, in all unconstitutional departments, agencies, chartered organizations, subdivisions, and scope areas.
As fast as possible without fire sales, he must demolish whatever remains. He must sell assets, including civilian equipment, foreign-based military equipment, buildings, and land. He must work to end contracts such as leases for foreign bases.
Also, he must repudiate debt, which Progressive politicians incurred in aid of Progressives’ rebellion against the Constitution and the USA. He must constitutionally make an exception on the debt owed to USA retirees. Money has been taken without just compensation throughout retirees’ lifetimes. Also then repudiating this debt to these retirees would be another, final taking, which they could no longer recover from by earning more.
Grandfathering will be needed to settle the existing obligations to make retirement health payments and pay retirement income. A constitutionalist president will cease adding further to these obligations, in exchange for ceasing to collect these payroll deductions. To keep paying these existing obligations, he will sell assets.
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He will take particular care to moot all regulations, which are unconstitutional. This will put customers fully in charge of their purchases, which will incentivize producers to add more value. This will make the promised payments pay for better products, and altogether, a better standard of living.
Appoint to constitutional positions, and contract elsewhere
Most current operations must be shut down. When an organization is closed, its people stop working there. Its assets and leased real estate get used more productively by creditors or buyers.
Such changes wouldn’t get made well by the people currently working in these operations, but instead should be made by specialists in shutdown and in asset-value recovery. Since the operations being shut down aren’t constitutional, these specialists shouldn’t be appointed but should just be engaged on contract.
A few current operations will continue for now. These badly need to be reorganized and made productive. Contracting, nominating, reorganizing, laying off, and managing are exercises of the executive power, which is vested in presidents.
Such transformation isn’t a task for today’s political entrepreneurs, who consume value, it’s a task for economic entrepreneurs, who add value. Elon Musk has shown with X that cuts can be massive. X now handles record-high usage even though Musk cut all but 20% of employees. Such further savings in even just the few continuing government operations can be considerable.
No government-crony finance specialists like Jamie Dimon and Larry Fink, and no crony-friendly government executives like Doug Burgum, need apply. Only an insignificant-few Project 2025 specialists might fortuitously have the economic entrepreneurship skills needed to best shut down unconstitutional operations or radically optimize constitutional operations.
Unfortunately, right now it’s looking like Trump will never constitutionally apply to governments his timeworn reality-tv signature line, “You’re fired!”
