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The warnings were there. It was in plain view. We were reporting on it. Others were talking about it, how Project 2025 was going to specifically target things like the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. I want you to watch. This is from August 27, 2024. Let's play it.
You know, the fact is the Republicans have put out a plan. It's called Project 2025. And people like Bill McKibben have written about this in The Nation. And it is a very detailed plan for how to dismantle our federal infrastructure. Things like getting rid of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which literally just keeps track of data around what is happening to our Earth.
They want to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency. We saw what a first Trump administration would do, rolling back almost 100 environmental rules, pulling us out of the Paris Climate Agreement. And what does a well-organized second Trump administration look like? If you want to know what it looks like, look at that Project 2025 document. It's very scary.
By contrast, what the Biden folks want to do is they want to keep delivering.
Then Donald Trump said, I know nothing about Project 2025, which, of course, he did. And then all of the reporting out there was trying to fact check people who said, no, here's what they're going to do. And then all the all the fact checkers and corporate news would say, but he's saying that he's not going to do those things. So we think that you're just being a fear mongerer.
It's like, no, this is what he's saying. He's going to. Well, here we are right now. He's ripped apart the NOAA. He's ripping apart FEMA. He's ripping apart all of these critical agencies in addition to, you know, ripping apart, you know, defense apparatus, the government shutdown. This is let me show you this. This is a Russ vote right here.
But talking about what Trump's real priorities are, which is changing the Rose Garden to a club. buying Qatari jets and things like that. Here, let's play this clip.
President is revamping the Rose Garden for a second time. He's overhauling a 747, spending billions of dollars when it's only going to use the Air Force One for possibly a year. Are you concerned about that spending too? We have a lot of administration priorities, and I hope what you've learned from our first term, this term, we need to spend in areas. We need ships. We need aircraft.
We need a new presidential plane that's been in the works and been delayed.
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