{"id":1048179,"date":"2024-09-20T14:47:27","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T18:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1048179"},"modified":"2024-09-20T14:47:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T18:47:28","slug":"icymi-trumps-project-2025-plans-would-devastate-rural-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-trumps-project-2025-plans-would-devastate-rural-america\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Trump\u2019s Project 2025 Plans Would Devastate Rural America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A new report<\/a> by the Center for American Progress details how Donald Trump\u2019s Project 2025 agenda to gut checks and balances and give himself unprecedented power would be devastating for rural communities across America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only does Trump\u2019s Project 2025 agenda<\/a> include plans to slash farmers\u2019 safety nets, gut crucial investments in rural connectivity, and cut off disaster recovery programs for small businesses \u2013 but it could also defund public schools and eliminate childcare options that rural communities depend on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Center for American Progress<\/strong><\/a>: Project 2025\u2019s Plan To Gut Checks and Balances Harms Rural America<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key Point: <\/em><\/strong>\u201cProject 2025 is a plan to gut America\u2019s system of checks and balances in order to enact an extreme, far-right agenda that would hurt all Americans. The plan proposes taking power away from everyday people to give politicians, judges, and corporations more control over Americans\u2019 lives. Here are specific ways that Project 2025 harms Americans in rural communities.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putting<\/strong><\/a> farmers at increased risk of financial harm and stunting their ability to grow: <\/strong>\u201cProject 2025 proposes eliminating the Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs, which \u201c[protect] farmers from substantial drops in crop prices or revenues\u201d according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The plan would also \u201cban farmers from receiving ARC and PLC payments the same year they also receive crop insurance indemnities,\u201d undermining farmers\u2019 ability to plant the next crop.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eliminating<\/strong><\/a> child care options: <\/strong>\u201cProject 2025 proposes to make this shortage even worse by eliminating Head Start, which\u2026 would wipe out a critical supply of child care in rural communities.<\/strong> A previous CAP analysis found that Head Start accounted for between 21 and 59 percent of all child care slots in rural communities across 10 states.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defunding<\/strong><\/a> public schools that serve rural students: <\/strong>\u201cProject 2025 calls for eliminating the U.S. Department of Education and the Title I program, which provides vital resources to schools that serve low-income students, including in rural areas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eliminating<\/strong><\/a> free school meals that disproportionately benefit rural students: <\/strong>\u201cHence, Project 2025\u2019s proposal to end the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP)\u2014which provides free school meals to those attending schools serving a student body wherein at least 25 percent of students are eligible for free- or reduced-price school meals\u2014would be an acute threat to students in rural America. Nearly 20 million students attending more than 40,000 schools in the United States are currently eligible to benefit from free school meals under the CEP.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undermining<\/strong><\/a> recovery efforts for small businesses from natural disasters in rural areas, which are more susceptible to extreme weather events: <\/strong>\u201cProject 2025 proposes to end the Small Business Administration\u2019s direct lending program\u2026 Doing so would be particularly harmful to rural communities that \u2018lack the basic capacity to access competitive federal [recovery] grants\u201d due to lack of manpower, financial resources, expertise, and time.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gutting<\/strong><\/a> rural connectivity: \u201c<\/strong>Project 2025 calls for repealing all unspent funds provided through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, otherwise known as the bipartisan infrastructure law (BIL). Rural communities have benefited tremendously from the law, including through upgraded roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, ports, and waterways. The BIL also provided an unprecedented $65 billion to deploy broadband in all communities and make internet access more affordable. Prior to the law\u2019s passage, rural communities were nearly 15 times more likely to lack access to reliable broadband than those in urban areas, according to the Federal Communications Commission. Thus, repealing the bipartisan infrastructure law\u2019s broadband investments would disproportionately harm people living, working, or going to school in rural America.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Limiting air travel<\/strong><\/a> service in rural areas: \u201cProject 2025 <\/strong>slams the Essential Air Service (EAS) program<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> which helps ensure commercial air carriers can serve small airports in rural communities. The plan blames EAS for \u2018distorting the commercial market\u2019 and calls for \u2018finally ending the program.\u2019<\/strong> Specifically, Project 2025 proposes allowing the market to dictate commercial service in all regions, including rural communities that would otherwise not be served in the absence of EAS.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new report by the Center for American Progress details how Donald Trump\u2019s Project 2025 agenda to gut checks and balances and give himself unprecedented power would be devastating for rural communities across America. Not only does Trump\u2019s Project 2025 agenda include plans to slash farmers\u2019 safety nets, gut crucial investments in rural connectivity, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nICYMI: Trump\u2019s Project 2025 Plans Would Devastate Rural America - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-trumps-project-2025-plans-would-devastate-rural-america\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-09-20T18:47:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-20T18:47:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-trumps-project-2025-plans-would-devastate-rural-america\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-trumps-project-2025-plans-would-devastate-rural-america\/\",\"name\":\"ICYMI: Trump\u2019s Project 2025 Plans Would Devastate Rural America - 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