Project 2025 would jeopardize federal scientists’ independence and undermine their influence
Project 2025, the sweeping right-wing blueprint for a new kind of U.S. presidency, would sabotage science-based policies that address climate change, the environment, abortion, health care access, technology and education. It would impose religious and conservative ideology on the federal civil service to such an extent that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has, dubiously, tried to distance himself from the plan.
“The independence of science is being attacked across the board in this document,” says Rachel Cleetus, policy director of the Climate and Energy program at the nonpartisan Union of Concerned Scientists. “The importance of this science is that’s how we can ensure people’s health and the environment are being safeguarded.”
“Any attempt to reverse policies, any attempt to slow down this transition to clean energy, is putting us at greater risk” from climate change’s severe impacts, Cleetus says. She notes that the 2025 scheme targets the EPA’s—a bedrock of climate policy that identifies heat-trapping pollutants as a public health threat. But distorting or burying science does not change the reality of the climate crisis.
Project 2025 could also make it harder for U.S. schools to attract international students and for employers to hire them after their education. Visa holders make up a significant portion of master’s and Ph.D. students in the country’s engineering, health and science programs: among first-time, full-time master’s students, for instance, scholars on temporary visas exceeded U.S. citizens and permanent residents in 2022, according to. After graduation, many foreign students remain in the U.S.
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